Bought one of these today

[Rusty]

Got fed up with the leccie strimmer, all that keeping an eye on the cord was too much and I've nearly come unstuck a couple of times. The solution;

 

http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Search/searchTerms/7304462.htm

 

It's hugely entertaining to use and pretty good value for £90. I'm firing it up in short bursts at the moment so the neighbours get used to it, it's made mincemeat of anything in its path so far and that's just with a quick squirt of the throttle. And then there's the aroma of two stroke oil burning....heaven.

Edited May 21, 2012 by Rusty

[Newt]

Yup. Those beat an electric trimmer all hollow.

[JV44]

I thought for a minute you had gone a bit spontaneous and bought a bivvy or something ,best time to strim the edges of the garden with a petrol strimmer is early on the morning around dawn

[robtherake]

I almost strimmed the chest of a particularly hirsute friend with one of these (drinking was involved, needless to say).

 

"Look at my shiny new toy" said I, " I bet it can strim the hairs off your chest, fella".

 

"Go for it!", said he, brimming with drunken bravado.

 

So he laid down on the lawn, I fired up the beast, revved it up a few times......and bottled out, after getting a mental image of a spiral composed of hair and flesh being dragged into the strimmer. The gathered crowd was highly disappointed.

[Elton]

I've got a petrol strimmer, too. I reckon I could strim a couple of feet off the fence, if I felt that way inclined

[Newt]

Elton - you need to rest up for a few days after the stress and strain of Wingham.

[n4lly]

Bet they are out of stock in Kent

[Rusty]

Gave it some more running time early evening and I think I'll have to choose my strimming time carefully. At full chat it's loud and I only need to point it at a victim for it to whither into submission, it's devastating.