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Welcome 🙏 to the dark side (green side)
Stihl may do a package but stock AINT been readily available of late
the plug in Isn't as popular as I'd of thought. The cable gets in the way for me I prefer the push in battery hedge cutters having said that my 200 blower is on a cable snd battery in a pouch. My 200 chainsaw I used today and love it
Don't want one of those cables in the way. The way I spin hedge cutters around.
I have got a kma135r on back order to replace my petrol kombi km130r. I'll be saving my km130r for aggressive stuff.
Got three battery hedge cutters last year, love'em.
Cheers guys....which long reach hedgecutters though? Do you use kombi attachments with the battery?
Also would the 300 battery be worth getting? Do a couple of 200s last the day!?
the new HLA135 long reacher is on my list for when the hedge cutting starts again. As for normal length hedge trimmers, i use the slot-in battery type for certain jobs but the more powerful cabled machine for others, where the faster work rate means I can tolerate the cable. I use the AP100 batteries in the slot in hedge trimmers as they are lightest but an AP300 in a belt pouch harness on the cabled trimmer as the increased weight of the larger capacity pack is not an issue there. On the long reachers the AP200 pack provides the best balance in the HLA65 and AP300 in the HLA85 as it goes some way to counteract the front-heavy nature of this tool when telescoped out
I always reckon the 300 is the best bet..... the extra weight doesn't seem a problem to me. The 100 is about £100 and for an extra £80 you get 3x the capacity.
The AP100 is pretty useless in the higher power draw tools but at 0.9Kg compared to 1.8Kg of the Ap300 it suits the HSA86 trimmer well. Runs for about an hour. I have several. Got a lot of the Ap300's and the old AP180s which despite the name are not far off the capacity to the AP300's. I mostly use these in the stihl battery lawnmowers which can empty them in minutes if the going is tough. There is an AP300S battery available but is expensive. Horses for courses
How long ( minutes) does the battery mower last, doing say weekly cuts? On a ap300
hi I don't tend to do any weekly cuts but on the mossy country type of lawns cut every few weeks I might get as little as 15 minutes run time from an AP300 in the RMA448TC Mower. I have also been using a RMA 2 RT Mulching mower which is a really nice little machine. The amount of time saved from not stopping to empty clippings is great. That one seems to run for a bit longer on a battery to the collecting model. For the finer type of lawns I prefer to use my Bosch cordless mowers
That bloody moss is a pain for me at the minute, trying to upsell treatments to make my life easier and get a better lawn for the clients
To be honest moss is green enough and seems to thrive better than actual grass in our climate. A lot of the "lawns" i do in our rural area are infested with clumps of daffodils, snow drops etc and fruit trees and the like dotted around, you are never going to win against the moss no matter how much scarifying and treating is done
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