As with other things I have purchased, I got this to replace a cheap and not so cheerful competitor. The first positive thing I noticed was the balance of this strimmer in your hand - you will end up swinging this around in your garden for many hours so having one that is comfortable and does not tire your arm out after 5 minutes use is important. It can be used equally well left or right handed. The cutting head covers a good area and the cutting blade seems to be very effective, particularly on thick dandelions and similarly tough foliage. The cutting blade did not seem to snap as much as as the old one I had which reduces time in ...  Read the complete review

I'm not a keen gardener, by any stretch of the imagination, but do try to keep the sizable lawns at the rear of our house looking reasonably trim and tidy. The problem I have is that our back garden is split level, meaning there are effectively two separate lawns to tackle, with the top section being quite a long distance from the house. There is also wooden fencing around most of the garden, with some stonework around the sides at the bottom stretch of lawn. This layout means that our electric lawn mower can't mow particularly close to the edge of either stretch of lawn, which results in scruffy-looking long stretches of uncut grass all around the sides. Due to the ...  Read the complete review

A few weeks ago when I decided I couldn't put off mowing the grass any longer, I trotted off to the shed to get out the mower only to discover that sometime during the last ice age, commonly known as the winter of 2010, it had died. I debated whether to replace it but as I also have a manual mower and I don't have a huge area of grass to cut, I decided that I'd use that instead, which would be kinder to the planet and to my purse. This left me with the knotty problem of what to do about the large area of garden which has become rather overgrown and I decided that what I needed was a strimmer which would also help with those hard to reach spots where the gap was too ...  Read the complete review