sometimes it's not a bush that needs trimming but rather an unruly hedge that has vines growing
through it either way you're going to need a tool for that hello i'm Wanderer001 and this
is my review of the ego power plus brushless hedge trimmer ht2411 that particular number
refers to the hedge trimmer that comes with both the battery and a standard charger they do sell
the hedge trimmer here as a separate standalone with no battery do that it'll be slightly cheaper
you are getting this trimmer primarily because well either one you've already bought into the ego
product line and you're building out your tool set if you're just looking at this as
a standalone trimmer without purchasing into the ego product line it's still a very good trimmer
but it benefits more from if you're purchasing other ego products because well they have the
standard battery that goes through everything the overview for the trimmer here is that it is
42 inches long from the very back all the way to the tip of the blade there your cutting blade is
a 24 inch blade that has a cut capacity of one inch now in my case i am not super outdoors guy
i don't have a lot of things that this would normally be considered for trimming however i
do have several bushes that need to be trimmed back what we're gonna do is we're gonna take
this in segments and we're gonna zoom in on the back end here what we have here is actually the
handle portion as well as our battery to remove the battery it is very simple press on the release
it pops out and pulls out you'll notice that the trimmer actually can stay flat even without the
battery which some of the other ego products have a little difficulty doing the battery if
you get the combo pack that you get is the the 56 volt 2.5 milliamp battery however with the
trimmer it is going to be the old style of hey do i have enough power yes or no that's it you don't
have the gauge on this that might change in the future with different model numbers of this but
right now you only have a is this enough now this is the lighter battery that you get with a lot of
the ego products you can put again because they're interchangeable the larger 5 amp battery in here
it will make it a little heavier and a little harder to wield however admittedly with what i
use it for the 2.5 here is perfectly fine in fact i take the 2.5 that i have with my string trimmer
and then just after i do all my edging i pop it into here and then quickly do what little trimming
i have to do so i like the fact that i have extra batteries for this and the other ego products but
was not totally necessary with this i'm just gonna put the battery aside for a moment so that we
could talk about the rest of the handle here so again you have your release trigger right there
the back end here is made up of the standard ego gray green black motif the handle right here is a
slightly rubberized handle meaning that you know you'll have a grip on this which is good right
there that is actually the trigger for the hedge trimmer itself now this is a three point system
meaning you cannot actually actuate the hedge trimmer without having three points of contact
you have your lock mechanism up here and then a trigger and then your safety right there so if i
turn that slightly you'll notice that that's green trim right there you can grab it on either side or
up at the top but you need to have three points of contact before it will actually turn itself on
now the one problem i have with the three points of contact well really good for safety features
it does make it a little tricky depending on how you're trying to angle this i do appreciate
that the large bar here will allow you to grab in several different locations makes it a little
tricky sometimes although you probably should always have two hands on your hedge trimmer
at all times moving down a small little safety shield right there just in case you have anything
flying back at you and then we move on to the actual blade itself as i said before this is a
24 inch blade dual action so you have teeth that go both this way and this way so you have that
double cutting action which is very nice i like the fact that they have the actual blade there
that the teeth go in is yellow so it makes it easy to keep track of compared to some other things
and we're gonna bring it all the way down here to the tip because i actually like again the
fact that the blades or the teeth don't come all the way to the end you actually have this
cap so in case you happen to on something you don't have to worry about hurting it now
i know i'm touching this but i'm going to state i do not have the battery in this
keep that in mind you never want to be touching this even if you have a three-point system
don't touch these that's dangerous there also is right there kind of hard to see but there is
a nail hook right there and there's a sheath that goes over this which i'll show you in a moment but
you can actually hang this up on your wall to get it out of the way and off the floor of your shop
now if we bring this over right here this is where the mechanism for the blade actuation is actually
hidden away and simply by removing six screws the screws themselves are actually torques so
you're gonna have a special wrench to do that but you can remove that a little bit of oil and
you keep this maintained the blades themselves are also supposed to be designed in a way a way
that makes this easily serviceable and has the ability to be sharpened now myself i've been using
this for over one season so i got this last year and then used it for the entirety of my season
and am doing the review of it now i have yet to have to actually service this if we pull
back a little bit here as i said it comes with a plastic sheath for the blade itself simply
place over you may need to give the sides a little squeeze in order for that to go all the way home
and then the sheath itself also might be a little tricky to see has a cutout so that
you can hang this on the wall now i'm going to bring this a little closer because i want to
state that the sheath and the tip of the blade have to line up perfectly or if you do something
like that and don't notice your plastic sheath is up here and then your hole in your actual
blade is there and try and hang it up well the weight of this will have it fall off the wall
so i have done that once actually myself and i could say it wasn't more than 24 inches to the
floor but it did take a little hit and it worked perfectly fine because i did that really early on
in the season now one of the things with the battery-powered ego line is that it is super
quiet compared to its gas-powered competitors the one thing i will say about this the trimmer it's
probably quieter than the gas power equivalent of it however i've never had a gas powered trimmer
still working on you know being mr i own a house now and have to maintain everything myself guy
so i never had to have a gas powered one what i will say though is of all the ego power tools that
i've had so far this is actually the noisiest and i'm including the snow blower in that let
me give you a demonstration of what i'm talking about sound wise sound test ego power trimmer
are gas powered equivalents noisier most definitely is this still terribly noisy yes and no
as you heard it's noisy but not terrible and that is partially due to that high efficiency brushless
motor which has great run time and low vibration which helps to extend the motor's actual usable
life again this is the only product like this i've used before i haven't used a gas power equivalent
i will say even with shoulder issues being able to like move this around
as long as you're using the included if you bought the package deal battery is not terrible
it does not hurt to actually use for extended periods of time even though something like this
you just do what you have to do really quickly and you're done with that obviously if i'm going
to be talking about a tool i would have had to use the tool so let's use this as a jumping off
point to actually see this in action i am going to say this was filmed last season
never used something like this before feel free to mock my form in the comments section below
because i had no idea what i was doing i will say i did try this on several different types of
shrubbery including some ornamental grasses that i tried using my ego string trimmer on which was
not able to actually cut through however this no problem as you might imagine and we'll see
coming back we're just going to slide our battery into place if you've had any ego products there's
a set of rails you simply line them up and click into place if you're not trying to do that for
the camera it won't be as difficult that helps to balance this out because of the heavier battery
as you see i'm going to hold it at this point and you'll see it naturally wants to tilt back
which in some cases is good because you don't want to have to heft this all the time if it's
already naturally going back it makes it easier to maneuver your blade around one of the big things
with ego products they are not cheap part of that is you are paying for the interchangeable battery
technology that you get with ego the trimmer here is no different if you get the combo pack
like i did which comes with the trimmer itself the battery and the standard charger you're going to
be spending around 200 depending on when you are watching this it might come down in the future
if you just get the trimmer itself again that's going to be much lower than the combo pack because
ego products the majority of the price is actually tied to the battery pack and not the tool itself
i've had lots of ego products as you can see over there and i love them i'm not gonna lie
i know that some people feel that the quality assurance with them is a little hit or miss
so far every ego product that i have purchased i have had no problems with they do have an extended
warranty as long as you register them through ego's website so you should do that anyway i have
been using ego products for at least three years now and i love them and i love the fact that i can
use the batteries for every single one of them i don't have to worry if this dies i don't have to
time my charging i just pull this out grab one of the other batteries i have and i'm still good to
go again something like this depending on the size of your yard and what you're using it for
chances are this will be more than enough to get your job done with that being said i have been
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