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The Continental Op

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122186362#Comment_122186362

Hope no one comes back with a bad review of it :-)

green daries

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122186190#Comment_122186190

I've the older version it's 15 years old ...…it's bomb proof........

Edit to say I paid a lot more for it back then

kollegeknight

sound thanks very much.

Siamsa Sessions

Any recommendations for a strimmer?

I was using my brother’s Mitox one for the last few years but it’s been repaired once too often according to a local handyman who recommended retiring it today.

I’d be using it only to clear grass/nettles from under the electric fence. Ideally it’d also do around the garden for the OH as her little battery one also gave up the ghost this week.

There’s dozens of options online and the more I looked the more confused I got. So I thought I’d ask ye good people on here.

I’d be open to battery or petrol and wouldn’t be using it for more than an hour-ish at a time.

Thanks.

tractorporn

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122208221#Comment_122208221

I've a battery one here, you can have it if you want. I've no preference for make but battery is only cut out for round a manicured garden.

emaherx

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122208339#Comment_122208339

Plenty of good battery ones, but you'd pay for them, I'm willing to bet the one you have was only ever intended for keeping manicured gardens.

Odelay

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122208221#Comment_122208221

Have a kawasaki since 1993, so 30 ish years old. My Dad bought it at the ploughing as a present for me when I was in school…. Still going strong. never use the plastic strings, always the blade. It eats stuff and doesn't throw stuff back into your clothes and face like the plastic string does. Don't know if they make them anymore.

bamayang

I’ve a Dewalt strimmer. Good job but would be more garden designed than for farm work strimming.

Say my name

I have this crush, shed, yard, parlour up 15 years now.

The last testing the vet was saying how a gate at the corner of the parlour would funnel the stock into the crush. We put one up and it worked a dream.

The way it was done till now there'd always have to be a body there to funnel stock into the crush while another came from behind them. The only other alternative was to put down the roller door on the parlour blocking off that. But that was never happening with stock in the pen.

So I got round today to making a way to secure a gate without wire or baling,fertiliser bag rope.

I used curved plates from brackets that used to hold shoulder wrenching levers for Orby feeders. Made the holes larger for new bolts. And welded the bolts to the pillar. The bolts are not protruding out from the pillar so hopefully don't catch stock. Nuts will be left on end of bolts anyway. Idea is the gate will only be fastened up when testing or loading cattle out of crush etc.

Odelay

Why did you hang it from the wrong end?

dzer2

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122210343#Comment_122210343

let the end dpwn in the slatt to hold the gate when unser pressure

Say my name

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122210353#Comment_122210353

That's it. The spud will go down on which ever slat gap to widen or narrow.

Lime Tree Farm

A Stihl FS81 here, father bought it 1980s, trouble free, lightweight, never had to be repaired, store it empty.

Lime Tree Farm

That end gate on the crush could be replaced with an old fashioned headlock gate. Very handy when you want to get an animal facing the other way, having a headlock at either end.

Suckler

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122208836#Comment_122208836

I've the dewalt one and the blade attachment as well. The blade is too heavy for the motor and goes too slow in my opinion.

I nearly f0cked it over a wall last week, keeps letting too much line out instead of locking properly. Pain in my hole with it.

bamayang

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122212814#Comment_122212814

I’d say you have something wrong with the spool if that’s the case. You knock the bottom off the ground (when it’s spinning) to let out more reel. It’s actually a great design. But shouldn’t be letting it out by itself.

Unless you were knocking it off the ground out thickness with it being useless 😂😂

Suckler

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122212857#Comment_122212857

Unless you were knocking it off the ground out thickness with it being useless 😂😂

I plead the fifth on this.

The Continental Op

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122212814#Comment_122212814

Have the DeWalt one and wouldn't dream of using a metal blade on it. Great for tidying, edging and very good for doing around trees because it doesn't have as much power as a petrol strimmer - can still damage bark if you are not careful.

Edit> The line problem can occur if its wound the wrong way on the spool.

Albert Johnson

I bought a new Stihl strimmer a few year's ago to replace a Stihl the auld lad had for about 25 years and had done a power of work. The new one came with an auto dispenser head and I didn't like it at all being honest.

Threading the cord into it was a balls of a round and the plastic head started to wear out from rubbing along the ground when doing the edges along curbs, walls ect. I bought the older head that you cut an individual length every time and I find it a far better job and it only takes a minute to thread in a new length.

I use cord that's like twisted licorice and if you could avoid fence posts, tree's, walls ect you'd cut a world of grass before it would wear out. Some of the cord that's sold is light and easily broken and you'd spend more time threading in lengths of it into the head than using the strimmer.

Wildsurfer

I see a new type of Strimmer head showing up for sale on my Google feed lately, looks like a large steel brush attachment you might see on a grinder for knocking rust off metal.

Base price

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122208675#Comment_122208675

My brother has one as well. He bought it in the late '80's and it's going as good as the day it was bought. I have a smaller strimmer a McCulloch (Husqvarna engine) MD2500 that is over 20 years old and it's fine for all but heavy briars/thistles etc. It is not suitable for a blade as the engine doesn't have enough umph. I must ask my brother what hp his Kawasaki is cause it eats anything before it either with the blade or wire.

funkey_monkey

Anyone tried this type of head?

RockOrBog

I bought a new strimmer a few weeks ago, Oleo Mac, well impressed with it great power in it compared to the old one, and came with the auto dispenser which I promptly swapped for the old type head. Blade with it as well which I would use for real heavy work. I do a lot of strimming around new trees and electric fences. The most thing that surprises me is how good it is on petrol.

TheFarrier

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122213088#Comment_122213088

I have an oleomac the last two years, mostly very happy with it but one issue I found which was my own fault is if it’s left for even 2/3 weeks with fuel in it it gets very hard to start. Was always aware it had to be ran empty before being put up for the winter but didn’t think it would get blocked up so quick over few weeks idle. Good machine tho

Base price

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122213107#Comment_122213107

There is fuel stabliser stuff that you can buy and add to the fuel along with two stroke oil to prevent the carburetor from getting sticky. My brother uses it mainly for over wintering but also uses it for towards the end of the season when you might not be using the strimmer/hedge trimmer often.

RockOrBog

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122214348#Comment_122214348

Hi would you have a link to this product? I have a new strimmer now, 2 stroke but I don't know whether to empty it and run it dry for the winter or start it every few weeks.

RockOrBog

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122213107#Comment_122213107

This one I got is 40 / 1 if you don't get the mix right it can be harder to start

wrangler

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122214348#Comment_122214348

The advice i got was that the new E10 petrol cant be left in the tanks of two stroke for any length of time.

I usually throw what's left in the 2 stroke can into the quad if its around more than a week

kollegeknight

this new petrol is a disaster. Wonder what the long term effects will be with engines.

Lime Tree Farm

Would Reddex 2- Stroke petrol treatment help? I stocked up on E5, but that won't last - I think it's being discontinued in July.