Been waiting for this to come on special for a while and noticed today it has dropped so I finally purchased. Hope it goes ok!
Update - Tested this with a 2.5 Ah battery today and it went really well. I had sparks flying everywhere but the blade still seems like it would last ages.
LOL
Skin only 😌
Ozito PXC 18V 2.5Ah Battery and Charger PXBC-25B - Kit only $25.
So $175 all up with a battery + charger.
Shame I can’t use my Aldi battery with this right? 😆
@prankster: Someone sells adaptors on Gumtree.
https://www.gumtree.com.au/s-ad/brisbane-city/power-tools/al…
@allwrightythen: Thanks for that. I guess that guy is selling it for $30 then I might as well just buy the battery and charger from above link and that was $25 😅
The 2.5ah battery won’t get you a lot of runtime. I would suggest the 4ah for anything expected to take longer than 15 mins
If you dont want to edge ever again, sure.
Buy now, edge later.
Not sure.
But this is certainly a helpful blower.
https://www.bunnings.com.au/ozito-pxc-18v-cordless-blower-ki…
Honestly people, grow up. I have a real bone to pick with some of you
Not sure but might help cleans up the bush a little bit.
Edger cum bush trimmer
Not sure if it would give as good a cut as this though -
https://www.bunnings.com.au/masport-80cc-4-stroke-petrol-edg…
It's pretty good for a budget edger
I seconded.
Ive got one and love it. I havent tried a ryobi or better brand but you cant go wrong for the price
does it make you happier and last longer? asking for a friend
I dont love it that much!
same experience from me
Me three
Any cheap replacement blades for this?
The blade at Bunnings is $20 https://www.bunnings.com.au/ozito-190mm-edger-blade_p0121683
2 years on one blade for me and i could have got more out of it.
Too much edging or not enough?
How do you replace the blades? I have one that shorted, given a replacement, and looking to salvage the blades.
Had mine for 2 years. Just fit new blade last weekend. Made some tweaks to the rear wheel as there was a lot of lateral movement when rolling atop concrete edge.
What sort of adjustments?
just some spacers between wheel hub and bracket. Stopped the slop
Thanks, I'll keep that in mind.
Never used one of these, I always wondered how a spinning blade goes over time when you continually bang them into the concrete edge?
Slowly wear away. Takes a few years. A new one is ~$20.
Generally once maintaining a decent edge, the blade does not rub much unless you are not paying attention when using it.
Wears down quickly for me, about 4 months between blade replacements for a big suburban corner block. You'll know to change when you have to make two passes to cut an edge clean.
@rokufan: Ahhh interesting! I do a corner block too (footpath +curb) , plus the neighbors run of edging next door, and my path to the front door. I edge every time I mow but that's fortnightly at best.
I'm still on my original blade after a few years but have a spare ready to go.
My blade rarely hits the concrete though. And not much dirt gets in the edge gap itself anymore so it's mostly just cutting grass.
Keen to know how you got the wheel off, is there a nut behind the plastic wheel cover?
Nice! I just bought this 3 wks ago but haven’t opened it, anyone had success in claiming a refund of things like this for the price drop? I can return and rebuy it I guess, I am also a PowerPass member.
just return and rebuy. Easiest.
Return and rebuy it. Did this with a mower price drop and didn't even have to bring it in. Just brought the receipt and they did it in same transaction so wound up refunding the difference.
@rdhupar @SydStrand I also bought it 2weeks back but I used it once.
Wondering if they can refund difference OR accept the return and I can buy new one?
What to do?
Buy a new one, return it with the original receipt?
@ATreeFiddy: thanks @ATreeFiddy will bunnings accept my return for a product which I have used once? BTW, I have the receipt of that one.
@bluespider: doubtful for a change of mind - "All returned goods must be unused, in original packaging and in saleable condition"
https://www.bunnings.com.au/policies/returns
Buying a new one at the sale price then returning it with the original non-sale price receipt will achieve the same result though.
Been thinking about so might pull the trigger as have a 50 gift card to burn.
Thanks OP, I've been on edge about purchasing this
Quality on these is barely acceptable. Fine for a small yard but if you have a big lot to do you'll hate the lack of power.
5 year warranty makes it risk free if you ask me. All my Ozito DIY tools have been great for the price point. Had some batteries fail and were replaced on the spot.
I have a big yard (900sqm) and love mine, wish I'd got it sooner. The first time it took alot of patience with the back and forth due to the limited power but after the first time, when the edge is established, its perfect for maintaining it.
This or the 18v Ryobi?
Depends which ecosystem you are in or want in.
In neither ecosystem but need to buy a mower and edger at least in the near future. Realistically not going to go too far into the tools. My gut is telling me to just go for the $400 ryobi kit you can get from bunnings
That Ryobi kit looks to be good value. Keep in mind the line trimmer (while very useful) is much more of a pain for edging, compared to an actual edger. But even if you later got the Ryobi edger later, the overall value is still great. The actual edgers seem pretty similar but I have not used the Ryobi one.
I favour Ozito because it's often a bit cheaper for similar performance, and it is often price matched by Bunnings, so there are good deals to be had here and there. So if buying many more tools, Ozito might be cheaper overall.
In your case, I'd just get the Ryobi. But there's no huge downside to multiple ecosystems. And Ozito batteries are often very cheap. Right now you could grab the Ozito edger and 2x 2.5Ah batteries for the same price as the Ryobi edger and just have both.
Do you have any existing tools/batteries?
Best to chose an ecosystem and stick with it
Currently own no tools in any ecosystem.
Righto, time to choose one and jump in with both feet.
The starter brands seem to be Ryobi, Ozito or the Aldi brand.
I've got Ryobi and never had any issues. They cost a little more than Ozito but are a recognised global brand so would expect longer life and support. Aldi stuff is hit and miss on when you can buy it so that doesn't work for me.
@1st-Amendment: Best bit about the Aldi sales is Bunnings just price matches it anyway, so you can get Ozito gear without needing to worry about when Aldi do a sale to pick up more batteries or other pieces.
@1st-Amendment: The Ozito PXC range is Einhell, so also a global brand. Just Bunnings rebadges it as Ozito here.
Ozito is designed in Germany, vs Ryobi in Japan. Both made in China.
Really both are good, and have some tools that are fantastic, and others that are average.
Ozito is a bit more focused on the lower end (with a price that reflects that) and Bunnings don't seem to import a few of the higher end options.
Haven't used this one, but I have the Ryobi. Can vouch for it. It's done an excellent job cutting through thick grass. Does bog down here and there but you just make another pass over. Mines seen some heavy work and it's been great.
For a cheaper unit, I've been very pleased with it.
worth the extra $50?
I would say so. Ozito stuff is alright, but in this case I would get the Ryobi. More versatile battery system, in my opinion.
Ryobi all the way, quality is far better. For this tool, RRP between the two isnt very different, $179 versus $199.
My dads has the ryobi one and i have the ozito one. Without branding you’d swear they are from the same factory. Ryobi stuff these days is basically an in house bunnings brand where they charge a small premium for people who turn their nose up at ozito.
Which is hilarious, considering ryobi's junk product history pre li-ion
I have used one of these for a couple of years. It's a bit expensive IMO (even discounted), a bit plasticky, but works well enough and is easy to use. It's much faster and neater than using a line or blade style trimmer to edge so I am now quite fond of mine.
Keep in mind it's designed to maintain an existing edge, not hack out an edge through years of growth. It works best if done every time you mow.
It's relatively low power, so if clearing an edge for the first time take it super slowly or it will bog down. Ideally use a 4Ah or 2.5Ah battery to get full power. Do a full run at max height before lowering the height and going again. It also works much better if the ground is relatively dry, otherwise mud and grass builds up under the blade cover. If that is happening, bring a screwdriver to clear it out every now and then.
If like me, you waited till the grass edges were just about touching in the middle of the footpath, you will need to hack it out with something else first, as the edger won't deal with super thick, old, muddy growth. Borrow a petrol edger, or sharpen up the edge of an old shovel and clear it by hand.
Use a reciprocating saw, $69.
+1.
I have kikuyu grass which has those horribly resilient runners that go across the pavement. I used a reciprocating saw which sliced through them like butter.
Then went over it with a line trimmer.
That was one of the things I tried! A shovel is what I recommend to others, but not the only thing I experimented with.
For thee reciprocating saw, the grass was too thick and heavy, and tended to just jiggle rather than cut. I will have to try and find pics - it was up to 10 cm thick in places, and most was about 5cm at the edge of the path. With a trillion kikuyu runners, and dirt, in there.
I actually tried to hire someone to do it, but no one would even quote the job. (it was during Covid lockdowns, so my options were more limited)
(below copied from where I have written this story before)
I have a corner block, so 10m of edging for the footpath + another 50m for the gutter. And a bit over 50m for the front and rear paths, and one side of the driveway. I used an empty wheelie bin to dump the grass in, and wheeled it out the pack to the compost pile. It took 5 full wheelie bin trips all up.
I borrowed a petrol edger but it died after a few minutes (not from the job - it was good at it - but bad fuel and a clogged carby) and I really wanted to get it done that day. And underestimated the job!
I already had the Ozito edger, but it clogged up too fast, and was too slow. So I tried the tools I had. A circular saw just caught and either jammed or clogged. Reciprocating saw, multifunction tool, jigsaw all didn't really cut without needing a lot of force, and even then it was slow. An old corded hedge trimmer kinda worked, but didn't like all the dirt. Same was true for an old corded chainsaw and I didn't feel like ruining my Ozito 36V chainsaw.
A camping machete and old camping cleaver made me look like a maniac to people walking / driving by, but kind of worked. They didn't cut much each hack though. A hatchet was ok but slow and it was hard to keep near the edge. Axe was too heavy and slow. An old shovel with the front edge regularly sharpened with a flap disk on a cordless angle grinder did best out of the manual options. That way I could use my legs and body weight, and cut a decent amount at a time, then shoevel it out of the way.
I finished one side of the foot path and the other paths manually, but still had the worse (water runoff side so more dirth and thicker growth) of the footpath, and next to the curb to do. 100m worth. The curb was especially annoying because my technique of jumping on a sharp shovel worked better on flat ground, compared to in / next to the gutter. I did some tests, and thanks to my sub par co-ordination it wasn't much fun, and I kept nearly twisting my ankle.
So I took a break, to try and think how I could modify some of the tools I had. I had few (profanity) left to give about safety.
The first experiment was an old circular saw blade on an brushless angle grinder, with no guard. Crazily dangerous, and it tended to catch and try and escape, or gouge the concrete. Combined with a wheeled mechanics seat, I had visions of getting pulled along by the angle grinder, neatly cut grass flying to the side. Reality was not so kind, and I could choose between holding it steady enough with both hands (but the switch latched to on) or having it turn off if I let go, but not being able to hold it very well. So I chose to try something else before losing any fingers.
I figured the circular saw blade didn't have enough mass, which is why it tended to catch rather than cut the runners. So I found an old unused edger blade that was in the garage when I moved in, and a washer that allowed it to be mounted to the angle grinder with minor modification. Now I had half a kilogram of rapidly spinning metal, and I of course sharpened the edges.
This glorious setup sliced through the grass runners like they were not even there. And took chunks out of the concrete footpath, and almost took chunks out of me. I had basically just built a decently powerful edger, but with no guard or safety, and one that required keeping body parts close to the spinning metal, and stream of high velocity dirt / rocks / concrete chunks that fired out towards me. I was too scared to try the other way, so debris would be flung away from me, because then it would be trying to fling itself at me. I briefly considered mounting this monstrosity to an old moving trolley, but didn't love the toll it was taking on my angle grinder so regrouped.
I tried a thinner section of metal mounted to one of the Ozito plastic blade trimmers. It worked better than expected, because the thin metal sliced well. But quickly the metal fatigued and went off on a new adventure, and I contemplated not being an idiot anymore.
Pushing that thought back down into my subconscious, I went back to my edger blade, and mounted it on the end of a section of 12mm threaded rod. I put some plastic conduit over the rod, so I could hold it near the spinning end for more control. Then I ground some flat spots on the other end, used it with my brushless cordless drill. It was slower than with the angle grinder, but a lot more controllable. And most importantly, I was to the side of the spinning death blade, and out of the debris zone. I had one hand on the drill (and trigger) and the other hand guiding the blade end. It worked pretty well, and only felt mildly dangerous in comparison to my previous ideas. I found it still tended to catch, but I refined it by trimming the blade to be slightly shorter, and with a sharp, curved front edge. That way it would not dig in, and was much easier to control.
So again I had just made a much more dangerous edger. But I liked to think of it as a precision edger! Probably the biggest benefit was no safety guard to get clogged, and modifying the Ozito edger would have given the same result, but had me further from the spinning metal. But I felt bad about pulling it apart when new - especially considering the price.
On my knees (with kneepads) for the footpath, and on my rolling mechanics chair for the curb, I worked my way around the edges. The drill edger combo still flung dirt in all directions, so my hair and beard was full if it, but at least none was bouncing past my safety glasses anymore. I then shovelled out the grass that was cut free, and did another round. After that, I could use the Ozito edger, but it tended to clog with dirt until my new edge had a change to dry out.
I now maintain the edge with the Ozito edger each time I mow and it's very quick and easy. But I miss getting to try and DIY terrible spinning death tools.
Where can I find more to read from this genre
@itscyanide: Haha, I will be sure to let you know if I write up more (mis)adventures.
In the meantime, here is a silly video I made a while back "testing" an Ozito blade trimmer from that $29 deal. It's a bit tame in comparison though.
Ive been trying to slowly replace my gear with Ryobi tools as I just have more 5amp batteries, but got dammit Ozzito. You always got me crawling back
We have Ozito PXC tools, however brushcutter is 2 stroke Ryobi due to having a big corner block. I was looking at the Ryobi expand it Edger for $149, however…
dammit Ozzito (sic). You always got me crawling back
You just reminded me that I have the expand it line trimmer!
You don’t have a 3d printer yet? Get one and that’s the end of battery kidnapping
I do, ive just never bothered doing it. How hard is it? need to do it for my Dyson
Can you explain how a 3D printer helps?
You can print adaptors that change the fitting to fit whatever battery you have most.
waiting for the ryobi to go on special now that im on the ryobi ecosystem with the hedge trimmer
Holy moly!
I got the edger, blower and 4ah battery with charger for $79 a few months ago. I suspect it was one of those clearance sort of things?
I literally just bought it for the battery and edger. I don't need the blower as I already have one.
Yah me too, but for $99. I've used it once or twice but usually just make do with the little hedge clipper thingie. Not sure i'd pull the trigger at this price. If you had 20+ metres maybe that changes the value equation a bit.
Yeah, I never used it as well. I might off load it given it's still in the box! I will just keep the battery.
Hey mate. Where are you based? I would be keen as i dont need the battery
That was a good deal. Ended up giving the battery and blower to family to start their own pxc collection
Apparently there's still one of those combos left in Metro Sydney (Northmead) though the price may have changed by now. Worth a punt if your local has one https://www.ozbargain.com.au/comment/14327803/redir
I just use my petrol line trimmer to edge by holding it at the required angle. I suppose this would be easier, but wonder if I really need it.
I found it physically hard to keep the steadiness required for edging using a line trimmer. The edger made things way easier. Wouldn't go back.
Anyone that has this edger - is it ok to use around corners? I live on a corner block so assuming it's ok for that (not just a straight line thing)
Yep I have a corner block and it's fine for the curved bit.
Also, do you walk fowards with this or backwards?
Forward.
Used the Ozito mower for the first time yesterday, it was amazing. Yesterday I was eying off the line trimmer to finish the job, didn't even know these things existed! Goddamn, I don't want to buy 2 more tools, haha.
Ego 56v > Ryobi 36v > Ryobi 18v > Ozito 18v.
While this might be true, for the average home user ozito is more than enough with 5 year warranty.
I can easily buy another tool with money saved by avoiding ego for example.
Fair point - it’s definitely horses for courses. Even the Ozito will be are marked improvement on using a manual edger or a line trimmer for anyone with a decent amount of edges. I’m no brand snob and have plenty of Ozito gear, but for a tool I use every other weekend, the 36v and 56v power makes everything so much better.
The $208 I paid for the Ego Powerhead and edger tool is amongst the best money I’ve spent on any garden tool. Whilst my better half prefers the 36v Ryobi because it is so light, the Ego is a serious bit of all-metal kit and creates faster, deeper and neater edges - and for the price I paid, has been awesome. All the moreso since it’s a multi-tool that accommodates other attachments as well.
The $208 I paid for the Ego Powerhead and edger tool
Must have got a good deal as a quick google search shows me that the ego power head skin cost $249, the edger attachment $229 and batteries look to be $200+ unsure with/without charger, or how many are required to run 56v.
Doesnt seem to be compareable to this $148 ozito edger.
@nepalesesquirrel: It was indeed a good deal for a Skin Only tool - with no cost to be factored for battery or charger, just like the Ozito in this comparable deal. Ego retail isn’t cheap, so it pays to keep an eye out for posts such as www.ozbargain.com.au/node/761804 or https://forums.whirlpool.net.au/archive/2578749
In my use case, the small $60 premium over this Ozito unit was a valid and preferable comparison, but I get that may not be the case for someone who wasn’t already in the ecoysystem, had to pay retail or fel compelled by confirmation bias to claim that it is impossibly anyone could benefit from garden tools with more power than 18v. Some people choose to neg comments or value propositions about products they’ve never tried, some choose the glass half full…
@UncleRico: So the ozbargain post you quoted was $255 compared to this at $148, so more like $107, rather than $60, unless that was a deal hidden somewhere in the whirlpool forums that was tldr.
Regardless I am sure they are a good system, i have ozito and am happy to stick with them for at home diy and have no complaints.
My initial comment was basically saying that the edger does the job required with no trouble at all so why would I need anything more than that, unlike your house versus tent scenario where the house obviously provides a lot more bells and whistles over a tent than just shelter.
Milwaukee and Makita somewhere probably above Ryobi 36v
As this Ozito edger is more than enough to easily do the job it is desinged and purchased for, then why would you need anything more than 18v?
Same reason that most people who have tried living in a house, prefer it over living in a tent…
Yeah, nah not even close.
will this help with edging?