Anyone use single sided hedge trimmer and why do you think it's better than the double side?
Anyone use single sided hedge trimmer?
Alan0354
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20" is way to short for you!!! It is too short for me and it hurt my back using it.
Sounds like there is not much advantage of the single side!!!
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i run a single sides stihl with a 30" bar, i believe it is an hs85 or something like that, i have the scoop on the other side, its real easy to do hedges with it, but for doing shrubs its totaly useless, its much easier to use than a double sided one on flat long surfaces like hedges, and you don't have to clean up all of the clippings off the hedge because the scoop scoops them up and throws them to the ground. and yes it is more eroginomic (in my oppionion)
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you would be suprized at the weight double side long bar adds. i have one long bar single set and use it for hedges mostly. the rest is all double side
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So if I have a lot of boxwood that I trim straigh on the side and flat on top, the single side with longer bar is better?
There got to be something good about single side. I like the throttle handle better on the single side and longer blade.
Both my Echo HC151 and the Shindaiwa short reach articulate hedge trimmer only have 20" blades, it is just not long enough and I found if very hard to trim vertical.
There got to be something good about single side. I like the throttle handle better on the single side and longer blade.
Both my Echo HC151 and the Shindaiwa short reach articulate hedge trimmer only have 20" blades, it is just not long enough and I found if very hard to trim vertical.
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they work good you can get them in a 42 inch bar on a shindaiwa i think, they also scoop the clipping if it has a wing attatched to the bar so you dont need to teather the bush as much.
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The good thing about the single side is it's safer,the cutting teeth are always on the side away from you,if you ever slip off a ladder and hit your leg with the trimmer running,the business edge is on the opposite side from your leg.
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I've had this Husky for several years and am pretty well satisfied. Gets a little heavy but does a good on boxwoods and will do a passable job on anything less than 1/4" branches.
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we have several and other than long hedge rows, trimming shrubs is way better with double, but we have two single sided for cutting down grasses in the spring, safer that way cutting away from you etc
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Boxwood is consider hedges right? That is the one I have hard time cutting it vertically straight. I never really use a single side to cut for a period of time. I only use it for a few minutes and I felt it is better balance but the down side is it only cut one direction. Boxwood grow all direction and it need to be cut both direction and that's where the double side blade shine. But I have to give th feel and balance to the single side.
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