Re: [Brushcutter] Need trimmer head for big cords

<news:bp@www.zefox.net> wrote in rec.gardens:

That's something else, here's what I'm referring to:
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIr2t-bIj4k
The relevant passage starts at about 22:40.

I see several advantages of the Supercut trimmer head.

The line is loaded on the spool

*manually*. My recent trimmer heads allow to load the line
“automatically” while the case remains closed. This *looks* like an
advantage but is none. You do not see what's happening inside and in
the case of two of my candidates, mess was happening. I prefer the
manual spool!

It somehow measures out the cord, keeping the exposed
length constant. Not clear it'll work with extremely heavy cord.

Me neither. As the action is dictated by the drag of the rotating
cord, size matters.., or weight. Density, meaning material…
Maybe they “measure” the difference in drag between both ends of the
cord and hope that it will frequently be extreme enough to deduce
the need for more line… Or they insist on 1 and the same cord size
forever.
But I am not concerned, as Stihl is exactly not a brand that I will
give money to – for a diversity of reasons, morality being one (I am
dumb that way), hype another. There are details of Stihl machines
which may be praised as sophisticated, by some, I call them onerous.

For example, I have a clear vision of what a fuel tank cap should
look like and how it should work. While on my Shindaiwa chainsaw
(and my McCullough, too) you open the cap, fill in the fuel mixture
and then just close the cap again, Stihl needs a complicated
mechanism which will ultimately break. A few flowery metaphors may
be needed before you admit that they made money from repute.

Hope this helps!

Thank you for the video. I will order my new/old Honda head *now*.

Cheerio

Michael