I emptied hoarder homes and prepared overgrown trashed properties for 15 years, and became quite the brush and overgrowth clearing "expert" The best device I ever used was my own device I called the gas powered machete: It was a Redmax 32cc handheld weed trimmer with an edger head on it. I attached a table saw blade with carbide teeth with a homemade mount, thing was literally ridiculously awesome as well as potentially dangerous. I ran that thing hours a day for years and it never let me down or injured anyone. It was the absolute best for edging overgrown sidewalks, cutting brush, tree branches, bushes, viny entanglements, and you could whittle away stumps all the way underground in a hurry.
Also used it for chipping ice (it just makes little lines on bare concrete, it doesn't react with it because the blades spinning so fast it skips the surface) it also worked for debarking logs, cutting up mattresses and couches when they got stuck in hoarder houses, cutting carpet 😆, cutting drywall, cutting tree roots, and many other uses.
"I ran that thing hours a day for years and it never let me down or injured anyone". You know your tool is dangerous when thats one of the perks is not getting hurt after running it hahah. Sounds like a brush eating beast
I have an echo split boom trimmer, I use the edger, the brissle broom and the paddle broom. The make my life so simple! Hope you have a great weekend! Keep up the great work! See you Monday!
We have the largest gas powered Kombi power unit they make and love it! Big fan of the torque that electric provides and always felt this would enhance the Kombi system, have been looking at an electric chain saw and was on the fence if needing to change out the power unit but after watching this we are sold. Love that the attachments work on either gas or battery powered units. The pole saw is a beast for its size, takes a beating and keeps on going! We have several hundred feet of property that the county plows love to cover with gravel all winter while plowing snow, the paddle wheel does an amazing job cleaning the rocks up each spring. Does a great job also cleaning up along the lake shore after storms deposit a bunch of rock, sand and shells. We also use the brush cutter and grass trimmer attachments regularly. Thank you for the great content!
Stan i always enjoy seeing you. You are one of the very very few super successful YT content providers who still works hard everyday at his profession. The result is your videos do a highly effective job at educating as well as entertaining us due to your personality. Great job my Brother!! Your friend Larry C
The reciprocating saw head would be great around wooden fence posts rather than using a stringed weed whip. As you know Stan, I love new products but hate paying the high price of R&D. Great video and thanks for posting this for us.
They will tear any fence up I have a redmax split with a recip, blade head, trimmer head, broom head (with both brush options and tiller tines) and an edger The recip if you touch the fence will draw a line on the post or if it’s vinyl just cut threw it from the action of the blades moving it’s essentially just a circular hedge trimmer I would recommend them more for gravel driveways trimming down under pine trees when you don’t know what’s in the needles or if you just don’t want to throw grass/anything else I have a lot of rock gardens I cut with mine and they also edge really well if you don’t mind sharpening the knives a lot but you can edge sections or permanent bed edging like a driveway without damaging the plastic aluminum stone or whatever else it’s made of
That is a good point, don't need to sneak up on the fence. Also with chain links. I would like to see a brush blade like this instead of those 3 bladed ones.
I can see where that recripocating head is the bee's knees but also sometimes it won't be the best choice. It will leave a mark but won't tear stuff up so caution is still needed.
@@michaelmaker8169 they make different blades some blades are heavy grass like that 3 blade others are brush you can get them both with the machine or separately and just change them out also I love a recip for doing around chain link fencing it’s just not a no mark option for posts and fence panels that touch or are embedded into the ground to be honest though a 3 blade flail trimmer head would probably be a better option for long fence rows
Have been using electric Stihl Chainsaw with AP 300 battery for over a year now. Great machine with very good battery life. This saw will fell trees up to 16 inch or greater diameter . I use the saw daily in commercial capacity.
Poor guy went to get his gloves and he stopped in his tracks to talk to you. Most guys would have kept going for the gloves and made you wait. 😂 obvious that he’s passionate about the products and respects you. Put you first over his comfort. Solid guy.
Stan, awesome video. I've gone battery with Stihl with string trimmer, bar trimmer and chain saw. At 73yo and some physical limitations, these units allow me to continue maintaining my property and not having to deal with the xtra weight of the gas powered units. Thanks for sharing this video 👍👍👍👍👍😸🤗🐺
That’s the direction I’ve gone myself. Battery equipment works well for me, and I’m taking care of a fairly large piece of property with 600 feet of gated pipe in an orchard grass pasture.
Total sales man...He had the programmed speech going on from the start until the end...Ask him a question that's not in line with the routine speech and he locks up...haha
The reciprocator is really neat. Lots of potential. Liriope, pampas grass, underwater weed trimming, and general grass trimming work close to glass windows, doors, and people. I know other mfrs have these as well, I am kind of surprised they haven't caught on more with end users.
I run the brush blade. Did that on right of ways and found it to be best for all around. Even grass no string to worry about. Bought a new trimmer for just string around the house. Will cut up to 2" material. Small limbs. Trees love the blade. Can't wait to trying out more cutter attachments
Out here in the PNW, our volunteer Pacific Crest Trail maintenance crew has a FS110 and a mix of 4 or 5 FS240's & FS250's, all with the double harness and bike handles. We set 'em up with carbide tipped circular saw blades and they do a number on the huckleberries and salmonberries that try and overgrow the trail. We can clear half mile, 3/4 of a mile of brush from the trail in a volunteer length working day, 8 feet wide, with 2 or 3 of the brush saws humming along and another 4 or 5 people following along on clean up with rakes and pitch forks. Love our Stihl gear here in the PNW. In May, I'm going down to Nor Cal to spend a week on a volunteer crew clearing brush from the PCT.
How cool was this video, I love these videos with you trying new equipment. You are so honest , no fake stuff on this channel. Great job, love watching.
Neat tools, especially from one of my favorite German companies (I'm German), though I prefer gas powered tools/equipment. Thanks Stan for showing us this
Hold on for a min., these are supposed Pro use tools but at 5:50 I just heard the rep say battery time is 25-45 mins. So one man will need 12-16 batteries to do one 8 hour shift if hes working all day. 4 man crew, 48 plus frigg'n batteries. Maybe someone should invent a magic liquid we can keep in as many jugs as needed to "rechardge" a screaming banshee of 2-stroke linage. Prayers have been answered, we have such tech. Long live the wailing of pistons!
Seriously the stow-able bike handle is genius I’ll be getting at least 1 since I have an AP 300s and 2 AP 300 already. This makes the backpack battery useable for longer 🤔
Hey Stan, you had a quick clip of the bristle brush in the middle, like a teaser, but after discussing and attaching it you didn't include any video. Forgot that clip, perhaps? Or footage not worth including?
I use the gas powered Kombi power broom all the time. Would like to see a power snow shovel head Kombi. Similar to a Snow Joe electric snow shovel. 🇨🇦🥃🤙
Trimming cricks, culverts and fence lines, is how we started; and got our "mowers on peoples lawns" 😉 lol If youre taking down reeds, echo 1.05 (+) shaped. A N D run the blade on top of the TrimmerHead. Keep the string guard in place, and always wear Thick/cutproof pants, eye protection & ear protection. LAST but not least, HAVE FUN, crank up the tunes, and make some money!!
"Keep the string guard in place, and always wear Thick/cutproof pants, eye protection & ear protection. LAST but not least, HAVE FUN, crank up the tunes, and make some money!!" I like how you think!👊
Though I'm a big Husqvarna fan and love my 535LK, have to say that Stihl have a better hedgecutter attachment and the blades on the reciprocating attachment appear far superior to the Husky!
The round hedge trimmer was really cool. That could be a real game changer for pros concerned with debris being thrown. Maybe silly question but does the price include battery and charger? Also did you get a price difference between the straight shaft and the combi? Thanks Stanley, you ARE the best, God bless.
Stan they won’t tell you echo and stihl are interchangeable hence stecho it’s called still in Fla 87 here today fresh shrimp tacos and some adult beverages as I said other day done with the cold this year
2 days ago I was wading through snow waste deep. The ASV guys brought their monsterous ASV RT -135 up to my cabin and I got it buried on the side of a hill forestry mulching. Hit a frozen log and she slid right down on me. That was not fun. Can't wait until we get through the frost here and back to summer work ourselves. Enjoy the shrimp tacos- they sound awesome.
Totally off topic but could you do a video on things like what you think is the best cold weather thermals/ gear, hot weather clothing/ gear, safety gear/ accessories, replacement boot inserts..... (or if you already did can you provide a link to that video)
When they make it so you can install chargers in the trucks or the trailers then I would consider it. Needs to be able to charge multiple of the batteries
@@Dirtmonkey I’d love to not have to buy all the stuff for mixed gas, honestly would like to go all electric in the blowers and weeders, would save a lot of money. I’m sure most would agree with me on that.
That golf course groomer i almost bought 2 different times. We do a lot of trim work near gravel but I still think a dialed line trimmer is more efficient. HOWEVER for a less experienced user that groomer would equal less insurance claims
I’d really like one of those, I have a really old petrol version and it’s getting to the point where I don’t know if it will start on the day or not. Going to need a lot of batteries though, and how do you carry on charging them from a vehicle all day?
I find the batteries are very expensive and don't last long (20mins) for their very heavy weight and stuck with petrol. Hopefully they reduce in price over time as competition grows.
You need to watch out using the reciprocators near gravel. If they are anything like red max, their replacement blades are super expensive, and break easily
interesting....I work at a golf course and I didn't know that the reciprocator was used as a trimmer...we would use it as an edger and bury the edge in the ground 😂
@@Dirtmonkey Runs like new,40:1 mix its whole life! T-20 ,Best trimmers ever made! I grew up working on a golf course,spent my entire first summer string trimming,full throttle pretty much all day!
That triple blade is nice, use the two blade whit a gas one, but it surprise me this electric one. wonder how a gas one whit the triple blade will do compared to the electric one whit triple blade.
I think the fixed head unit with the death star and a reciprocating head would be the ticket for me. Got an FS56 and the white blades are pretty sweet. I do hate their string head what a piece of you know what that one is OK in fairness if you wind it right you can make it work by slamming it into the ground, most of the time. Still those plastic blades rock and roll with little wear the one piece one looks even nicer.
Love your videos Stan! My only two small issues I have is, you need a special tool to take the heads off I think it would he more ideal to be able to use a flat head, also the charger takes 45 minutes to charge a battery but you only get 25 minutes of full blast run time, using it as a professional it would be ideal to have two batteries and be able to just keep switching them out on charger.
we eat the high fuel prices like most small companies until we can justify adding the surcharge. But their is always a lag time becuase of consumer expectations.
Did you hear that turbine spool up? The battery life is still a sticking point for me. Needing 4 batteries to get through a workday is tuff to swallow.
This is for all the people that are starting a Business I bought two steals about two years ago one edger and one Weedwhacker my biggest mistake was that I did not get a Comby on my edger or Weedwhacker instead I just got two single units now I have to go buy a third unit in order to get a hedge trimmer, flower bed redefine, pull saw, Broom…
@@Dirtmonkey I love them they always run perfectly super easy the maintain and the dealer service is really good… there is not anything to Complain about them, they are a little bit expensive but definitely worth the money
When wil Stihl make a zero turn mower like EGo? I have a couple of the AP300 tools the string trimer and the blower. They are bit pricy but it is a good product.
The string head that he shows at the 315 Mark I hate I have probably owned 10 different models of Stihl trimmers in my life and I believe I have six different Stihl pieces of equipment right now from the different lines. Maybe more. But I have ordered an older head for my string Trimmer Through my local dealer Kaser equipment in Knoxville Illinois because that one that he showed at the 315 mark burns through string. I also will fight battery operated equipment till the last second that I can find mixed oil and new old equipment.
I live in CA and have 14 Stihl Kombi attachments and 1 power head (Gas), the law is that you're allowed to keep your existing gas equipment, but you won't be able to buy new gas equipment, many guys I've seen talk about it on YT are hoping this law gets repealed and this law may be pushed back until feasible.
1:36 FSA means Fixedhead Stand Alone (1 piece unit real marketing genius to confuse the customer), KMA means Kombi Multihead Attachment unit system so you can just buy an attachment for it. (MEI) Minnestoa Equipment-Rogers~Sales Rep. Eric what i don't like about any of these machines is they are specifically designed for the optimum comfort of people who are 5'4" or shorter. at 6'4" all these pole trimmer machines are extremely hard on the back, hard on the arms and automatically put the machine at an angle 45º into the dirt, are extremely difficult to reach under pines and cause you to be bent over all the time and not have a nice easy swing parallel to the ground. i specifically bought the kombi system with an extension and then the trimmer head attachment that is only 12" so now i have a nice 8' boom that puts me parallel to the ground and not having to bend over at all, gives me a nice smooth swing and takes alot of the machines weight off my arms having to hold it up like i'm a baseball batter at home plate and walk all over 25-50 acres like that all day. that circular blade is great for rough cutting especially for pencil like scrub brush and also for thistles and other prickly weeds. do not use any of the brush cutters on slopes over 30 degrees as falling and having feet and legs slide into the blades before they stop a few seconds after your butt is resting on the ground is an excellent way to cut flesh Achilles tendons and muscles in the legs and feet. do not so anything but flat ground while wet or dew or iced/snow. i have slide 30 feet down a slight decline and right on to the ponds boulder wall while using to trim down out of control bushes that were let go for 10-15 years while on dry grass in the middle of summer in late afternoon on a 15º decline. make sure you have near new to very good tread on your boots.
Hi Stan, sorry to message here. You done a quick video clip on a FLEX battery light with stand. But I just can't find it to re-watch it. It's something I'd like to buy but just can't find them. Any chance you could drop a link please. Thanks in advance. 👍
that reciprocator blade for in between houses where dogs are tied out etc..lol.. no throwing, making dogs scared..lol...they need to send it to their Ocho Rios dealer for me as a present
This gear is still very expensive. The AR 3000 L is the biggest battery backpack they make ($1500) and it has an advertised run time according to my local shop of 85-526 minutes. I’m willing to bet in thick grass at full throttle the machine probably gets just over 1 hour. I cut down weeds all day long during the busy season. I run an FS 240 and a KM 131. I may buy one of these KMA electric units for smaller jobs because they are nice and quiet but they are not even close to replacing gas yet. I’ve already got the Milwaukee weed wacker with 4 large batteries and I only use it for edging lawns and tiny weed wacking jobs like 1000 square feet or less. I wouldn’t be surprised if the 3000 L is fairly powerful but the run time seriously lacks for most professionals. Also how about having a 20 pound backpack on with an annoying cord connected when your hedge trimming?
