Need new line trimmer - recommendations please.

[Coldtopper]

Outsource it !

[Blackhelmo]

Just buy a a Honda straight shaft. They are 4 stroke and no fuss start. Shindaiwa is a great brand, tough as teak. As far as I'm aware, they aren't making shindaiwa anymore. I have used shinnys and Hondas for the past 15 years in the turf industry, all straight shafts and plenty of grunt.

[spanner039]

Just buy a a Honda straight shaft. They are 4 stroke and no fuss start. Shindaiwa is a great brand, tough as teak. As far as I'm aware, they aren't making shindaiwa anymore. I have used shinnys and Hondas for the past 15 years in the turf industry, all straight shafts and plenty of grunt.

Who told you bout shindawas?

[Blackhelmo]

Who told you bout shindawas?

The rep from powerup lawncare products PLP ( grip sake and sons) the Maruyama company took them over.

[mrbluu]

Outsource it !

I want to....

[Jazz18]

I've decided I want a line trimmer for father's day. (Promise this will be the last time I ask)

What are tbe differences betwen the 2 modeld and which one hould I get?? Or is there any other recommendations.

Thanks

http://allpower.com.au/product/shind...r-brushcutter/

Or this

http://allpower.com.au/product/shind...t-brushcutter/

Pretty much anything Japanese is good in brushcutters. Shindaiwa, Echo, Tanaka are all good. Kawasaki make good machines too if you can find them but they can be a bit more expensive than others. I bought an echo a couple years back and it has not missed a beat. I've got a mate that has a Kawasaki that he's had for 20+ years and starts first or second time every time.

[mrbluu]

So I decided to splash out and get myself a new mower and line trimmer for father's day.

I ended up getting talked into buying the 230 over the t22. The guy said it was better components as the 230 was the bottom end of the commercial series and the t22 is the best of the domestic stuff. Apart from the getting used to the straight shaft spinning the other way compared to the other line trimmers I've used, so so happy with the purchase.

The guys also talked me out of spending too much on a mower. Ended up going with a supaswift with a kholer engine. So far happy with purchases.


My budget was $1000 and I ended up spending $880 or something like that.
http://www.mightymowers.com.au/supas...kmc-p-406.html

[Ferrins]

Fresh fuel is the key bluu as homeowner people buy commercial but tend to use stale fuel.

[mrbluu]

Fresh fuel is the key bluu as homeowner people buy commercial but tend to use stale fuel.

How long before fuel gets stale??

[Ferrins]

Mixed 6 weeks
Petrol 3 months
Just don't be the knob that buys the commercial unit and fills up the 5 litre of 50:1 and then takes a year to use it and wonder why it becomes unreliable. A tradie will basically have new fuel weekly and mix every second day.

[Ferrins]

Or you can be the total bell end and fill up the premade 50:1 at the local servo which has already been probably sitting for 6 months.

[Dotty]

There's a trick to preventing fuel going stale.

You do my yard every second weekend, then Grunt's, then Virge's, then Noren's, then Golfwhang's, then ...

[mrbluu]

Mixed 6 weeks
Petrol 3 months
Just don't be the knob that buys the commercial unit and fills up the 5 litre of 50:1 and then takes a year to use it and wonder why it becomes unreliable. A tradie will basically have new fuel weekly and mix every second day.

Guilty as charged

There's a trick to preventing fuel going stale.

You do my yard every second weekend, then Grunt's, then Virge's, then Noren's, then Golfwhang's, then ...

I don't know what u have been told be I don't cut my mate's grass

[Grunt]

Mine needs doing mate

[mrbluu]

Mine needs doing mate

Happy to sell u some premixed 2 stroke petrol.

[Grunt]

Mines 4 Stroke :P

[Dotty]

Mines 4 Stroke :P

You should convert to bio-gas.

[Grunt]

Would burn out the valves, the stoichiometric explosion is too high.

[mrbluu]

Shindaiwa, I sell Stihl, Honda and echo. the $199 Stihl one isnt that bad, and if that's your budget and you just want to clean up your garden, you can't really go wrong.

fWIW our hire fleet is all Shindaiwa.

If anyone from Melbourne needs something in the power equipment area. I will pretty much do it for cost. Drop me a pm and ill send you the link for our website.

So glad u put me onto the shindaiwa!!

Been using my BIL's Stihl FS38 and this thing craps on it. So much more power. It just rips through all the buffalo and Kikuyu grass that we have here. There are parts of edging at my place that hasn't been seen for years.

[spanner039]

So glad u put me onto the shindaiwa!!

Been using my BIL's Stihl FS38 and this thing craps on it. So much more power. It just rips through all the buffalo and Kikuyu grass that we have here. There are parts of edging at my place that hasn't been seen for years.

Good man Bluu !!!!!

[mrbluu]

Good man Bluu !!!!!

Still got to get used to the head spinning the other way!!!

[Ferrins]

Like a flushing toilet in America.

[spanner039]

Still got to get used to the head spinning the other way!!!

What way does it spin? Thought they all went the same - clockwise?

[goughy]

I thought mine went anti.....

[mrbluu]

What way does it spin? Thought they all went the same - clockwise?

I was advised that the bent shafts ones turn clockwise like my Ryobi and my BIL's Stihl and my straight shaft goes anticlockwise.