Founded in 2008. The Landscape Juice Network (LJN) is the largest and fastest growing professional landscaping and horticultural association in the United Kingdom.
LJN's professional business forum is unrivalled and open to anyone within within the UK landscape industry
LJN's Business Objectives Group (BOG) is for any Pro serious about building their business.
For the researching visitor there's a wealth of landscaping ideas, garden design ideas, lawn advice tips and advice about garden maintenance.
Replies
hi I find in practice it's barely noticeable, the splatter is largely ejected the opposite way that's all, maybe walking along the edge the other direction than I would strim with an anti-clockwise one. For finer lawn edges I find my Ego STX4500 too powerful though, even on the lowest range setting (out of 3), perhaps the lesser spec models are better for that type of work, maybe it would be better with thinner line (2mm or less). So for edges I use my 15 year old Stihl FSA85 which is lighter and more controllable for fine work, other advantages are that it is less likely to flick stones or damage tree bark/lawn edging materials. And the trigger speed is very controllable all the way down to barely turning the spool, some cordless strimmers have a minimum running speed, below which they are basically off.
Thank you, I'm going to look into a smaller ego strimmer than yours, the st1400.
I used a petrol strimmer for a good few years, before buying an Ego ST1400. I found it brilliant- very controllable, and with 2mm line less prone to gravel flick etc. It did take a couple of weeks to get used to it rotating the other way, mainly walking edges the "other" way, but after that it felt really strange going back to using a petrol unit when using a customers trimmer. I would highly recommend the ST1400- no issues with it (or the 2.5 and 4Ahr batteries) in 4 years of lawn edging type use.
Hi, useful info thank you. It's the 1400 I'm looking at as I just need a small strimmer for lawn edges and small jobs, I already have a echo petrol. Thank you.
The one thing that you need to be aware of is that the bump cap tends to wear fairly fast (well I went through one in 2 seasons, using it everyday). Annoyingly at that time you couldn't buy the cap on its own- you have to buy the whole head. Now though I see that GHS sell the lower assembly/bump cap.
After 4 years, the Powerload push button started becoming intermittent. Easy for me to strip down the whole front end through, and with a clean up of the switch inside (that the button contacts with) back working again within an hour. As an engineer, I'm impressed how they have made the whole thing serviceable. Unlike some cheap Chinese and even some cheaper Stihl etc.
yes there's several different Ego spools, some may (or may not) fit more than 1 model of machine, never tried a Powerload one myself, I also have a very old Honda 56V strimmer, which was basically a clone of an early brushless motor Ego, still going strong but don't use it much as it falls in-between being a lawn edge and brushcutter without being ideally suited to either function, but ok for medium sized weeds etc. That one has a conventional spool you take apart to reload. Whereas the spool supplied with my STX4500 you pull the string right through so half the length is on either side, then turn the base so it winds it in, which is a bit difficult. However if you order a replacement spool by model number, it's a different one again, not a bump head but it auto-feeds new line as it breaks off, which I don't like the idea of