To that point she uses both Felco and ARS hand pruners – plus a short Gardena (8824-U) cordless trimmer. Her take on this is that you and the shrubbery are better off with hand trimming that is more selective – and allows you to open the plant up to receive better sunlight. Anyway – she likes them all – even though I was chided that powered hedge trimmers are not a good tool to use if you want to maintain healthy bushes. I think the Leaf blower had been superseded by a new model soon after I bought it. I bought her a suite ( 2726-20 Hedge Trimmer, 2728-20 leaf blower, and 2725-20 string trimmer) of Milwaukee cordless tools for last Christmas. Thank you to Milwaukee for the test sample. Note: Yes, everyone should wear safety glasses when doing this kind of work. I can definitely see the use in a tool like this if you had a large number of bushes or a large hedge to prune. We could have done the job by hand but it would have taken us 3x as long. The only time I stalled it was when I was doing something I shouldn’t have been - cutting something larger than the 3/4″ capacity. Final thoughtsĪ hedge trimmer is not really a tool I’ve used much and I did not own one until Milwaukee sent me this sample, and so I cannot say whether it’s better than any other brand.īut the M18 Fuel Hedge trimmer got the job done fast without struggling. I suspect it wouldn’t really degrade the performance. I wish I would have thrown in a 5.0Ah pack while I was working, but I forgot. I did not notice any difference in performance - it probably was not designed with the new batteries in mind. I did test the Hedge Trimmer with the new 12.0Ah battery. You can see they are separate bushes and not wildly encroaching into my grass.Īnd while it’s not ideal that they are quite bare underneath because I cut them back so much, I’m not too worried, these things come back with a vengeance when they are pruned.Īgain ideally we control these by hand, using hand cutters a few times a year to shape them and take branches out from the interior so the bush can get light inside. Here are the same bushes after a few minutes of trimming. I’m not going to bore you with a ton of pictures of my scraggly bushes, but I thought I’d just show what you could do in a matter of a few minutes with the M18 Fuel Hedge Trimmer. It probably would have been more productive to put the trimmer down and grab a pair of loppers. I backed off, approached it from a different angle, and the trimmer eventually cut through. In fact you see the trimmer jam at one point. In some cases I’m cutting branches that are right around the cut capacity of 3/4″. In the video, I’m cutting back the bushes so they are behind the border stones. Ohio Power tool has a deal right now where you can get the M18 Fuel String Trimmer kit (string trimmer, rapid charger and 9.0Ah battery) plus the bare tool Hedge Trimmer for $300.īuy Now (Kit + string trimmer via Ohio Power Tool) Using the Trimmer The best deal on the kit right now seems to be Home Depot where you can get the trimmer, 9.0Ah battery, rapid charger plus another free 9.0Ah battery thrown in for $300. The bare tool runs about $170, while the kit runs $300. The M18 Fuel Hedge Trimmer comes either as a bare tool or as a kit with rapid charger and 9.0Ah battery.
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