Do I REGRET Buying The STIHL FSA 120? Battery GOOD ENOUGH For PRO Gardeners?  

Just to clarify...I'm not paid or sponsored by Stihl for this, I've bought all this kit and these are my thoughts on the Stihl and battery gear. It may not suit everyone so please do your own research before buying anything that I like and use. As always, thanks for watching... great to have you along on this RU-vid thing👍👍

I'm a forestry worker every time I use the KMA135 it always impresses me what it's capable of

I swapped my FS70 for one of these last year. I was sick of the noise, vibration and standing in a cloud of fumes for hours. Music and Podcasts get me through the day and with battery it's so much better. Also the super light trigger operation cleared up the finger pain I was getting over longer sessions.

In our experience for small and medium gardens, battery gear is perfect. For massive gardens and major commercial work, petrol is still probably king. We purely do small domestic work now and so are all battery other than our mowers or backpack blower for the autumn.

we can trim hedges all day on battery. Much more comfortable for us and everyone's ears. No tool is perfect. Still good to have petrol and a battery. Not tried a battery commercial mower yet but I'm sure it will come one day. Good honest review Nathan

Hi Nathan Nice one Good to see your happy with it the big complaint the commenters have is run time my battery kombi strimming 45 min the petrol fs 310 45 min per tank Thanks again

It’s nice to mix them up .. I’ve recently done some modest hedges using my battery hedge cutters and they work a treat .. I’ve got a battery strimmer but not used it .. 😮…,it’s certainly nice to do a job and use no petrol at all I must admit… 👍😎

I'm all for battery after years and years of using noisy smelly two stroke... I'm into the Makita 40v XGT stuff. I still have my petrol chainsaw, mower and brush cutter for bigger jobs but it's surprising how much you can get done with the battery kit 🔋

Good video as usual. My experience is very similar. Battery is perfectly suitable & dependable for smaller areas. I happen to do a lot of heavy brushcutting, so I will always require a 2 stroke. Both battery & 2 stroke have their place. I was initially sceptical of battery but have now embraced it.

Battery is the way forward. ( with the possible exception of commercial use mowers... For now) it's just that not everyone has realised it yet. Ego is my weapon of choice. Like all battery kit it's expensive. But on balance I think the positives out way the cost negatives.

Great stuff and totally agree . I'm all battery with exception of the mower for over 4 years now and haven't mixed up 2 stroke fuel for a long time .I have enough batteries to go all day and have multi chargers so all the charging is done within an hour or so when I get home..Some operators here have inverters with either duel battery or solo panels...bit too technical for me and not cheap they tell me..I have though woken up at night and yelled " charge the batteries lol " Great video as usual and love your work

Good bit of film showing how much that battery gives you for that whack job. I have three AP 300s and use it with the Kombi system. I was surprised the first time I did a big weed whack and it ran out after 30 minutes (on full power), but I just replaced it and charged. No problem. No fuel. No mixing. No smell. No cold starting pulls. My two chainsaws are still petrol but I think, if I could afford it, would go with a powerful battery model (AP 500). But no need yet. Thanks for the video, Mr Lewis, you have confirmed my bias!

I'm the same as you, battery is perfect for maintenance and petrol for the heavy duty stuff, I have a mate who's all petrol but I notice when we work together he's always using my strimmer and blower, just pick it up and your ready, defo more convenient 😃

Spot on, especially regarding the 2 stroke savings. With my set up the savings are enough to buy me another new battery every two months, not that there is a need to of course.

Thanks for the shout out! 😊 good demonstration 👌🏻

Looks like it does the job just fine to me I’m loving the battery kit. Much easier on my aching body😅👍

They are good. Battery packs can be serviced/repaired for these. Most have a balance board PCB inside and an array of usually up to 20 cells. The battery packs should really be cleaned internally from time to time using distilled water or PCB cleaner etc.

Love my FSA90 strimmer. Use it every day. Still got a petrol FS90 Though for big clearances but it rarely comes out. Battery is always the first choice.

I work with the FSA135 for a few weeks, very good stuff. I also bought the BGA86 battery blower, enjoy it every day. For bigger jobs I use petrol tools

Loving the videos, you're a far bigger maintenance company than me but very informative and entertaining to watch. The happy go miserable personality is also a bit of me lol. Keep up the good work!

Hi Nathan,we have just gone over to Battery machine's. Hedge trimming and strimmers, blowers. Game changer, thanks for the advice and videos. Garry Solihull

we are the same, small maintenance jobs battery is perfect, anything major defiantly petrol, it also makes a difference what typ of handle you have for strimming vs brush cutting, would not want to do the big commercial job with battery if I only had a D handled strimmer,

I’ve been using my battery gear all week and I really do like it The combi with the strimmer head is really light I want to buy a few more batteries tho

Great video mate, I'm just starting out and bought all battery gear, got 5 batteries planning to do small jobs, so Great video for me mate 👍

Wish i could afford to get a decent battery strimmer! I actual use the Lidl battery multi tool. I need some more batteries though but, for edging up it's fine. It dubai doesn't have the power for thick stuff, but that's why i have the petrol strimmer.

I'd love to go battery but I just cant justify the battery cost and the recharge times on Stihl gear

Hi As a professional gardening business, I find the 7 AK 10s and AK 20s, along with a single AK 30s, to be quite effective. However, my only criticism would be that the batteries take a considerable amount of time to charge using the standard charger.

Sold I starting to hate my old petrol strimmer and I mainly do small maintenance work

No I don't regret going battery as you know I only use the Super pro Dewalt stuff sorry kit.... my question to you is how do you cost your battery charging do you estimate it or have you got a system in place to tell you the cost etc etc etc etc etc 🤷🤠

Love my battery gear, no downsides just positives 👍

Battery gear is just..nice to use. I couldn't go back to all that noise, weight, fumes, and mixing 2-stroke. Also, you can start nice and early in the summer and you don't p%ss people off.

Thanks for your video! We currently have a 10+ years old FS120, and it is starting to crap out (bearings shot, vibrations of the drive shaft), so we are considering a new tool. Is my assumption right that the FSA120 is the battery equivalent of the FS120 in terms of power? The FS120 is plenty powerful for our use. Usually doing about 2 hours of mowing between the grapevines a day, sometimes more. We already have a AP200 battery for another tool, so that could be re-used. Guess we'd need another 2 batteries to get through a 2h mowing session? Did you use it on eco or performance mode in your short "I did this with 3 bars" clip?

Looks a great machine. I love Stihl.

I have Makita 18v tools, they are great for maintenance

i have a battery one, run time is good, but i buy the replacement heads of string, and the strings are always breaking,called stihl and am getting no where with them

If it works out for you sod what other people say.Great to have the two as it will save you time and money,Not like me to sound sensible,I will have to go now and lie down in A dark room for an hour LOL

I’m nearly all battery now. . When I retire I can sell the batteries on 👍

I wonder how many people are put off battery power by something I'd call "battery worry". We know batteries are getting better all the time so the worry is if I buy one now (and they're not cheap) a new much better one might come out next year. So I'll wait until next year and so on... With petrol machines I don't think you have that worry.

you've got the battery setup sussed. plenty commercial machines & plenty 300 batteries.its only going to get better 👍

Does the petrol unit have more cutting power? Also , what did your petrol bill come to?

Do you prefer it to the 135

We're gonna rock down to electric avenue,and little to no impact with folk with early starts & Saturday morning jobs to all thats concerned.appy dayz.

Whats the power like on the FSA 120 compared to the 130?

when everybody is battery watch the energy companies wack the bills up !

if you use 7 batteries then you need more chargers

its horses for courses

2000 eurs in batteries

speak slower i didnt hear what batteries its like when jokes are too fast