written by on 09/03/2011
My rating appears at odds with all others. Perhaps because it is an older machine. I have had it for 16 years and it has been fault free and has run well, cutting beech and leylandii hedges. Last year it developed a starting fault which I traced to a split in the carb. diaphragm. I repaired this and it is now running again.
Because of its age I have been looking for a replacement and one useful point is overlooked in technical information; Namely the fuel/oil ratio. An oil rich mixture is choking when cutting close to a tall hedge in windless conditions.