This weed wacker is very strong, the next step would be a brushwacker with a blade.
The good:
-- enough power to cut down weeds up to waist high if the weeds are not too woody.
-- has variable control so that light weeds can be trimmed easily and effectively. This trimmer can trim from light flimsy weeds all the way to dense almost brush weeds.
Cons:
-- the DeWalt string head is useless and jams way too often. After one use I replaced the DeWalt string head with Husqvarna T35 537388101 (indeed, I bought 3 of them eventually to have prewound spools when the line runs out in the middle of wacking). The T35 Husqvarna just goes and goes and goes without problems.
-- the weight is a little high for some folks, there is no shoulder strap.
I am happy with the DeWalt trimmer line and have only used the DeWalt line except for the initial Husqvarna line. The DeWalt trimmer line does not jam in the T35 even when randomly hand wound. This is important, carefully winding line is such a waste of time and some trimmers seem to only work well with well wound line.
I get about 45 minutes from a 9AH FlexVolt battery with perhaps 50-80% of the time actually wacking heavy weeds, averaging knee high. After two of these batteries are depleted, the unit weight is fatiguing, the wacker plus 9AH battery is fairly heavy albeit well balanced.
I tried the suggested alternate DeWalt guard to reduce getting covered with bits of weeds, and I was disappointed-- this alternate guard might be OK for a suburban yard with sidewalks, but the guard just gets in the way with heavy weeds-- and if you only have light weeds, well, you don't need this weed wacker. Switched back to the original shield and wear long sleeves, chainsaw chaps, and mask due to poison ivy. With the original guard one is guaranteed to be covered in bits of weeds, from head to toe particularly the lower legs. Regardless, the original DeWalt guard works very well in heavy vegetation.
Use: 12 acre pocket farm, this trimmer plus a Stihl gas brushwacker, the latter for the heavy woody bushes. If those are not sufficient, there is the DeWalt battery chainsaw followed by a Stihl gas chainsaw.
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| Price | See price in cart | See price in cart | $84.98 | $221.30 | See price in cart |
| Sold By | CPO Outlets | CPO Outlets | SOYUS--US | CPO Outlets | CPO Outlets |
| Cutting Width | 15 inches | 15.0 inches | 10 inches | 15 inches | 17.0 inches |
| Item Dimensions | 14 x 45 x 12 inches | 40 x 10 x 5 inches | 21 x 7 x 5 inches | 12.51 x 10.47 x 38.77 inches | 40 x 10 x 5 inches |
| Item Weight | 12.00 lbs | 15.00 lbs | 6.00 lbs | 13.00 lbs | 9.60 lbs |
| Power Source | Battery Powered | — | Battery Powered | Battery Powered | Battery Powered |
| Voltage | 60 | — | — | 60 volts | 60.0 volts |
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Reviewed in the United States on July 31, 2018
Let’s be clear: this is the best string trimmer I have ever used:No mixing oil... I don’t understand why 2 strokes trimmers are still a thing. It’s costly, wasteful, and requires separate fuel supplies to be kept. Even better than a 4 stroke, the Dewalt flexvolt string trimmer requires neither oil nor gas.There’s no idling engine, the Dewalt flexvolt trimmer only makes noise when you’re using it and it makes less running noise than gas models. It is extremely power and doesn’t get bogged down.No pull start. Once the Mbte starts to get to small engines and they require several pulls to start, it’s a miserable thing. No hokey drill starters either, just pull the trigger on the Dewalt and it spins.No compromises. The dewalt flexvolt string trimmer lasts a long time on a charge. It’s light, well balanced, powerful, and competitively priced against 4 stroke models and other cordless models.There is a little to be desired. A larger deflector is needed. You will get completely covered head to toe in debris using it. Also it’s motor in head design makes future attachments impossible, although string trimmer attachments are almost always obsurdly overpriced and wonky.So why one star? The battery dies. I’m told they’re dropping like flies. When mine went, it claimed a full charge in all my dewalt chargers but it was discharged.No big deal right? There’s a generous 3 year warranty.Dewalt, however, hates their customers and would like to discourage you from claiming a warranty. They will make you jump through absurd hoops... they really are obnoxious.I called dewalt about the battery and they said that it had to be replaced at a service center; that it can’t be cross shipped. Annoying, but probably quicker.Next annoyance: the closest service center is 45 miles from me. Sounds like a Saturday trip...The service centers are closed on Saturday. Also they’re closed on Sunday... also they close at 5pm during the week. They do this because they hate their customers, the overwhelming majority of whom work for a living.So I used some sick time and left work early to make it to the service center. The employee was nice and knowledgeable. She quickly diagnosed my battery as completely dead.Again the $209 3/9amp 20/60v battery was completely dead... after 11 months, only 3 of which it was used... even then biweekly for about an hour at a time... always charged to full and then removed and stored in a cool dry room. Clarifying: there was 6 cycles on this battery last summer and maybe 2 this summer. 8 cycles, never left discharged, never run down to empty, never abused.Fine: it’s a defective battery. There’s a slight inconvenience swapping it out. There is, again, a three year warranty.There’s more: the dewalt service centers do not have this battery because of excessive problems with it. So one would have to be shipped out... so there was absolutely no point going to the service center.So after dewalt sends me through these hoops they will ship me out a battery in what? 2 days? 3 days?5 days?No. 8 weeks. That’s no joke. They took my battery and I can expect a replacement, which may last another 8 cycles, in 2 months... it’s the end of July... so I can trim my weeds again in October? No offer to buy back their defective product, no offer to swap it with 2 6 amp batteries or their new 12 amp.8 weeks. 8 summer weeks with no string trimmer. That’s acceptable for dewalt. They’re proud of their customer service and I’m important to them. Perhaps I should buy a second failure of a battery for $209, in stock oddly at my local hardware stores but dewalt can’t get their hands on one for 8 weeks.8 weeks.
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