Jammys Stihl long reach hedge cutter mod

[Pat Ferrett]

After losing a tooth on the hedge cutter last week I rang around for a replacement head and F R Jones worked out cheapest and postage was free if I ordered from their web site.

I rang the order in at 9 yesterday morning and it arrived today at 12 and to my surprise it came with a length of shaft for the combi system , after giving it thought I remembered that I had an old hedge cutter in the container up the yard so after much digging around I found it in the corner, it was replaced when the shaft started to get hot so the question on my mind was could I make the shaft for a combi system fit directly onto the power head giving me a short reach hedge cutter and the answer worked out to be YES:thumbup:

[Johny Walker]

had 1, of those short 1,s for years ,very handy

[Pat Ferrett]

had 1, of those short 1,s for years ,very handy

 

Thats abit of a random comment Johny ! but I have heard its not size that counts its what you do with it.

 

Anyway what do you think of the hedge cutter ?

[easy-lift guy]

Looks great to me. Your vendor F R Jones came through with flying colors.

easy-lift guy

[eggsarascal]

Thats abit of a random comment Johny ! but I have heard its not size that counts its what you do with it.

 

Anyway what do you think of the hedge cutter ?

 

Thats done me, nearly spat me beer out :lol:

[Pedroski]

After losing a tooth on the hedge cutter last week I rang around for a replacement head and F R Jones worked out cheapest and postage was free if I ordered from their web site.

I rang the order in at 9 yesterday morning and it arrived today at 12 and to my surprise it came with a length of shaft for the combi system , after giving it thought I remembered that I had an old hedge cutter in the container up the yard so after much digging around I found it in the corner, it was replaced when the shaft started to get hot so the question on my mind was could I make the shaft for a combi system fit directly onto the power head giving me a short reach hedge cutter and the answer worked out to be YES:thumbup:

 

Jammy, we did a similar thing a few weeks back. We took an old strimmer, shortened the shaft and fitted a spare hedgecutter end. Only problem is that it doesn't fold in half very well.

[Pedroski]

As for the hot shaft - are you sure it didn't just need greasing up?

[Pat Ferrett]

No ped it was passed it, I have met a few guys in the trade that didnt know the heads needed to be greased though.

[Pat Ferrett]

Jammy, we did a similar thing a few weeks back. We took an old strimmer, shortened the shaft and fitted a spare hedgecutter end. Only problem is that it doesn't fold in half very well.

 

How did you retain the square portion on the ends of the drive shaft ?

[Pedroski]

How did you retain the square portion on the ends of the drive shaft ?

 

I cut the drive shaft down to correct length and carefully ground a square end using a bench grinder. Flat file will do the job. Just copied what was already there. Works well.