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Old 31-08-2003, 01:02 PM
Simon Avery
 
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Default Brushcutter - 2 or 4 stroke?

Alan . wrote:

Hello Alan

A The guy in the shop recomends 2 stroke "its what the
A proffessionals use" but he has Honda and Lawnflite 4 stokes
A available also.

I've not used a modern four-stroke, only the old ones with gimble
mountings and sumps before 2-strokes became effective. (1960's? 70's?
Older 'n me, anyway) and those were ruddy awful. Twice the weight and
you couldn't cut above knee height with 'em.

But to answer the "professional" thing, the trade tends to be mostly
conservative, with a few exceptions, and don't want to potentially
waste money on new bits of kit until they've seen them working well.
Some manufacturers "lend" new kits to some companies to get feedback
and promote the thing amongst the trade, but it's traditionally a
tricky thing to market new kit in the tree and garden industries. With
good reason, some people come up with chocolate teapot type ideas.

So anyway, just because it's not used by professionals doesn't mean
it's not good. It could mean exactly that, too.

OTOH, modern 2-strokes are well known, reliable, light and cheaper
than the new 4-strokes. The economy issue is not worth considering for
home use, only really becomes an issue if you're using it every day
for four months of the year, and even then it'll have to be
significant to make up the 100+ukp price difference.

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