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What’s the life expectancy of a strimmer bump head?

Posted by Andrew Betteridge on May 11, 2018 at 10:32am in Machinery

How often do you replace strimmer bump heads?

I have recently replaced one after the button fell off and I am trying to determine if this fell off partly to abuse on my part running it too close to the ground, particularly on hard surfaces.

Andy.

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    Richard Gadsby May 11, 2018 at 12:48pm

    What head are you using? Mine wear out but don’t  fall to bits!

  • Jon Ward May 11, 2018 at 5:13pm

    The biggest problem I get is they get harder and harder to put back together when putting fresh line in and I stand cursing them. It has meant to run close to the ground, mine wears fairly quickly if I am using it on pavement under a hedge but one has never fallen apart.

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    Progreen Weed Control May 11, 2018 at 5:35pm

    ..might need to ask Graham Wright on a similar thread !.....

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    Richard Gadsby May 11, 2018 at 5:58pm

    I must use more than a lot of people on here! It’s 2 mins to whip it out and reload the spool that’s there but the bigger ones (stihl 40-2 or 46-2) are easyto reload

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    Andrew Betteridge May 11, 2018 at 6:28pm

    It is a 36 volt Makita running on twin 18 volt batteries, I took it into the local garden machinery suppliers part department and asked for a replacement head.

    The parts guy asked if I wanted another Makita head head, to which I replied no, as I have destroyed this one, so he sold me a Efco head saying “you’ll like this one, you reload it without taking it apart”.

    I have been considering how I have been using the machine and one bad habit may be tapping the head at full revs rather than throttling it back to the slowest speed, also I have been tapping it on hard surfaces to avoid digging a hole in the grass. Is there room for improvement there?

     Andy 

  • Paul Baillie May 11, 2018 at 9:21pm

    I’ve got the Stihl combi and it’s now three years old. I find if you bump it hard then LOADs of line comes out, gentle tap, at medium speed, seems perfect.

  • Graham Wright May 11, 2018 at 9:54pm

    Although I don't wear them out too often I do see them as a consumable item really. I used to be more careful with them, but now not so much. Might be why mine is stuck on on one of my strimmers :)

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      Richard Gadsby > Graham Wright May 11, 2018 at 10:12pm

      Better that than falling off at random like I had last year! 

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