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- From: langston@langston.cs.utk.edu (Mike Langston)
- Newsgroups: misc.consumers
- Subject: Re: Weedeater recommendations
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- Date: 28 Jul 92 22:18:21 GMT
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- Reply-To: langston@langston.cs.utk.edu (Mike Langston)
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- grover mccoury asks:
-
- > I am seeking recommendations for good, reliable *gas-powered*
- > Weedeaters. A friend of mine suggested Poulan brand. Anybody
- > have any other suggestions?
-
- a couple of thoughts
-
- 1) make sure the nominal manufacturer is the real manufacturer
-
- a coupla years back, my father-in-law decided to buy me the best
- gas-powered string trimmer he thought he could find, and chose
- lawn-boy because of their mower reputation
-
- a very bad choice -- the thing failed after two weeks, and no
- one at the dozen or so repair places i called would even touch
- a lawn-boy trimmer -- turns out that lawn-boy trimmers are made
- by some outfit called ryan, not by lawn-boy
-
- 2) don't buy a brand X trimmer just because you have a swell
- brand X something else
-
- when i purchased a replacement, i made sure the name matched
- the manufacturer -- many years of faithful service from my
- stihl chainsaw induced me to check out stihl trimmers, and
- sure enough only their big models were made by stihl (their
- small models were made by someone else)!
-
- not smelling a rat, and needing a big model anyway, i bought a
- big stihl -- even after my dealer (and i) tinkered for hours,
- i am still unhappy with its carburetion -- my dealer says that
- stihl's trimmers are the best and that they just goofed on their
- carbs -- but look, they've made good carbs for their saws for
- years -- i think stihl has simply used its chainsaw reputation to
- build and market a slightly-less-than-absolutely-top-of-the-line
- trimmer myself
-
- part of it may be that i'm so spoiled by the reliability of my
- stihl saw (sob, they've stopped making the 028) that i'm too
- quick to notice flaws in their string trimmers :)
-
- i have heard but cannot confirm that shindawa makes a good
- trimmer -- perhaps another reader can comment on that
-
- -- mike
-