"Carl Hollomon" wrote in message
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I'm interested in buying a gas powered lawn edger. Any strong opinions or
experience with these? I'm leaning toward either the Stihl FC75 or the
John
Deere model.

I had a Stihl several years ago that wore out after two seasons. I don't
remember the model #, but it was similar to the FS75. I took it to a repair
shop and was told the cylinder sleeve was worn and it wasn't worth
repairing. I had always heard Stihl makes good products. It may just be my
bad luck. I now have an Echo 2400SB with trimmer and edger attachments.
I've had it for 8 years and it still runs as good today as it did when I
first bought it. I have 1/2 acre and I use the Echo extensively each summer
weekend. The only problem I have with it is it's a little hard to change
attachments sometimes, but I've heard they have that problem fixed with the
newer models.