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| blackwolf Member Since: 03 Nov 2009 Location: South West England Posts: 17361   
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Some of my Milwaukee M18 batteries are now I guess about 7 years old, and I have never had a failure. I have had one charger fail, but not (yet) a battery. Some of my tools (9" angle grinder, 1" and 3/4" impact wrenches, mag drill) are especially power hungry but the batteries seems to stand up astonishingly well to the duty cycles.
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27th May 2021 7:24pm |
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| custom90 Member Since: 21 Jan 2010 Location: South West, England. Posts: 20325
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My tools are Bosch 18v bought 6 years ago or so, has lasted well. If I get more in future I would be looking at Milwaukee though to be honest. Their tools are really going places.
They have some pretty neat new kit developing too which I like. We have a Stihl KM130R combi 2stroke, (now a 131R. since then they have available). Does everything we want with a LOT of power and zero downtime at all for the biggest jobs, with fuel your good to go and go. User fatigue is the limiting factor as to when to stop. Best machine I’ve used, but probably more than what most would require. I would say depends on the use and size of job, a small job a battery or two will probably cut it or even mains power but for mid large to large jobs fuel. I use George Carr Power Products online, official Stihl dealer. ⭐️⭐️God Bless the USA 🇬🇧🇺🇸 ⭐️⭐️ |
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27th May 2021 8:55pm |
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| MR_JAMES Member Since: 10 Oct 2013 Location: ESSEX Posts: 248 
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I work in a garden centre and sell this stihl range all day. Its not bad considering its all made in china, we don't get many come back under warranty. Something to remember is that the batteries will not work below 5 degrees - so in winter keep them warm indoors before use. Beware its not really repairable when it goes wrong, you throw it and buy a new one. We had a long reach hedge cutter come in for repair but even with diagostic equipment telling us to replace multiple components it did not work properly, Where as with a petrol machine you can have it repaired. But then you save money as you can't service battery powered machines. 1953 80"
1987 mini city e 2011 90" |
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27th May 2021 9:46pm |
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| Bluest Member Since: 23 Apr 2016 Location: Lancashire Posts: 4206 
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In the end got the M18 Milwaukee QuikLok power head with brush cutter, 5ah battery and charger kit. With their Redemption deal offering the long reach hedge trimmer for free it was too good a deal to pass up. Additionally I bought another 5ah battery and the long pole chainsaw thing as well.
All three attachments work well and battery life is good. One 5ah battery is just about sufficient for my garden either strimming or hedge trimming, but it’s good to have the 2nd as a back up and to cycle them round. The trick with it is to use the lower of the 2 speed settings unless the extra power is needed. The lower speed I reckon has more than double the run time of high speed and is sufficient for most things. 2007 110 TDCi Station Wagon XS |
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