I have the Redmax version of this trimmer that I have a love/hate relationship with. I love it because the motor runs great, it seems to be well built and it can get to places that would be hard to get to otherwise. On the other hand, I find it to be extremely heavy. Its hard to get nice straight edges when your arms are trembling and about to give out. If you can hold it at waist level or below like the manual recommends, all is well, but it seems to defeat the purpose of having a tool like this if you still have to drag out a ladder to use it. I don't do alot of hedge trimming and my thought process was if I was going to have just hedge trimmer that this would be the type to get, but now I'm starting to think I should have gotten the smaller chain saw type.