Battery powered trimmer recommendations?

cdaigle430 · Apr 29, 2020

I am a huge Milwaukee owner having about 30 battery M18s and M12s and 10 corded tools. However I am also a huge Ryobi fan when it comes to the 40v battery operated trimmers and its attachments. They have more options and are as reliable with its trimmers as the Milwaukee line up.

coobie · Apr 29, 2020

Echo or shinadawa trimmers.

Alan W. · Apr 29, 2020

We have the 80 v Kobalt and love it. Have the brush cutter and limb saw attachments also have the 80 v chainsaw.
I got rid of my gas trimmers after purchasing this.

EddieWalker · Apr 29, 2020

I went out to my food plot to check on my game camera this afternoon and it's all pretty overgrown. I've seen quite a few snakes lately so I didn't want to walk through the tall stuff, so I used my cordless weed eater. It's so easy to use that it was a pleasure to clear a path to the camera. I always wear ear plugs when using tools, but it's so quiet that I didn't need to use them!!!

kenmbz · Apr 30, 2020

I haven't purchased any Ryobi or Kobalt in years. Never had any of them last me more than a year.
The Makita and Milwaukie have always held up. Only have plug in Dewalt, but no problems so far with those either.

jjp8182 · Apr 30, 2020

Have a Makita as I already had other tools that use the same batteries and haven't had much in the way of complaints. The nice thing is they seem very dedicate to their 18V battery interface, to include using batteries in pairs to effectively have 36V tools. .....and they look to be coming out with a battery backpack that holds 4 batteries and can support either the single or dual battery tools.

Makita aside, the other brands/battery systems are also worth looking at (I also have some Milwaukee tools) but I would recommend looking at the variety of tools that use the same battery, the total run time that can be achieved (either through battery sizes available, ability to operate as a plug-in, or availability of a backpack battery/power source) as the batteries are generally where the cost will start running up.

May also be worth looking at what type of promotions the company runs in the way of reduced prices (personally a big fan of how Makita will run promos that include an extra sets of batteries as I've leveraged that to good advantage).

RSKY · Apr 30, 2020

Thanks to all who have commented on this. My sister is 5' 4", that's what she says, and I told her to go to stores and hold the trimmers and see which fit her better. She and I had never heard of the EGO brand and she will give it a good look.

Once again thanks to all who have taken the time to comment.

RSKY

EddieWalker · Apr 30, 2020

Be sure to hold it with the batteries installed. Huge difference in weight with or without them.

bullbreaker · Apr 30, 2020

EddieWalker said:
Be sure to hold it with the batteries installed. Huge difference in weight with or without them.

Thats and excellent recommendation . I have held them both ways and definently a big difference .

This site here sells EGO , some with even a blower thrown in however like Eddie suggests you wont be able to hold it and get a feel for it . Unless you held it at the big box stores and bought it from here cheaper .

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