very light and well balanced - less arm aches than even an electric in my opinion, easy to start, cheap.
Pull off line trimmer easy to use - I dont ever use the bump feed thing. I do use thicker 'yellow' line with it thou.
Had my McCulloch Trimmac for age - just got another for my mum!!

I had to buy a new strimmer to replace my 24 year-old strimmer that had unfortunately seized up. I came across this McCulloch Trimmac 210 Petrol in B&Q Colchester at a very reasonable price. When I got home and tried it out though, things changed. The first problem you come across is starting the machine. My old strimmer took 3 or 4 pulls. This one took 15 tugs for it to splutter into life. The next problem I found is that you can never find a comfortable position in which to stand and strim. The problem is that this strimmer is very poorly balanced in that you have to both pull up the engine and push down on the cutter quite tiresome and painful. This certainly wasn't a problem on my old strimmer, and neither was the throttle. On this strimmer, the throttle is far too twitchy and there seems to be only 2 positions; idle or max RPM. It is near impossible to get a steady in-between. Also, the throttle has a stupid trigger which always jams up every time you pull it. Other problems include the safety grass guard; it's smaller than on my old strimmer meaning your trousers will almost certainly turn green and it also has an annoying habit of moving clockwise around the strimmer shaft, leaving you to keep pushing it back every minute or two. I've tried tightening it, but it soon works itself loose. As there isn't a picture of this strimmer on this site, I can tell you that it has a curved cutting end, (like most strimmers these days) which is completely pointless and gives terrible kick back every time the cutter touches the grass. The final nail in the coffin is the build quality, and judging by it, I've concluded that my strimmer will probably fall apart next week!

Not for thick grass and as long as you are doing a smallish garden you should be OK. Not right for me though.
It is a good value machine but is not for thick grass/weeds.
Fine if you just use it for trimming and strimming normal grass.

I have wasted about £100 on this strimmer which will now have to be scrapped. Therefore it has cost me £50 per season. Am now looking at a Kawasaki which whilst is £260 comes with a two year warranty and has local back up. They have advised that they supply the same models to commercial operators using them all day every day during the growing season and they just keep going. I only used about 2 litre fuel in my Mc culloch and its U/S!

This McCulloch Trimmac 210 is my first petrol strimmer. It has run once properly in a year! Kick back is terrible, it will not stay running. Took it to repair center and was told to junk it as no good! Total waste of around £100.00 then!

Don't expect to harvest a field with this trimmer, that's not what it is designed for. It is light weight and designed for light use which suits my needs. Would I buy another one when this one dies? Probably but I might have a look else where as well. Given its price I doubt you would find a better alternative without spending at least another £20 - £40.
Over all I would give it 7/10 for performance, 6/10 for build and 10/10 for value.

The McCulloch Trimmac 210 petrol strimmer is not for serious use, and it can't be relied upon. Look at other ranges from bigger companies in the strimmer market. You can't always trust advice from the big sheds. Might be worth talking to service agents to get an idea of running costs etc before you buy : I wish I had.

I have now been through two of these. The first one had bits of plastic falling off the whole time (poorly fixed choke cover) due to poor design, so only lasted a month. The replacement had slightly improved the design, so plastic remained in place, however the machine is poor quality and the carburettor packed up after the first season. £60 repair bill later it lasted another season, but this year again it won't start up and now its a case of not wanting to throw good money after bad. BTW the repair shop stated they have had loads of these come into them and few are more than one season old. Not a long term investment.