We all knew it was coming
Today I tackled a moderately unkempt yard. It’s a new account and I decided to take it. I busted out the hedge trimmers and was able to slice easily through 3/8” ish branches like nothing was there. I realize that in itself isn’t anything really impressive until you take into account the Ryobi hedge trimmers I was coming from. The Ryobi stuff would have had to chew through that stuff as the clutch would have most definitely been slipping. I then sliced through moss hanging from the trees without any stragglers, just clean shearing. Again, I don’t know if that’s anything to write home about but my old trimmers might have been less effective.
The edger has a Oregon gator style blade on it as I like the slightly wider edge it leaves and tosses the dirt away nicely the edger was strong and it was a breeze cutting the first edge of the year. In contrast the Ryobi powerhead would have been as capable and the attachment would have been much lighter to hold.
I don’t like the string trimmer attachment right off the rip. It’s heavy and doesn’t easily dart around like my Ryobi curved shaft one. Nothing bogged it and I felt like I could have tackled much denser growth fairly easily where the Ryobi powerhead might have had to feather the throttle to keep from going into protect mode but I’m not totally sure about that. I’m going to have to get used to it though, I had to bend over a little, and again, the thing is much heavier. I very well might run the Ryobi powerhead until it breaks, idk.
As of today the hedge trimmers are off to a great start, much much needed improvement. The other attachments, we will see, I’ve really been spoiled with their super light weight and didn’t appreciate it until I’m wielding tools three times as heavy. I might consider one of the stand alone Ego string trimmers with telescopic shaft as I’m 6’1” tall.
I’ve been told that the string trimmers with the motor on the head are a little weaker overall and also have a touch more weight than the attachment so I’ll be considering this over the next few weeks. The clockwise rotation is also a plus for me so we will see what I end up doing. I really should either learn to love the Ego attachments or run the Ryobi ones as they’re perfectly fine for almost everything and I’ll have the ego string trimmer attachment incase I hit some rough stuff.
Those are my initial thoughts on my new platform.
Today I tackled a moderately unkempt yard. It’s a new account and I decided to take it. I busted out the hedge trimmers and was able to slice easily through 3/8” ish branches like nothing was there. I realize that in itself isn’t anything really impressive until you take into account the Ryobi hedge trimmers I was coming from. The Ryobi stuff would have had to chew through that stuff as the clutch would have most definitely been slipping. I then sliced through moss hanging from the trees without any stragglers, just clean shearing. Again, I don’t know if that’s anything to write home about but my old trimmers might have been less effective.
The edger has a Oregon gator style blade on it as I like the slightly wider edge it leaves and tosses the dirt away nicely the edger was strong and it was a breeze cutting the first edge of the year. In contrast the Ryobi powerhead would have been as capable and the attachment would have been much lighter to hold.
I don’t like the string trimmer attachment right off the rip. It’s heavy and doesn’t easily dart around like my Ryobi curved shaft one. Nothing bogged it and I felt like I could have tackled much denser growth fairly easily where the Ryobi powerhead might have had to feather the throttle to keep from going into protect mode but I’m not totally sure about that. I’m going to have to get used to it though, I had to bend over a little, and again, the thing is much heavier. I very well might run the Ryobi powerhead until it breaks, idk.
As of today the hedge trimmers are off to a great start, much much needed improvement. The other attachments, we will see, I’ve really been spoiled with their super light weight and didn’t appreciate it until I’m wielding tools three times as heavy. I might consider one of the stand alone Ego string trimmers with telescopic shaft as I’m 6’1” tall.
I’ve been told that the string trimmers with the motor on the head are a little weaker overall and also have a touch more weight than the attachment so I’ll be considering this over the next few weeks. The clockwise rotation is also a plus for me so we will see what I end up doing. I really should either learn to love the Ego attachments or run the Ryobi ones as they’re perfectly fine for almost everything and I’ll have the ego string trimmer attachment incase I hit some rough stuff.
Those are my initial thoughts on my new platform.
