Only ten days before we were about to go away for a two month period our strimmer gave up the ghost whislt it was half way through mowing the rather small front lawn of our house. Not wanting to leave it for such a long time to become completely over grown I spent my remaining Dooyoo vouchers ona cheap replacement, the Black and Decker GL315 which has a 320 watt capacity electric engine. It needs to be plugged into the mains via an extension cable and this does mean that you have to be very careful with the trailing chord however it does have a system whereby the cable can be clipped into a holding device and then secured to your trouser belt so that it trails behind ...  Read the complete review