Has anyone here bought, used, or have any opinions (good or bad) on battery powered grass strimmers?
Any recommendations welcomed. ~ ~KeithS ~ I bought a cheapo (40) one from Argos to do the grass at the allotment – and lived to regret it, as it had two batteries not one for its 30 minute usage time, each of which went really pathetic for the last five minutes and wouldn’t cut anything. It was a false economy. Even when new, it couldn’t cut nettles or really tough clumps of grass. After a year it was unusable, as the batteries wouldn’t hold enough charge for even five minutes of cutting. I spoke to someone else at the allotments who’d bought a battery strimmer (a more expensive one) and they had also noticed a significant power drop off. I tried discharging the batteries totally to try and get round the memory effect but it didn’t make much difference. Last year I replaced it with a tiny 70 petrol strimmer from McCulloch (B&Q sells them), which I should have done in the first place. It’s been brilliant (though must clean the plugs etc before using it again next week) and I would recom
