My first strimmer / brush cutter

[hedgesparrow]

How do you find the DR? What's it like on brambles etc?

i had a dr and it was a awsome beast went through anything it died and then got a echo bearcat walk behind cheap its good and it will munch through most things so quick. did a mile of footpath today took just under the hour to strim and blow off the grass from pavement so quick and makes a neat job.

but if i was getting a new one i would have the self propeled DR with swinging head which you can put a blade on for doing saplings.

knock spots off the bearcat. sitting down over £1000 new. but you can do so much so quick brambles will eat them for tea. the string is 6mm.

[doobin]

That's what I mean, that is why I would find cruise control nice, because running flat out is not what I want.

 

In my car I have automatic and cruise control so don't bother asking me, and anyway a car is not a strimmer.

 

Generally when strimming you have a fairly consistent sort of material to strim then perhaps encounter anothe rpatch of something different, like the field I had the other day was 1 acre of gras and about 0.25 acres of bramble, the brambles were all one end.

 

I only said I thought the cruise on the husky was a good idea I have never used one and didn't say I had.

 

Ah, gotcha. Yeah, that would make sense. Trouble is it's not actually a cruise control, it's just a friction throttle lever like on a blower. So it would never be set right.

[tobimax]

This is the one I like. Dream to use and low vib.

Stihl FS460C-EM Petrol Clearing Saw