hi welcome back to garden ninja now today Ryobi have sent me these, now theyr'e a
little bit heavy one hand and these are the Ryobi cordless hedge trimmers featuring
the 'one battery' which can be used in all of their tools in their range. So they've
sent me these now these are over hedge clippers here come with the one battery
which goes in there now I've not put that in for safety reasons yet but the
one battery can be used with a whole host of tools across their range saving
the need for all those adapters that you usually see in your garages across
different tools but I'm really intrigued as to how long the battery lasts the
quality of the tool here how well it cuts hedges and other benefits and
potential drawbacks of this the ryobi cordless hedge trimmer so come on let's
get testing!
So I just want to show you this rotating handle so you push this blue button in
here and you can rotate it 45 degrees click on 90 degree is quick and what
this will do is it'll mean that instead of if you put it back to zero if you
wanted to rotate to 90 degrees all the strain is gonna be in your wrist and
your bicep because you're basically twisting your wrists to twist this.
Whereas when you move this instead it means there's less of a twisting your
wrist but it's far easier to get you there the
90 degree or the 45 degree against the hedge and it goes both ways so dependent
whether you're left or right-handed this will work for you! This is the battery
from the ryobi, it's a standard plug adaptor that you plug in but then if you
see this lime green battery which again really stands out clips into this unit
here you've got all these charging buttons that show you exactly whether
it's full half full but the big important part of the review is that the
battery life you know slipping the hedges lasted about 30 minutes which I
think it's a good solid time I've got another set that lasts for about 40
minutes but they don't cut through as large a branch so the battery pack on
the ryobi which is here takes about 80 minutes to fully charge and there's a
charging dock that gives you different lights depending on whether it's empty
half full or four so it's quite easy to find out how much juice you've got in
your battery so you push it in with a reassuring click and then you're good to
go now it features two sorts of safety measures you've got this first switch
here and you've got another switch here under a handle and when you combine the
two it will start first things you need safety goggles on there we go
protective gloves steel toe cap boots before you start to hedge your clip
because safety is key once you've done that you can take hold of the first
you'll hear that click the second one and then it will start up
so just finish clipping my hedges with these the ryobi cordless hedge trimmer
and I'm suitably impressed now they'll cut up to 22 mm of
branch which means if you've left your hedges a little bit longer like I did
the other month they will cut through thicker branches than standard hedge
clippers both the cutting edges move at the same time meaning you get a really
clean cut with fewer snags than you would with other hedge clippers they
weigh in at 2.7 kilograms which is heavier than my other hedge clippers
that are also battery-powered but I think it's just a fair trade-off given
the cutting style and the robustness of hedge clippers I really like the fact
you can angle a handle and it really saves you biceps and arms and shoulders
because there's nothing worse and with other hedge clippers once you've been
cutting for say 15 minutes and you're twisting it weird awkward angles and
it's like so that's a really nice feature and I'm pleased with that what
I'd like to do is to be able to sample some other tools so that I can
really feedback on the one battery their running times around about half an hour
if you're not struggling through too many thick branches I've imagined it if
you're going to cut through much thicker material the battery power may drop
slightly but I'll be emptied to see if that works
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