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hedgecutters from electric to petrol
As my 2 year old Stihl/viking hedgetrimmers have succumbed to being
actually asked to do something like cut hedges and been found wanting (they blew up, couldn't take the strain) I need to get something else. I've had two Viking 24" electric ones but the first only lasted 6 years and the latest never felt 'solid' enough to get the job done. The place were I took them to be mended said that a new pair were not going to cost me much more than the repair but I can't see the point in buying new ones if they have been improved enough to be unable to cut 400 foot of hawthorn hedge twice a year. I did look at the long armed ones but the balance is all wrong for me somehow, being only 5'4" I think they were aimed at someone with longer arms! Besides which how would you go along the top? I have to climb a ladder and don the tops (8' high) and the man in the shop couldn't help with that. He seemed to think they were good for the sides and the top only if you could get at the whole of the top from the ground. I picked up a couple of petrol ones but they seem very heavy and expensive! Willing to get some if they do the job but I'm frightened that I wouldn't be able to hold them for long if they vibrate. Not interested in small flimsy lightweight trimmers they just wouldn't do half the hedge as the cut in the early summer produces thickish growth of thorny twigs. Any ideas/expreineces? janet -- Janet Tweedy Dalmatian Telegraph http://www.lancedal.demon.co.uk |
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