having sold and serviced these sorts of machines etc.,. for a good
many years, it's not until you use them in certain situations that
some of their design weeknesses show up.
my last brushcutter was a jonsered, now i'm not talking power units
i'm talking about the gear box end of the business. i know own a
shindaiwa.
the shindaiwa has a very annoying design fault with it's gear box
strandy type grasses wind up around very rapidly and very often no
matter what aproach i used, this event happens less rapidly with steel
blades fixed than it does when the nylon trimmer head attached that is
deadly for winding up grass around the head so tight and virtually
bringing the machine to a stop so you have to then stop and clear the
mess.
now even with a 12" 3 pointed star type steel head that i was using to
trim around young trees i needed to clear the mess between each tree
and in some cases twice for each tree, that realy messes up getting
the job done quickly.
i have used the jonsered in these conditions and yes it will twist up
at times but nowhere near as often as the shindaiwa, and never with a
steel blade on that i can recall.
so my opinion is if you are looking to cut longer thicker type
strandy/stringy grasses look to the design of the gear box. if i can
explain it to some degree the jonsered box has the flange that goes
between attachments and the box as a moulded part of the box, on the
shindaiwa this part is part of the rotating mechanism, and it is
around this and up around the box that the grass all twists up.
this may help others in future purchases, used in normal domestic
purposes where things are continually trimmed the shidaiwa will
perform along with all the others, but in rural or heavier type work
it has short comings.
enjoy the summer
len
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