Ryobi Expand-it Range

[jands]

I am thinking of buying the Ryobi expandit power unit with the cultivator and the hedge trimmer. It all seems a goog idea paying for one power unit and using it for many jobs. but is this just a jack of all trades and a master of none?

Has any one purchased/used on any advice would be great before I spend money on something I dont need.

[phil the shed]

i have used one and must say not overly impressed, don't think it will do heavyish work.

[Chappers]

I bought the hedge trimmer/strimmer combination off ebay and its fine, the strimmer strims and the hedge cutter cuts hedges, no probs with it at all.

Paul

[bluemoon]

We borrowed one, but only with the strimmer bit, this was before we bought our own petrol strimmer so it's about 4 years ago. Anyway it was fine, but incredibly noisy in comparison to the one we bought.

[ginger ninger]

I use Ryobi handheld power tools, so if the gardening tools are half as good, your onto a winner.

[Pumpkin Becki]

We've got the petrol strimmer which we have found really effective, and will shortly be purchasing the hedge trimmer attachment for it too. The strimmer has to contend with quite a lot at our allotment: tough grass (was sheep pasture), long grass, often wet, monsterous nettle patch and it coped with everything - it even chewed big slashes in our rabbit fencing, but I think that was down to operator error (OH!!)!!

[kirsty b]

I have the strimmer and the cultivator attachments and I love it. The cultivator can't do really heavy work like a big rotovator can, but will make broken ground a finer tilth.
If you want the cultivator you will need the 30cc motor. I think they do one thats about 23 or 25 cc also.
I saving for the brush cutter too now.