New garden tool time, Sthil? single tools or multi tools?

[Frankychops]

My mrs went over a scaffold bar and bent the crank on our lovely honda mower. with a new engine/clutch/blades i'd be into a bill of £600 to fix. I'll likely swap a new crank in as a winter project and sell it.

So new garden tool times.

I need:

Mower
hedge trimmers
chain saw
strimmer.

I'm lucky that I live near Radmore and Tucker. I'm thinking of going all sthil? Any options on their stuff?

Mower i'm looking at:

https://www.radmoretucker.co.uk/shop/garden-machin...

Also with hedge trimemrs etc, better to get individual tools or one of the Kombi jobs?

https://www.radmoretucker.co.uk/shop/garden-machin...

looks like it costs more overall than just having individual items?

https://www.radmoretucker.co.uk/shop/garden-machin...

I'd like some stuff that'll last 10 years in domestic use. I'll use aspen for fuel so not worried about gumming up etc.

[Frankychops]

Ranger 6 said:

How big is your garden?

Ours is half an acre with 3 sides bordered by hedges, and the mower is a mountfield with Honda motor.

The tools are all Stihl - but electric. I'd go for the AP powered system, not the smaller domestic batteries. Ours has been faultless - chainsaw, pole hedge trimmer, blower etc all use the same battery. Conversation with a professional tree surgeon suggested that we didn't use them enough to 'need' petrol powered kit and he was right.

Edit: All are now over 4 years use without any breakdowns or failures - just consumables, such as strimmer cutters and chainsaw chain.

It’s about 1/3 acre but fiddly so there’s twice as many edges and circa 75m of hedgerow.

I’ll look at the cost comparison so see where it lands, they guys in the shop said “at your age, I’d just stay with petrol”(mid 40’s!).

How long do your batteries run for?

[Frankychops]

on a quick look, i'll stay with petrol as it looks like it doubles the cost with a pair of batteries or so!

[Frankychops]

looks like i've missed a BOGOF on batteries by one day also. Sods law otherwise it might have made sense.

[Frankychops]

dmsims said:

Do you have any existing battery tools ?

e.g. Makita do a good garden range

No, its time for a full new set of tools.

[Frankychops]

Ranger 6 said:

How big is your garden?

Ours is half an acre with 3 sides bordered by hedges, and the mower is a mountfield with Honda motor.

The tools are all Stihl - but electric. I'd go for the AP powered system, not the smaller domestic batteries. Ours has been faultless - chainsaw, pole hedge trimmer, blower etc all use the same battery. Conversation with a professional tree surgeon suggested that we didn't use them enough to 'need' petrol powered kit and he was right.

Edit: All are now over 4 years use without any breakdowns or failures - just consumables, such as strimmer cutters and chainsaw chain.

So, popped along. Was offered the free battery offer so have ordered the following:

rm 650 V lawnmower

Then AP battery bits: msa 160 chainsaw, fsa 135r bush cutter-Strimmer, HSA100 hedgetrimmer. charger and 4xBatteries.

Was £2300 all in, however I might sell 1 or two of the batteries once runtime has been tested. which should lower the actual cost to circa £2k. A lot of cash, but should last circa 10 years.

[Frankychops]

yeah, a little excited! just need to wait for them to arrive