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If I had to use a weed eater enough to form an opinion between the brands I would lay down on the train tracks and wait for sweet relief.

I have both Echo and Stiehl and they are both great. They just start and run with no hassles. Everything else I have ever tried was junk.

I got the wife a Battery powered one from Home depot,a Ryobi.

It did not cost much and even got another battery for it.

She likes it.

The Shindaiwa has the 5 year homeowner warranty like it always did and Echo now owns Shindaiwa. My first Shindaiwa lasted from 2001-2019 with no problems except for ethanol gas problems. It quit running because something got sucked through the thin foam air cleaner big enough to cause damage to the engine (broke ring). The old one was aT260 model with straight solid steel shaft and a carrying strap. The new T262 also has a solid steel driveshaft but it didn't come with a carrying strap. I just bought another bracket used my old strap. The new T262 has a much larger/better air filter (foam filter over a paper filter) and a bigger engine.

https://www.shindaiwa-usa.com/

Make life easy as possible. Buy one of these. You can also attach a 14" carbide tipped circular sawblade to it.

Bought a Stihl on the basis of its reputation, was disappointed. Replaced it with a Home Depot Ryobi that I am very pleased with.

call me a cheap fugger.......me I'm frugal....

have two of these Remington's (MTD)

$80 shipped from Amazon......these things take a beatin'......

I run 'em 3-4 summers......beat the hell outta 'em.......

goes tits up .....buy a new one......I have a fairly large area I like to keep trimmed......

The money I save from buying a Still........I buy beer........

GOATS

I bought a Stihl weedeater in 2008. I beat the snot out of it on brush in addition to normal weedeating. Never been in the shop. Stihl chainsaw almost as long. Use Stihl synthetic oil.

My only gripe is they don't also make trucks. Probably not much money in trucks that reliable.

I buy the pre made gas-oil mix.

I buy my weed eater at Rural King. It's called Imitator Plus, and comes in a 2.5 gallon jug.

Works too.

now......that shidt's expensive.................

I've got a four-stroke Stihl 111 that sees the most use got a few other lighter Duty Brands around. If I was in the market for a new one I would take a very close look at the Makita 4-stroke for the price power and weight it seems to be a winner

a portion of my yard..........

those trees and shrubs are fenced in for the winter.........

sombitchin deer come in a destroy...........

grow 100's of sunflowers for the birds

This

I can get by on Avgas mixed with oil. Good stuff, keeps well and the last time I bought it was $3.80 a gallon.

Shindawia or echo good choices

My cousin went with that plan at his place a long time ago. It worked well but one day he looked outside and they were eating the roof off of his wife's Thunderbird.

Typical!

Now that everyone listed what they use. How many LF of use do you have for it weekly.... and is changing the head to a blade important to you, for brush cutting.

I cant stand a curved shaft myself... it just feels weird, as well it puts your legs closer to the line of fire.

I have around 10 full sized oaks in the yard to go around, 100’ or so of picket fence, and the yard/wood edge of a 1acre yard. I do use the brush cutter around the two farms, and cutting phragmites in the late summer for trails thru the swamp for deer hunting.

I personally have a Stihl FS90r. It sounds like a harley ha! Sometimes its beyond enough power (grass)... and sometimes I wish it had more (cutting over 1” trees with the blade head). Is it perfect, nah, cant say that. Would I buy it again, yeah I think probably so. Do you need this for the average suburb, housing development type house, no, I dont think so.

PS - I dont like the handle bar/joy stick type handles, just the old school straight shaft with the trigger.