This is the cheapest battery line trimmer and cheapest line trimmer in Australia. It also has a pole hedger included. 48% off RRP$115.
Large 4.0Ah battery with a short charging time of 80min using the 12V 3A charger. 30 minutes battery runtime.
Good for smaller lawns that are mowed regularly.
1 year warranty.
Don't compare a $59 trimmer to 36V or petrol.
Online exclusive. Same price at Home Hardware.
how so?
12v. I’ve got remote controlled cars and hitachi wands with more power…
Magic wand?
Totally agree.
Bought the Yardforce hedge trimmer as recommended on OZB 12 months ago and it died just after warranty expired.
The gear mechanism slips, so not repairable.
Buyer beware of this brand.
Bought a DeWalt in the end and it has been amazing.
Like they say, "Buy cheap / Buy twice"
Same experience with you, but mine died earlier, I can't be bothered with warranty and got a makita, huge difference in performance too
So youre telling me to buy 2? 😜
Two tools and battery for $60 is a pretty decent deal. Looking at the photos this seems to be a pretty versatile little kit too.
I hear comments about line trimmers being underpowered… but I can't imagine how bad they could be?
Will this work fine for maybe 20 meters of edging? Or is it actually underpowered to chop through buffalo runners
Interesting that it is a line trimmer too, not a crappy blade trimmer like the equivalent cheap ozitos.
I've got the ozito 18v line trimmer and it's quite annoying to use, especially because the thin line that you have to use with it is constantly breaking off, requiring constant bumping of the head to feed more, and if you dont bump it in time before it gets too short, the end falls into the spindle requiring you to stop, pull the spindle apart, re-feed it through the hole, and start again. it is truly infuriating, but still better than those crappy blades that constantly broke.
I had prior brand before ozito with electric and had same exact problem. I thought it was me who didn't know how to use it. Seems stupid have to stop and pull the spindle, refeed every 30 seconds or less.
my solution is to not wind the line quite as tightly as i ordinarily would, which does reduce the incidence of the problem but doesn't eliminate it entirely.
Thats just how bump feed systems work, you need to bump it about half way down, not let it run right to the end and then bump, of course its not going to work its only using centrifugal force to feed, if theres not enough force spinning around it isn't going to pull more line out when you bump. Solution is to not let it go so far down before bumping again.
If you find your line is breaking off or grinding down too fast you are either letting it hit coarse surfaces too much or you are using a thinner line than what you need, I would go up a level to a thicker line and avoid the crap out of Saxon brand line, which I believe is bunnings home brand, it snaps and grinds down way too easily.
I will try the next thicker line next time, unfortunately I've got a lot of the thin line to get through first!
(The Ozito manual also explicitly warns against using anything other than the thinnest line - 1.5mm I think it is)
Oh man tell me about it. I have 40m of 2mm thick line that my honda just blasts through. As soon as its all gone im going up some sizes.
Maybe try 2mm thick? No surprises the manual is warning of anything thicker, I would say the motor isn't really equipped for much more, but in saying that if you are having to change line or reset it every 5 minutes then screw it, may as well give it a try. It took me ages to gauge in the right line thickness and amount on the spindle etc.
Used to be in the same problem, but some smart youtube videos advised me to simply put your tiny line (or thick line, doesn't matter) to backet with water for overnight.
The problem is because this plastic is dried out and become fragile. Water just recovers elasticity. You'll forget to dealing with annoying constantly breaking lines.
This dude knows…
I came to say exactly this.
The “crappy” blade system can be upgraded for a couple of dollars. It certainly won’t be suitable for a serious outdoorsman, but for anyone who scored it with charger and battery a few years back https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/575305 - and for older females in particular - the Ozito 18v grass trimmer is about the lightest unit available and is infinitely better when used with a 2 - 2.5ah battery to reduce the force which spins the plastic tabs off, or better yet with simple upgrade to convert it to line;
https://web.archive.org/web/20240910083607/https://www.rands…
I never had a problem with the tabs spinning off, they always just snapped.
That looks like an interesting solution but I suspect I'd be stopping to change the line just as often.
I too got a cheap one of them a while ago and sold it on Facebook for more than I paid for it…
I've been using the diy hack and it certainly lasts better than the blades. I just make up a dozen or so at a time and replace as needed. It's a little fiddly but much less so than finding the blades that went flying every 30 seconds.
Is it possible to take this on a flight
Username checks out 😂
Sorry don't know the answer to your question. Maybe can be checked-in as oversize item?
You mean the hedge trimmer which has sharp blades? ;)
Check in
You probably have to bring the battery as carry on and check the rest. Not worth the trouble just buy two at this price one for here and one for wherever you are flying to
One for TSA
Great price, just need to think about the expandability. At $60 for everything its hard to go wrong, that brand just doesn't have many skins to work with so keep that in mind. Ozito garden stuff isn't the best(although I personally don't mind that cheap bladed trimmer, wears down quick but aside from that eh). But Ozito has a skin for pretty much every job you could think of so the expandability is much better.
Great price but can't commit to another battery ecosystem especially just for those tools. Shame the batteries aren't compatible with other common brands.
2 stroke is what we all want.
Sounds dirty
I can't help but think you'll get what you pay for.
The ozito 36v is probably the cheapest electric whipper snipper worth anyone's time.
Ozito PCX version. The non PCX version look pretty much the same as Kogan Certa.
Around the suburbs you still hear overpowered / over revving two stroke whippa snippers doing line work.
FULL POWER, HOLD THAT TRIGGER.
GRASS CAN NOT TOUCH THE CONCRETE!
Love my 2 stroke trimmer. Vroom vroooom vroooooooooooooom
Bunnings Ozitor price matching? No?
12v is landfill unless u using it remove weeds growing between brick tiles
Landfill