strimmer not cutting/ working right

[Jimmy Jugerlugs]

11 hours ago, Muddy42 said:

 

 You need a 45cc machine which is over 2,000 watts.

 

 

So you think the only machine I posted link to will do the job is this one

https://www.toolstation.com/hawksmoor-52cc-48cm-petrol-brush-cutter/p66933?utm_source=googleshopping&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=googleshoppingfeed

Its rated at 52cc

[Muddy42]

4 hours ago, Jimmy Jugerlugs said:

So you think the only machine I posted link to will do the job is this one

https://www.toolstation.com/hawksmoor-52cc-48cm-petrol-brush-cutter/p66933?utm_source=googleshopping&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=googleshoppingfeed

Its rated at 52cc

 

It claims to be 52cc, but who knows.  By all means buy this object if you like gambling with your money and are prepared to throw it away after a few uses.

 

4 hours ago, Jimmy Jugerlugs said:

And dose that include Bosh?

 

I asked it on the last page somewhere but seams to be forgoten about

 

Not personally.  Bosch used to make good stuff in the 90s, gone downhill since.

[Jimmy Jugerlugs]

58 minutes ago, Muddy42 said:

 

It claims to be 52cc, but who knows.  By all means buy this object if you like gambling with your money and are prepared to throw it away after a few uses.

If you read the review there are some good ones and some bad one, the bad ones said there was no problem getting there money back though

 

 

58 minutes ago, Muddy42 said:

 

 

Not personally.  Bosch used to make good stuff in the 90s, gone downhill since.

Ha! reminds me of a pair of Doctor Martins that would last forever in the 90s. But are far worse then Lidl Aldi cheep boots now. only the price is still of high end for them

[Peter 1955]

Right Jimmy, first of all, put out a request on Facebook or use Google. You are looking for lads who advertise " Garden Clearance". Try to pick a reputable one, that won't tip the resultant waste three streets away as they leave. 

Let me tell you a story about machinery, and a man with a lot to learn. Once upon a time, I was made redundant, and having set aside a sum of money for the purpose, I went to a reputable Stihl dealer to buy a Kombi unit. Negotiations went well, until the salesman asked me what I intended to do with the machine. 

" Why, earn money of course "says I. 

Salesman immediately refuses to sell me the machine. Informs me that despite bearing the legend of a Professional brand, this is the Domestic model, and not designed for me to beat the living daylights out of it in a concerted fashion. I will thus break it quickly, and come back and yell at him for selling me something unfit for purpose. He then sold me the Pro model, for £100 more, but he was totally and absolutely right. 

Thus began a relationship with that dealer still going today. 

Hawksmoor, Titan and other brands sold by Screwfix, Toolstation, B&Q and the rest are one of two things. 

1) A lottery. A good one will last far longer than it has a right to do, and repay you well. I had a £20 9" angle grinder which endured years of abuse until I got a Stihlsaw. A bad one will refuse to start out of the box/second time you use it. The reviews on the sites will reflect this. 

2) Disposable. Bought for one off jobs which you will never do again, and as long as it last long enough to finish the task, you've saved hundreds of pounds over hiring a professional, or buying an expensive piece of kit. Tears come to my eyes when I realise that one of my Kombi tools has cost me a thousand, yes a thousand pounds. Love it to bits though. ( And for those who haven't done the sums yet, in round numbers, just short of £500 for the big battery Kombi, £350 for the battery in it, and £150 for the bit you then screwed into it ). 

Believe me, if I could get away with £150 from Toolstation, I would do. Draw your own conclusions. 

[Peter 1955]

22 hours ago, Mick Dempsey said:

This has got to be a wind up.

Ooh no, Mr Dempsey, no. Merely someone who can't understand why we're all telling him to spend thousands of pounds on Professional gear, or get the professionals in. That's because he hasn't yet been there, done that, and got the T- Shirt, like we all have. 

Someone in another sphere once asked me how I knew all the things NOT to do? 

That would be Experience. 

[pleasant]

On 24/10/2025 at 02:46, Jimmy Jugerlugs said:

Hay! I found on of these for sale on special offer 

 

Webb Webb WEPHT26 26cc Petrol Split Shaft Long Reach Petrol Hedge Trimmer

 

That is just a direct link to there the manufactures site, not where I saw if for sale on offer. But do you think it would be up to the job? or up to the job ish? or not? I mean compered to my battery powered BOSH?

Thanks

Webb are NOT a manufacturer. It is now a name owned by Handy garden machinery who are a distributor. They purchased the Webb name from Bosch over 10 years ago, who owned it back then (Bosch also owned the Qualcast and Atco names. The Qualcast name was purchased by the group that owns Homebase and Argos, and the Atco name was also purchased by the Handy group. The tooling rights and production stock of the then Atco and Qualcast cylinder mowers, were sold off without the brand names to Allett, who now market the old Atco Qulacast cylinder mowers as their own products) to put on stickers that they could attach on cheap chinese imported landfill machines- they aren't even made to their specification, just whatever they can buy that can be painted Webb green and carry a sticker. Their products are no better than anything you buy at toolstation, b&q, argos or screwfix, although if you need spares you may have slightly better chance with a Webb then a titan or any other shite makes they peddle, and Handy did at least import some spares with these machines- and they are pretty generic.

Edited 7 hours ago by pleasant

[spudulike]

I think it may be Mendiplogs from his spelling...sorry Jon if you are reading.