I have a couple of Makita items and usually bought spares easily from HOB (UK) who now no longer do mail order.
Looking on Makita's own site it seems to be impossible to find anyone, doing a search, that can sell me spares !!!
Where can you buy Makita spares form a Makita dealer. There are lots of online independents but none have the parts I want.
A month ago I spent £250 on a Makita cordless strimmer for edging in large gardens where noise is not appreciated. After modest use, the line shield is disintegrating, the extending handle and locking mechanism has failed, and it never bump feeds no matter how careful you are with winding line on the spool. At this price level for a battery strimmer I am appalled.
And then you can't get parts.
If only STIHL made a sensible quiet edging strimmer...Makitas spares back up is total rubbish.
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In May I spent £150 on a Black and Decker cordless strimmer which lasted 3 weeks of pretty light use.
Makita petrol kit is easy to get parts for but, to be fair the Makita electric strimmers and garden range are not for professional use, and it says as much in the warrenty. They are designed for 10 mins here or their for a few years, not hours a week. Not surprised they broke - I would expect maybe a month of use out of them.
If you MUST have quiet battery tools - you Need to look at ECHO, PEllenc or Stihl - Having trialed Pellenc I think they are the dogs B***** and are guarenteed to last in pro work - thats the market they are aimed at. (Speak to stu-eco garden maintenance on here, he runs pellenc kit).
Worth considering, you are looking at £2k+ to kit out with electric stimmer and hedge trimmer at professional grade equiptment.
Any less and you will get domestic grade which lasts no time at all
- I think at £250, if that is your ball park budget area, you need to be looking at second hand professional petrol strimmers.
See here ; good prices IMO;
http://www.richmondsgroundcare.co.uk/index.php/site/product/categor...
Hi David,
Thanks for the reply. Not knowing that much about Makita, I assumed all their products were aimed at tradesmen and similar, and a £250 strimmer would also be in this category. Now I know better !
Pellenc and Echo only seem to make 2 stroke machines, we need quiet !
Actually we have the cordless STIHL strimmer, I may try that for edging if there's no other options. We have a twin battery set up, and use the hedge trimmer and long reach trimmer - all battery powered, and very long lasting and effective they are, at least for the garden maintenance side of work.
Pellenc do not make any 2 stoke or petrol for that matter - the link included above links to all their electrical and near silent, products. Echo do make some battery powered tools, but they are seldom seen, and I do not know if they are "properly" available in the UK.
Their domestic grade tools are available from;http://www.thegreenreaper.co.uk/Hedge_Trimmers/Cordless_Hedge_Trimm...
however, the give away is in the "consumer warrenty" - I would imagine, (the sub £500 price point giving away aswell) that they would not last in regular use.
I suppose your best bet is if your budget allows, kit out with pellenc at £2-5k for a suite of tools.
Otherwise you need to explain to clients that you cannot meet their quietness needs, or arrange a suitable time to work with louder equiptment.
Andrew Baker said:
sounds like it's time to return the makita for a refund - if it's falling apart, you should be successful?
and while you're thinking on that, have a look at this lot
powertoolsspares
Sorry, I meant Pellenc don't seem to do an edge trimmer.
I was out in the rain this afternoon with a STIHL FSA 85 cordless strimmer and in fact it makes an excellent edge trimmer. It has variable speed and can run very slowly for accurate and very quiet edging. I never thought to try it before for edging before as it's fairly large.
The much smaller Makita will be going back for a refund, it has had modest use, just edging for a month.
I have looked at Pellenc in the past but what put me off was the very high prices and limited dealer network.