Bosch Cordless strimmer

I have just purchased one of these, it uses the Accutrim plastic safety blades instead of the usual strimmer wire, has anyone else got one? just seemed really easy to change the blades and I always found the wire really fiddly.

Val

 

This is true, but I only have a very small amount of grass to cut, prefer cordless with animals around and at £25 if it lasts me two years I shall be happy!!

Val

 

I was looking at a 18V cordless strimmer , instead of my oversized corded one , as I only need to trim a few spots . I can't understand why a rechargeable battery should only last a year ? They are pretty well developed these days.
How is your Bosch performing Val ? Does it have enough ooomph for light trimming

 

Simple. its money.

Look at it this way, you make a cordless zog, but you can't make the batteries, but you know where to buy them from. You find out there are 2 choices, Battery H and battery G. Battery H costs you £1.50, battery G costs you £1.30
You can make 1,000 zogs / week although battery H is better its still 20p more.

By buying battery G you save £200 / week, you also know that when the time comes people will buy a new battery, oh they can't, its "built in" so they have to buy a new zog, since you are the only person who makes them.

Yes, in an ideal world you would use battery H, but you are only interested in making money, not quality, Besides, quality costs, which adds up the whole way down the chain, the better battery costs you 20p more, but you sell it at 50p more, then the next person adds 40p, and the retailer adds £2 to the price, so it makes it much more expensive all for the sake of 20p

 

I am not pleased with my one at all, it was the cheapest of the range but the plastic 'blades' are SO easily damaged!!! if I just touched the wire fence the blade was finished, I was only using it for about 5 minutes and I got through 5 blades!!!!!!!! OK I suppose just to hack through long grass where it doesn't come into contact with anything else.

Val

 

Hi Gemini

I recently bought one of these for my front garden. I don't have a problem with the battery - seems to keep going for the hour it promises. However, I DO find I'm getting annoyed with the plastic blades. They run out quite quickly, but more infuriating is that they come away from their holder during use and I'm happily strimming for a while and then realise I'm not cutting anything! There is a slight sound variation which I now recognise that alerts me to this, but is a pain. I was thinking of getting an expensive petrol powered strimmer but was seduced at B&Q by this one. I seem to buy strimmers each year so getting a really good one would have made more sense. This one wasn't cheap, so a bit disappointed with it. So not really happy with it, although when it IS strimming it does a very good job

Lesley