Stihl gear is excellent quality, but the hedge trimmer mechanism - using gears and con rods - needs regular lube......I get many failures and the main one is the extended reach cutter with the angle head. They aren't always repairable due to 10mm needle roller bearings in blind holes (try getting those out ) and a replacement is £310 !
Best to look after them, I reckon. I had one come off hire a week ago and the head was full of water - goodness knows what the story was about that one.
A staging is a light duty mobile scaffold - a bit of a faff but so much safer than lying into a hedge!
John
So for the longest possible hedge cutter I should go for multi tool with extension?Buy with confidence! Its just the maintenance schedule which must be adhered to, and there's much more to wrong with a hedgecutter attachment than there is, say, with a strimmer.
The blades will need the odd sharpen, naturally enough, and the head has to be dismantled to get the blades out.
With chainsaws, folks don't sharpen the chain so the operating temperature goes sky high......and can actually melt the machine
If you do buy, go for the genuine Stihl oil.
John
Who would u ask to build it?For me accuracy is lost the longer the pole particularly when trimming a tight leaved hedge like privet, so I use some form of staging (as a diyer). But sometimes there is no real alternative
Custom built extensions have been made with a shaft length of just over 4 metres, this youtube video is from Australia but it should in principle be possible to do it over here.
Blup
I'd recommend anything from either Stihl, Husqvarna or Honda and avoid any Chinese stuff like the plague unless its for strictly DIY and light duty work.So for the longest possible hedge cutter I should go for multi tool with extension?
There is no less trouble with the all in one hedgcutter or another brand? They all need equal maintenance. I never remember maintenance. I am buying one this week so need to choose carefully. I mean I guess I would still have to rigorously maintain the all in all one or that could break too?
I force my hedge cutters through thick branches so really test them.
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