Garden multi tools

Im after a petrol garden multi tool for my dad but have no idea what to buy

i have never heard of most brands…

ESKDE 52cc £140

ECKMAN 33cc £200

Horti power 62cc £200

Wolf Creek 58cc £200

Ryobi 30cc £350

All of them (except the Ryobi*) are probably just generic Chinese stuff with a made up name stuck on them. Screwfix’s own brand Titan do one of the 4-in-1 ones which is about £170 iirc. I had the strimmer/hedge trimmer version of it (£130 ish I think) until some c*** broke into my garage and stole it. The first one I had worked once and then wouldn’t start. The second one kind of worked, but would bog down and stall on full throttle, I just had to learn to hold it at about 95% and it was fine.

TBH, I’ll probably buy another in the summer. It’s useful for the hedges and for patch of grass that we use as a driveway (it’s private land, before anyone gets upset) and if it stops working I can just take it back to Screwfix and they’ll give me a new one without any hassle. I wouldn’t buy one online. Posting it back to an Amazon affiliate could be horribly expensive.

*I’m sure someone will be along shortly to say the same about Ryobi, but at least it’s a ‘known’ brand.

Stihl – buy once and hand onto your children

http://www.stihl.co.uk/STIHL-Products/028192/KombiSystem-and-MultiSystem.aspx

The cheap ones are surprisingly ok for the money (until they break and then they are straight in the bin) A customer had one and all the fuel pipes went at once and never recovered.
I bought a Ryobi one last year off another customer and it’s fine for home stuff but doesn’t cut it commercially. It’s now with a mate off here.
All of my kit is Stihl. Initial outlay hurts but worth it in the long run. The Kombi is my best earner. So versatile and easy to transport.
Just my 2p
Tim

I’ve got one of the cheap ones, bought off eBay. It does what I need it to do, but those pics showing the long extensions are a bit of a joke – they weigh a bloody ton, then factor in the length and they become a bit of a struggle to use. They like to wobble a bit too!

But still, for a bit of hedge trimming or the odd branch lopping off, they’re fine.

I almost recreated the chainsaw massacre with the extension one on a public road. My neighbours can only now talk about it in hushed tones. Thing weighed a fckn ton and i was staggering about with it running at full bore when the throttle control snapped off !
I pay a man now (for the garden)

What does he actually need? Better to buy one good tool than a cheap awful multitool ,(all of the above) which will never get used as he hates it.

What does he actually need? Better to buy one good tool than a cheap awful multitool ,(all of the above) which will never get used as he hates it.

He is retired and has a large garden (2/3 acres) with plenty to tackle, he does look after his equipment and id like to get him something decent (i did think the ones i linked to sounded a bit to cheap, i have an uneducated guess of around £500)

i have just priced up the Stihl Kombi and it came to £975 which is a hell of a jump from the ‘cheap chines ones’ , is their anything in-between ?

Thread hijack – how good are the mini chainsaw on a pole thingys? And aprt from NZcols experience how safe are they?

We’ve just paid for a large stem of a neighbours ash tree to be removed as it was totally overhanging ours. Another neighbour has another ash tree on the boundary that’s been previously pollarded so loads of new 2-3″ branches are coming off it

Family member recently bought the Makita combi and is over the moon with it for an acre of land. 4 stroke engine which helps as well.

https://www.worldofpower.co.uk/makita-combination-systems.html

Echo above about the weight of the cheaper ones as well. Work ok but they weigh a bloody ton so worth checking beforehand.

I have the Titan one I got for £100 in a sale from screwfix, does the job perfectly fine for me (on about 30m of hedge and grass strimming). no problems starting up after a few pulls but you do need to hold it at 95% throttle as stated above otherwise it bogs itself down.

My 2p worth is to sort out a gardener for him and then he can sit back sip a sherry and enjoy his garden without the hassle 🙂