supersparky wrote: ↑Thu Sep 19, 2024 10:36 am
I've already got a lot of Ryobi 18v garden stuff. Even have a chainsaw. Have never been overly impressed with the chainsaw though. When I mentioned to SWMBO, that I was getting a carby, she said why don't I get a whole new saw.
I am going to have a proper look at the Stihl units.
Blazeaid have been using them for a few years now. It would suit me to not carry a container of two stroke fuel, everywhere we go.
I've got 2 makita 18v chainsaws, 14 and 16inch and looking at getting a 40v 18inch makita and my 3 Husqvarna 14-16-21inch petrol saws sit in the workshop and have for the last few years. The Makita are wonderful and do a top job of dropping and cutting up trees, I can cut through trunks twice the size of the saws without any problems. The only problems that have come up are the 9amp ebay batteries I've got, a couple have died and 4 only provided half the power, but the original 5amp makita's I have still function at 100% as do the other 9amp ebay ones. Just waiting for a good battery brush cutter to come along, the battery whipper snippers just can't do the job of slashing bracken and small bushes and brush cutters don't drop pieces of plastic everywhere as I use metal blades. But my Husqvarna 4 stroke brush cutter does a great job and uses very little fuel, just can't stand the noise after using battery equipment.
Got the Makita because that's what all my battery tools are and the batteries fit them all. Plus ebay batteries are 1/3 of the price and do a good job, but you can get some lemons and they do provide a 10 year warranty if you can get it. I also use ebay blades and chains, again less than half the price of genuine makita.
Finally got the parts for my centrifuge, the motor controller packed it in after more than 15 years and have had no end of trouble getting one to suit and being able to work out how to program them for 6000rpm, so bit the bullet and got one from the centrifuge manufacturer who provided a step by step parameter programming solution, which luckily works on the Aus motor controller I bought at half the price of the yank job. So no more shopping bag filtering and back to easy fuel making.
Another wet day here, which started out as a sunny and warm, but temps dropped from 15 to 9 about an hour ago and we've had SW winds around 65kph and rain. So no bike riding or surfing again today, we just had a 78kph gust according to the new weather station.