Makita DUX60 opinions

[NotSoFrank]

My Ryobi brush cutter is on its way out with a scored piston & cylinder. Am in the market for a new machine, and this Makita looks promising and a good price. I have Makita batteries and other kit already.

 

Most of the time I need something compact light and easily stored for lawn edge trimming around the house. But two or three times a year I need something powerful to maintain land on the family farm. Generally we’d use 2 stroke machines, stilhl chainsaws, tanaka hedge clipper etc. And work in places without access to 240v power for days at a time (but go to a house with power for lunch & dinner). Reliability is absolutely key for those days, can’t afford downtime. 2nd most important thing is performance; need something that is efficient at its job. I imagine the brush cutter would get 2-3 hours use on those days, probably with an opportunity to charge batteries half way through at lunch. Will need to handle think brambles and small (

 

Although I only need a brush cutter right now, I like the idea of a multi tool to add possibly a long handle hedge trimmer or cultivator in future.

 

Any opinions on the DUX60 or other recommendations?

[Jwoodgardenmaintenance]

On 10/09/2019 at 12:52, NotSoFrank said:

 

My Ryobi brush cutter is on its way out with a scored piston & cylinder. Am in the market for a new machine, and this Makita looks promising and a good price. I have Makita batteries and other kit already.

 

Most of the time I need something compact light and easily stored for lawn edge trimming around the house. But two or three times a year I need something powerful to maintain land on the family farm. Generally we’d use 2 stroke machines, stilhl chainsaws, tanaka hedge clipper etc. And work in places without access to 240v power for days at a time (but go to a house with power for lunch & dinner). Reliability is absolutely key for those days, can’t afford downtime. 2nd most important thing is performance; need something that is efficient at its job. I imagine the brush cutter would get 2-3 hours use on those days, probably with an opportunity to charge batteries half way through at lunch. Will need to handle think brambles and small (

 

Although I only need a brush cutter right now, I like the idea of a multi tool to add possibly a long handle hedge trimmer or cultivator in future.

 

Any opinions on the DUX60 or other recommendations?

 

You could buy a stihl km56 unit for roughly the same price as the unit and the attachments are the same sort of price and if you don't use it much run it on aspen 2? ? They'll be a lot more torque than the 36v tool aswell 

 

Jack 

Edited September 12, 2019 by Jwoodgardenmaintenance
Wrong spelling

[NotSoFrank]

Thanks for the reply Jack. As best I can tell, the Stihl unit and accessories are almost 50% dearer than the Makita equivalents in the places I looked. I can’t find torque numbers listed but the Makita is 900w and the Stihl 800w. Although I’m no expert if you can compare a battery and petrol unit as simply as that.

 

Edit: my bad, Makita is 600w. Ok that makes things easier.

[scbk]

The only thing with Makita, is they don't do very big batteries (or atleast not that I've seen)

[Jwoodgardenmaintenance]

1 hour ago, NotSoFrank said:

Thanks for the reply Jack. As best I can tell, the Stihl unit and accessories are almost 50% dearer than the Makita equivalents in the places I looked. I can’t find torque numbers listed but the Makita is 900w and the Stihl 800w. Although I’m no expert if you can compare a battery and petrol unit as simply as that.

 

Edit: my bad, Makita is 600w. Ok that makes things easier.

If you look on powertoolworld the dux60 is £199.99 &  on F R Jones @Jonesie the stihl km 56 is something like £186 and all the makita attachments are nearly the same price as stihl and personally I'd rather have petrol over batteries due to working in different weather condition plus the cold damages batteries aswell

 

Jack 

[NotSoFrank]

The KM94 is £258 inc vat on FR Jones if I’m not blind, but even so this seems close enough to the Makita that there is no justification now for the battery unit. The maintenance and noise of a two stroke is not an issue for me.

Ok I much further along with my decision making now, thanks for all the advice!

[Stere]

Dux60 is £151 here:

 

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Electric motors  offer better torque i think than similar sized petrol  eqivalent

 

 

Makita do 6ah battery so could have 12ah total but the 5ah ones arer alot cheaper than the 6ah.

 

 

Im guessing  from a try using a sthil battey trimmer: HLA85 (unsure of size of motor in this as not in spec?) the makita cordless version may be about  as powerful as  a 900w KM94 but not as powerful as the more powerful combi stihls engines in range.

 

 

 

 

 

I have the short reach duh601z trimmer and its very good. Don't know about long term durability yet though compared to petrol.

 

 

 

Edited September 13, 2019 by Stere

[scbk]

9 hours ago, Stere said:

Makita do 6ah battery so could have 12ah total but the 5ah ones arer alot cheaper than the 6ah.

Is the machine in series or parallel?

 

If it's 2x18v batteries you'll get either;

18v 12ah

or

36v 6ah

 

I suspect it's the latter?

[Stere]

The second I think

 

They do a backpack also ?

 

https://cpc.farnell.com/makita/bl36120a/36v-battery-back-pack-built-in/dp/TL19594?mckv=sMsrSed6C_dc|pcrid|224680288544|kword||match||plid||slid||product|TL19594|pgrid|48556615353|ptaid|pla-371191364796|&CMP=KNC-GUK-CPC-SHOPPING&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI-4zk5tXO5AIVgrTtCh0gvAuVEAYYASABEgK81vD_BwE

 

Seems abit pointless lugging a 6kg  backpack around when swapping batterries over only takes a few seconds unles you want to look like a ghostbuster ?

 

 

Edited September 13, 2019 by Stere

[scbk]

Husqvarna do a "small" size backpack at 15.6ah, 7.9kg.

To be honest you don't feel the weight as it's on your back, and the harness is so good. Means there's no battery weight on the machine so that's lighter on your arms.