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Please can you recommend a telesxopic / pole hedge trimmer under £100 ?
There are tons of them on Amazon - lots of cordless ones too but not sure if they are any good. I’d rather have corded if it means more cutting power.
Thanks!
I know it’s not the most exciting topic… but not one recommendation?! 🙁
Got a Sthil cordless one, it's great but more than £100, sorry.
Hard work.... just saying prefer step ladders - yes i know ladders are for access not working from.
Elf n saftey gorn mad...
Note always wear flip flops.
Nothing wrong with ladders for working from. Ladder in the background to prove it
Flip flops man you obviously did not have your flip flops on...
Bet you had crocs on...
Did it hurt i have to ask
[i]Bet you had crocs on…[/i] I would not be seen dead in Crocs. This was an 8am conservatory cleaning related injury whilst rushing to buy a Maserati.
Some pain was involved along with 6 months in bed while they were deciding whether to amputate or not followed by 6 months in a wheelchair / sticks while I was glad they didn't. 8 years and 6 operations later I can park where I like thanks to the blue badge which I would swap in an eye blink to have two ankles again.
Interesting fact : I have more than the average number of legs but less than the average number of ankles
Last but 1 operation x ray
Conservatory = crocs.... dont try and be cool with the Maserati dead cat.
On a more serious note you could consider yourself lucky or unlucky depending on your view of life
I recently brought this one and seems to be good so far..
I had the Mac-allister one that Chrispy has posted up. I found the harness a waste of time and it felt unbalanced, also to much of a faff with the smaller hedges, so got rid and bought a standard one. Much lighter feel when using it, easier to handle and manoeuvre and cheaper.
Yes, I have to use a platform to get to the top of the highest hedge, but that's sturdy and solid enough with the Mrs steadying it.
Unless you really need along one for tall hedges, imo a standard one is a better all round shout
I got the Ryobi one because I already had a couple of batteries and charger. I think it was around the £100 mark without batteries. This is the model that must be 4 years old now, still going strong. It has 3 sections - the base and hand where you put the battery, the cutting head which is adjustable angle for doing hedge tops, and the central sections, which you can leave off for doing stuff that's not quite so high.
It will get through stuff 10-15mm thick easily enough - the difficulty is holding it still enough to chew through in the same place.
It'll get loads done with a very modest amount of battery.
I'll echo what Carlos says about the long pole ones being unwieldy and heavy. Unless you're stacked, you'll get tired pretty swinging it around (max length must be 3 m+) but that's still far safer than ladders IMHO.
It's still quite heavy and long for doing close work on hedges low to the ground, so you might find you still want a small one, but maybe get corded for that.
get one with a cable. they seem to be more reliable for the couple of times a year youll use it.
They are all very heavy that ive treid (sub 100 quid) so grab one from screwfix
Not much help(unless they have them again soon) but I got a Lidl cabled one for £40 which has an extension bar so you can use it short or long. The handle turns and the trimmer angles both ways so you can easily work from all directions. It can get through decent size branches and isn't too heavy but also has a shoulder strap to spread the weight. I'm very pleased with it and would happily recommend.
Einhell extendable hedge trimmer here.
Like this:
Its mains, which for this application is desirable IMO. 900w so has some grunt, and its shaft driven from the motor in the handle instead of the cutting end, which means its way more balanced.
It's at the cheaper end of the spectrum but is robust. Had mine for 4 years now.
The only thing I've had to do is lube the cutter as normal, and seat a couple of bearings properly in the pole that support the drive shaft when I first got it.
Have you looked on FB marketplace? I got a Vonhaus one with an extra chainsaw attachment for £25, barely used. Both bit's seem to do the job.
I've just realized that I have two hedge trimmers, but only one hedge.
I've got that cordless Ryobi pole trimmer, and the cordless regular one also - I only use the pole one, albeit with only two sections (rather than all 3).
Yes its a little bit unwieldy vs the regular one, but it feels a lot safer/easier than the regular one plus stepladder. Particularly after having seen WCAs post above - Jesus Christ!
I would also strongly advocate for a cordless version - worth it for a hedge trimmer IMO
That Einhell corded one at Toolstation looks the business for sub £100. Standard corded hedge trimmers are rotten because the blade is near to the cable, which isn't the case for the pole cutter so I'd have that over a cheap battery one any day.
I have got the DeWalt XR long reach cutter and it works well, but obviously quite a bit more unless you already have the batteries.