Cordless strimmer, recommendations please!

[linspins]

I need a fairly light strimmer, as I am a bit of a weakling! Hence I’m thinking of a battery powered strimmer. I know they have a reputation for not having much welly, but wondered if they are really not worth buying. Anyone got any recommendations? Or know of a very light petrol one?

I bought a Qualcast cordless strimmer last year (they're about £45) just for trimming the lawn edges. Best thing I ever did! It only takes about 10 minutes to do it, whereas it would take at least half an hour with edging shears. Bosch also make one, but it's much more expensive, over £100 I believe. If you only want it for light work I recommend the Qualcast.

Or you could look at the company Greenworks.

You buy one cordless product and a battery, then use the same battery to charge other of their products more cheaply.

I’ve recently bought a fabulous strimmer.
(BLACK+DECKER 36 V Lithium-Ion Strimmer with 2.0 Ah Battery)
£129 on Amazon now, but was reduced to £85 few weeks ago. Dh has a petrol strimmer, which is temperamental and I can barely lift. I had a v cheap corded strimmer last year, which lacked power, a pain to plug in with extension leads etc, and nearly did my head in having to manually feed cord through.
The new one is light, really simple to use, adjustable power and at highest can really motor through heavy weeds and long grass. Automatic line feed (yes!)
The battery is fab - lasts 30-40 mins depending on power, which as I explained to dh, is very much my limit of strimming continuously anyway! Need a cuppa by then and to clear up debris/prep next area. The battery really does take under an hour to recharge too -you can buy spare batteries if wished.
Would really highly recommend.

Thanks everyone! Quince, that looks like the one for me! I wonder if it will be on offer again soon....😬😁

Bosch.

I had an old model and got the new one too, one for allotment one for home. The battery from the old one still works in the new one though which is handy as I need both batteries up the allotment because I have quite a bit of grass and tough weeds. The battery runs out faster if it has coarser stuff to cut through.

The Bosch one is good because it uses plastic blades rather than a line feed. I bought a (not bosch) line feed one once and it was crap, totally useless for coarse grass and weeds like on my allotment.

My bosch one also has a head that turns 90 degree for edging although I don't use that much DH does.

It isn't as good as my neighbours petrol one, but it does chop through everything up to and including brambles, I have to wear decent boots when I use it.

Expensive but worth it IMO.

Ooh! I just came on to post that I am in love with my birthday present strimmer and here is your thread! I have the same one as Quince and got halfway round our big garden today with it before the battery ran out as it hasn't been fully charged. It makes the garden look so much neater and I can use it to clear the cracks in paths and everything.

I’m so excited! My new strimmer arrived today! Bought the one quince has. Was thinking of waiting to see if it came back on special offer on Amazon but the weeds are growing so fast I need it now...😁
Might get to try it out tomorrow....