Thread: Brush cutters

I recently bought a Tanaka 27cc brushcutter with wide handles. Actually used it for the first time yesterday. We didn't have grass before that. Too bloody dry. Great machine. Very smooth, sufficiently powerful, easy starting etc,etc, and it's not very heavy. 5Kgs
Don.

Tool of the devil.
Easier to have a goat

Not really a brush cutter, but I bought one of these the other day, to go with the rest of my Ryobi tools. Ryobi One+ 18V Brushless Line Trimmer - Skin Only | Bunnings Warehouse

Starting a whipper snipper has never been easier, quieter, or less smelly!

thanks guys,

I live on acerage. Battery stuff is brilliant these days .... But I find the batteries always die before I bet any use out of them. I like metal blades on brush cutters. I need to use it to clean up the blackberries growing under the fence wire. I also have some bushes that need to be trimmed (so maybe that hedge trimmer would do the trick). The pole saw would come in really handy too.

The issue is if all the attachements are crap .... I'd be better off buying just a decent normal brush cutter ... I'd rather something that does one thing really well, than 6things really badly and just aggravate the crap out of me

seeya,
Shane L.

NFI about your specific needs but I bought a Honda GX35 powered generic brush cutter a few years ago and it's doing well on my 1 acre block. The motor is bloody brilliant, quiet, clean, economical, light.

As DoubleChevron said, the attachments etc can make or break them. Back when I did that sort of stuff for a living, I found Tanaka or Shindaiwa were virtually bulletproof. Bit exxy, but you gets what you pays for.

Thanks Guys,

Tanaka or Shindaiwa ... Wow, you have a taste for the "good stuff" .... This thing will be used as rarely as possible. I HATE bloody brushcutters. Anywhere a brush cutter is nomally used, I generally use a Victa Super 600. They can't go under fence lines and around garden bed edging though.

seeya,
Shane L.

I don't think you will have trouble with the Thai manufactured motor they have been making them for a long time, I prefer Japanese motors myself as my edge trimmer the only Chinglish motor I have gives me more grief than the 3 other machines put together.