STRIMMING
Barry's Allotment
okay welcome back to barry's allotment i'm barry and this is my allotment
um i've got a problem grass too much of it and it's too long so i've got a new toy a bosch
battery powered cordless strimmer i'm gonna unbox it and then we'll do some strimming
you have to admit there is something the welsh would describe as
lush about long grass unfortunately allotment committees do not have a welsh vocabulary
or attitude so the long grass has gotta go
okay very easy to put together so easy i didn't even need to resort to reading the instructions um
yeah i needed uh the only thing that i needed that wasn't supplied is a phillips screwdriver to um
fasten on the um the guard so right now the moment of truth let's test it out on some grass
okay first impressions it's amazing power right let's crack on i've got a lot of grass to strim
so it works perfectly straight out of the box as you'd expect the line looks very easy to adjust
and exchange i've bought a spare cartridge and spare line it's got a cutter on the guard so
it will automatically adjust to the correct length i didn't think i'd use this feature
but you can rotate the head 90 degrees to vertical which is actually very handy for
up and down fences and sheds the battery makes it very well balanced technically it's got two speeds
one and two but being trigger happy i've just been full speed the whole time
so I've strimmed most of the allotment and I'm out of juice now the blurb said you've got up to 40
minutes out of a single charge i'm not so sure i didn't time it with a stopwatch maybe i'll do that
another time i guess i got at least 20 minutes maybe up to 30 minutes but here's the thing i
used it flat out i've been faffing about with a camera so i couldn't time it i used it flat out
and wet grass and weeds and other plants even some brambles so first impressions after the first time
using it very impressed i guess what i need to do is compare it to comparable products the closest
being a mains powered swimmer or a petrol-powered strimmer but here's the thing its the first time I've
used it it's brand new so i should be impressed with a brand new strimmer and i've got a pile
of gadgets that i was very impressed with when they were new and they turned out to be useless
i've got a shed full of broken mowers that i was very impressed with when they were new and after
a few short few weeks they fell apart bits fell off and turned out to be very disappointing so
what i should do is use this for the next few weeks it's it's summer technically here in england
as you can see warm sunny overcast and raining all at the same time it is actually starting to rain
so i'll get a good amount of use out of this over the next few weeks perfect grass and weed growing
season and then i'll get back to you with a comprehensive review if it's still working
it's now september so the end of summer beginning of autumn i've been using the bosch 36 volt
cordless streamer all summer now when i've needed to so i thought now would be the perfect time to
give you my thoughts opinions and little review because hopefully the grass and weeds will all die
down now for autumn winter and i won't need to do much more streaming this year to cut long story short
very impressed so impressed in fact I went and got the mower too but that's a whole another story and
a whole new video so my review of this when compared to a mains powered strimmer or a
petrol-powered strimmer it is effectively the same as a mains powered trimmer bosch make mains power
streamer they've taken one change the power supply i guess it's a battery instead of a uh
a mains cable however they cost considerably more than the mains powered equivalent they
work just as well as the ones i've used so if you have the option of using a mains if you've
got mains power and you you know you're within you can connect i haven't got mains power here
it's an allotment so my options are either rechargeable battery powered or petrol
if i had the option you'd save a lot of money getting the mains power equivalent but that said
it works just as well as a mains powered one if you don't so does it work as well as a petrol one
almost on on an allotment with just grass and weeds you're not going to notice any difference um
i guess boss bosch make good mains powers strimmer's if you compared this to say an inexpensive petrol
one it's gonna be it's gonna be as good compared to a commercial high-end expensive strimmer it's
not as powerful but the main drawback of battery power and this probably goes for battery-powered
anything runtime i only get about between 20 and 30 minutes out of this so that's enough and
it's lightweight that's another bonus it's lighter weight than a petrol one
and probably better balance than a than a mains one because of the battery on the end so
yeah the drawback is runtime you can overcome that by getting more batteries but they're not
cheap you'll have to google how much they currently cost i've got the two amp version
you can get higher capacity batteries so you can get a four amp version in theory it would run for
for twice as long they take about an hour and a half to charge so if you got through
yourself three batteries in theory you could put one on charge constantly you could run
continuously until the thermal cutout kicks in but until the battery technology comes down in price
and or the uh the petrol ones go up in price or the fuel becomes hard to obtain
then i can't see commercial gardeners switching over um but for an allotment for for anything
the size of a garden certainly a suburban garden these are these are these are fantastic
um but yeah if you're planning on strimming you know the verge of a motorway
or a football field you're either gonna need a lot of spare batteries or a petrol one unfortunately
at this stage until the technology improves or the prices of spares come down so anyway if you're
planning to buy an electric one a battery one or a petrol one i hope you found this um useful in your
decision the other thing i would say that's great about this is the fact that it splits in half
especially for storage in a shed i mean and if you're an allotment you can't really store
anything valuable here so you can put it in a bag and you could you could carry this it's light
enough to carry even on you know public transport if you've got a walk to and from your allotment
but yeah you can easily put it in the back of the of the motor in a bag fitting in a big
shopping bag right thanks for watching i hope you found this useful and I'll see you next time Toodles!
Barry's Allotment