Why do you need an electric brush cutter in a garden
Everyone knows pruning shears, with which gardeners cut and shorten excess shoots on trees and shrubs. But if you want to mow a hedge or give a new shape to a decorative bush, you need an electric brush cutter. There are gasoline powered devices, but they are used on large areas far from energy sources.
Varieties of electric shrub shears
Cordless brush cutters are heavier, more expensive. However, it is much more convenient to work with the device without binding. The expensive models from well-known manufacturers use reliable high-capacity lithium-ion batteries with fast recharging. The set includes 2 batteries for alternate charging. During winter storage, unemployed batteries become unusable.
When choosing a tool, you should pay attention:
- device power;
- device of knives;
- the presence of a rod for working with tall specimens.
Shears for battery-powered devices can have one or two-sided sharpening, different lengths of the cutting edge. This affects the speed of work and the quality of the created contours. A cheaper tool has one fixed blade, the other cuts. Moreover, sharpening can be on one or both sides. These scissors create a strong vibration and your hands get tired quickly. Sawing units of a hedgecutter with two movable blades sharpened on both sides work more organically and without great effort. This is a professional tool.
BOSCH tool knives are made of Swiss special tool steel. They are sharpened with laser control and diamond processing. During the season, the canvas does not dull. Branded canvas is sold in service centers.
An electric hobbyist hedgecutter may have one or two handles depending on the engine power. Models with one handle cut the very ends of not fully lignified branches. If a bar is included, then the device will allow you to trim the tops and mow the lawn. The length of the blades for hedge trimmers with a power of 0.4 kW does not exceed 16 cm.
Medium and large tools are equipped with two handles, since their weight reaches 4.5 kg, power is up to 1 kW. But their cutters reach 80 cm and work at a frequency of 4000 movements per minute. Powerful branch installations are cut off up to 2 cm in cross section, and the contour is very clean.
Choosing a network hedgecutter
Electric shears are considered a cheap, lightweight, convenient tool for the gardener. If the nearest outlet is not more than 30 meters away or there is a wiring for electrical tools in the garden, an electric network brush cutter will be a useful acquisition. The device can be operated only in dry weather, carefully observing the power cable, especially when working with the barbell. Electric shears work silently and do not emit harmful gases.
Mostly well-known companies have focused on battery and gasoline models. In the rating of networked tools, the leader belongs to the Bosh electric brushcutter.The presented models with blade lengths of 42-65 cm provide high productivity. The power of the devices 450 - 700 W allows you to cut out thick branches of overgrown hedgessince the saw blades are spaced from 16 to 34 mm.
Let's take a closer look at one of these models, the Bosch AHS 45-16 hedgecutter. The device is well balanced and easy to operate with comfortable handles. The product is designed for long-term operation, does not create vibrations due to the rapid movement of 42 cm long knife blades. The motor has a power of 450 W. The brushcutter weighs 2.9 kg. A device for monitoring the horizontal cut line is installed.
Interskol brush cutters from the network are performed as a modified brushcutter. The company mainly specializes in gasoline models. For use in confined spaces, models with a cutting line or disc are being developed. Unlike Bosh scissors, Russian scissors can be lifted on a bar to trim tall stands.
Electric brush cutter KRE-23/1000 is a device with a cutting line. The protection system is used:
- electrical insulating sleeve;
- the button blocks accidental activation;
- soft start system.
In fact, it is reinforced brushcutter with a knife grip width of 23, a line of 43 cm. Additional conveniences are a collapsible bar, a handle adjustable for height, and an electrically insulating pad on the handle. Tool power 1 kW.
Meet the cordless electric garden shears
The advantages of battery models are primarily in their mobility. A small device will comb the bush in the most inaccessible places. The device works almost silently and does not interfere with the rest of others.
On expensive models of well-known manufacturers, there is a "water level" function that allows you to cut the hedge parallel to the soil surface.
The best in this segment are Bosch cordless brushcutters. Complicated technology does not seem so to the consumer. Pressing the "Start" button - and the tool at work. Comfortable handles, low weight, no vibration are the trademark features of the instrument. The protective screen protects the operator from branches flying at high speed.
Equipment technical equipment:
- economical energy consumption in combination with a powerful battery;
- double-sided diamond-coated knives;
- the use of lithium-ion batteries with a high capacity and without the memory effect of the last charge level;
- well balanced to reduce fatigue, noise and vibration.
The Bosh tool models are ergonomic, you want to pick them up and go to work.