BLACK+DECKER Electric Strimmer Grass Trimmer 900 W 35 cm with Wheel Edge Guide and Adjustable Second Handle GL9035-GB

This is easy to use. Its not heavy but can be a bit tiring in long bursts. The thing i love about it is it's a beast. Plenty of power to remove large stubborn weeds and long grass. Ate through them like butter. Long wire for larger gardens and easy to change spools. Great purchase

Good product.everything works well,

Very powerful tool, and good fun to use. Two gripes The cutting cable needs replacing too often and becomes annoying after a while. The vibration through the handles is excessive. But would buy again.

I ordered this strimmer on Friday. It arrived this morning Saturday. I did not pay extra for fast delivery. This is my third strimmer, and I had always been depressed about strimming because of the usual problems with line feed. I had not paid much for my strimmers but I didn't want to spend a lot of money and still have the same problems, and reading reviews made me realise that you could pay a lot and still not get a good result. This strimmer has two alternative spools, one with a spool and a single line feed, and one with a clip on double line. Both lines look tough, different colours but looked approximately equally tough. I had a thirty square yard patch with grass about eighteen inches tall, and some fairly tough weeds as well. Some brambles but not many. Using the spool feed, I cleared this down to two or three inches in 6 minutes. I don't know if the automatic line feed worked or if the line just wasn't bothered, but it was the same length as when I started. I had another patch of thirty square yards which was mostly brambles, growing up to two feet high in places. Both patches of garden, I should explain, I had hacked at with a billhook two or three times a year for the past three years, but otherwise they had not been disturbed. The brambly patch had some big slabs of slate on it which the brambles had grown over and I wanted to clear it back to the slabs. I decided to use the double line on the brambles. It did great, but about a third of the way through the line had worn down. I think it goes from stress, because once it started to go it went completely. So I put another one in and that one went faster. Some of the brambles were growing around a concrete post and others against a sturdy wooden fence so perhaps that was why. I then changed back to the spool and completed the task with no problem, the line staying at the same length. I think that means the automatic line feed was working perfectly which was a first for me! The whole job, sixty square yards, including three spool changes, took half an hour.

Great tool good buy

First time I have used this strimmer and used the whole spool in one sitting ! Hopefully they only gave a very small amount on the spool ; the predecessor in my mind was better the straight one ! Now on the hd wire .need to find a decent replacement spool !as someone mentioned don't use the Amazon recommended as it wont fit ! The closest I have found is 10 quid a spool !

I got through one heavily overgrown garden that is about 8m2 in half and hour & a second one I got 2/3rds done 'til I ran out of the line that came with it and a bit of edging but I have loads of line leftover from last year so I'll be back at it. The trick is really to stay away from the edges until last so you don't keep brushing up against posts and breaking the line. There was a guy next door in his garden with a strimmer at the same time as me but his was a petrol one; we made about the same amount of noise and progress finishing at more or less the same time; so I reckon it is as good as but obviously being corded doesn't have quite the same mobility not a problem to me as I also have a 30m extension cable on a spool and the cable on this is pretty good too about 10m it must be seems like it anyway I prefer to take the guard off & I find it really whizzes through grass and with a heavy line will take out quitechunky brambles too. seems quite rugged survived 2 years so far with nothing stupid going wrong with it but, something causes the caps to break every now and then, being quite powerful and maybe bashing the ground or hitting the brambles too hard mght cause a lot of vibration and the plastic tabs on the cap can break although the caps are replaceable better just to be careful with it, and with the standard light line stay away from the edges until last because it goes through it quickly otherwise. You can get a dual line cap for it as well as the heavy duty cap Generally great all round - blitzkreig on the jungle! Will tackle overgrown gardens well. Wear goggles it kicks up dirt and the odd stone. If you ask me electric is much easier to store than petrol

This is a powerfull strimmer, I would say as good as a petrol strimmer. It cut through long grass with ease and as others have said, if not careful it will rip into the soil, the single lines are very easy to fit and also very durable. I would have given this five stars if it had a detachable power lead, the symbol on the casing and some of the published photos give the impressing that the power lead plugs in. For me all garden power tools should have detachable leads so that they can be stored properly as in use they get kinked and twisted and need to be unpluged to get the kinks out and hang them up, I also feel the little edging wheel is a gimic and just cause grass clippings to get stuck in it, I will probably take it off. All things considered this is a good tool and works well albeit with a couple of niggles, i think this thing is poweful enough for any garden unless of course you want to use it comercially. Black & Decker take off the silly little wheel and fit a plug and socket for the power cable and you will have a dam good tool.

This is my second corded (b+d ) strimmer. This one is more user friendly than previous model( which had the motor at cutter end inducing higher fatigue). In this new model motor in switch side and not over hung. New model has long cord. My apprehension was on bend shaft which is inefficient and may generate more heat. ( New model 700 W compared to older model of 600 W). It is so, but not a great disadvantage. One can take a break which is beneficial for man and m/c. This model has one side line( 2mm) for normal use , but for thick bush, 2 sided one more set is given. I haven't understood the design philosophy of single line cutting which induces more vibration. M/c supplied line ( 2mm) was limited in length and later I used available 1.6 mm line. It did not work properly, the spool unwounded. There is a strong reco from b+d to use 2mm line only. Quite unfortunately, both design use a reduction gear which is non metallic. That will be the item first to damage and life get limited. I don't know why b+d cannot improve on it. The mc comes with square pin where as in India, we are having round socket. So , an interface adaptor needed or we have cut the cable and replace with round pin. Line auto feed is working, but I have not understood the principle behind it. This m/c is more rugged than previous version, still spool cap can get damaged,if it hit ground or stone. ( end of life) By and large my apprehension on bend shaft which delayed my purchase is not a concern. Those who are buying, pl stock consumables like line, spool etc. My previous model, I could not get spare parts as model is withdrawn. Users, pl use gum boot, gogles and cap and enjoy safe working.

This is an excellent product from Black & Decker., Very worth, value for money. Enough RPM to trim your garden grass, especially when it comes to yourself doing all the odd jobs. My wife, kids (grown up boys) love it. The only drawback is that the guard needs to be unscrewed after use to clean it, which is though NOT very difficult BUT I think, a snap-ob facility would have been a killer. Also the guard could be more hard so that you can make the cutter stand on it. Even now I can make the cutter vertically stand with the support of the guard but it's NOT sturdy enough. But with only this very small shortcoming, it's a product worth having, especially if you love doing your garden why yourself!

Funziona bene, anche dopo qualche anni e il mio giardino è grande

Ordered for a friend. Works well enough for a small garden.

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