What will a strimmer cut down?

[starloc]

Ive bought another old house in Bulgaria (this ones for my mum when its fixed! as she wants to move here ), the garden a few years ago looked great in photos, but now its about 10 foot high....ive always just been able to mow it down, this looks a little high for the lawn mower!

What would be the best to chop it down?

I have a chainsaw for big things if needed, for the rest would a strimmer do it? or do i need a brush cutter? , there are some fruit trees in between the `whatever it is` that has grown and i dont want to chop the trees

Would one of the lightweight electric strimmers do it? ( slower obviously but trying to save car space ) , but will they chop brambles and things like that , it could be anything, due to fruit trees over here i think its probably plum suckers ,brambles and grapevine mainly

This is it last summer, before and after some was chopped down using something, not sure what though.





This is a few years ago, to show the size i need to clear its about 1600 sqm , will the electric ones blow up if i try and clear it using one of them

[greenishfing]

I'd get a petrol brushcutter/strimmer with interchangable heads. It will do the hard work now and make upkeep easy in the future. We had a stihl one that broke in two for transport and wasn't too bulky.

[Albanach]

There is a bloke at work who got an attachment for his strimmer with 4 chains for heavy duty clearing - these would be no good with light grass. I'd imagine a good petrol strimmer with the wire, blade and chain attachments would be ideal for clearing.

[Glutton4...]

A decent Petrol strimmer with strong line will tackle most jobs, but brambles and thistles will keep snapping the line. There is a product that will make the job easy, but I don't want to advertise and get in trouble with the Mods.

I'll PM you.

[Albanach]

There is a product that will make the job easy, but I don't want to advertise and get in trouble with the Mods.

Goat.....?

[Jardiniere]

Our patch is only half cultivated, we are clearing it bit by bit, the main culprits are brambles and false acacia tree seedlings. A strimmer is of no use whatsoever...we have to use a brush cutter and a small saw.Yours looks as though you would need a brush cutter but as has been said previously if you buy one with a detachable head you can also use the strimmer bit for the lighter parts.Buy a petrol one.

[Two_Sheds]

I did some work with an industrial strimmer for a while, we cleared really overgrown graveyards etc, 10ft high nettles and brambles.
The strimmer did them, but we had to use an up-and-down motion to hack them up, not the usual side-to-side sweep

[starloc]

I think ive decided to get the b&q own brand brushcutter for £99 , the pictures on the website show it as a strimmer, but i looked at one instore and it has the blade ,

Im still thinking about the ryobi one as you can change ends on it to rotorvators and allsorts , but im not sure, i think the b&q one looks stronger

i will test it over here in the UK so i can take it back if it falls apart or anything like that the engine looks the same as the b&q chainsaw i got and that runs fine

[Pa Snips]

I wouldn't buy a B&Q brush-cutter because of the amount of B&Q hedge-trimmers we've had to return due to premature failure. The Homelite strimmers are very good though and, when used with square section strimmer line, will go through surprisingly thick growth.