On 02/05/2018 08:44, Chris Green wrote:
In uk.d-i-y Stephen wrote:
Hello,

Does anyone have anything good or bad to say about the Ryobi expand-it
range?

I was thinking about buying one some time ago but I never got around
to it! I thought I had seen it as a kit that included various
attachments but now that I look into it again, it seems all the
attachments are sold separately and are all £70 plus, so perhaps it's
as good a deal as I thought it was. Is it better to buy dedicated
strimmers, hedge cutters, and leaf blowers rather than a jack of all
trades?

I've had Ryobi Expand-It stuff for ten years or more. We have a 9
acre smallolding. I have strimmer, brush cutter, tiller, hedge
trimmer and pruning attachemnts. The most used are strimmer, tiller
and pruning. They're not top-notch professional but they're pretty
sound in general. I've worn out quite a few strimmer heads but they
do get really heavy use here. The pruning attachmenet is *very*
useful and the tiller is a nice step down from the big Howard
Ratavator we have.

For power I have both eletric and petrol 'heads'. The electric ones
haven't been all that reliable, the 2-stroke petrol was OK, the
4-stroke petrol I now use almost excusively is good.

I have the strimmer and the tiller too. They don't get heavy use but I'd
put them in the "reasonable value" category.