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Scarifier advice

Hi everyone. I'm in the market for a new petrol scarifier and looking for reccomendations. 

I'm a big fan of Weibang. As I have there shaft drive mower which I think is great. So I've been looking at there intrepid WB384RB. But I don't know about laying out about £850 as it won't be used that much. At best about 20 houses Spring and autumn.  I've also looked at an Einhell GC - SC 4240P  Prices on them seem all over the place. But £300 is the cheapest I've found. I wonder though will it be up to the job and will getting one over something like the weibang be a false economy?

I'm open to all suggestions. Any advice will be very much appreciated. 

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  • PRO

    You'd be better off getting a old Eliet or Camon scarifier on Ebay for sub £500. Just make sure its a Honda engine and the blades are in good condition, as especially with the Eliet, replacements are very expensive. If new, then we've been very happy with our Stihl petrol scarifiers so far. We paid around £500+vat for them.

    • Thanks Andrew. I'll be buying new. I'll look in to the stihl scarifiers. What model do you have and do they have enough ooomph? 

  • PRO

    RL540 and yes good performance.

     

    • Brilliant. I've just been looking at them. Around £540 so in the sweet spot of my budget. Thanks very much 👍

      • Dayum! Where are you finding one at £540? I'm seeing prices more in the region of £715...

         

        • https://www.sam-turner.co.uk/products/stihl-petrol-lawn-scarifier-r...

          STIHL Petrol Lawn Scarifier RL 540 38cm
          <div class="grid-item large--six-twelfths"> <p><span style="font-size: medium;"><strong>Features:</strong></span></p> <ul> <li>Scarifying unit - The…
          • Nice one. Thank you for sharing.

            • No probs. My pleasure. My machine arrived today. Very happy with it

        • PRO

          £715 includes grass box. Rl540 good machine brought one in August. Perfect for the occasional user. Efficient machine. Could do with a swinging blade.

          • Grass boxes on scarifiers generally pretty useless in my experience, they tend to end up in the back of the shed.  Either the grass doesn't have enuogh momentum to fill the box, or if it does it fills instantly.

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