Toro 7-Inch 12-Volt Cordless Trimmer #51460

List Price: $64.99

Features:

• A 7-inch cordless electric string trimmer ideal for trimming grasses and weeds
• 12-volt
• No tools necessary for assembly or spool replacement
• Bump-head line release
• 2-year limited warranty

Accessories:
Toro Electric Trimmer Replacement Spool with .065-Inch-by-10-Foot Line #88185	Toro 1800 18-Inch 12 Amp Electric Curve Snow Thrower #38025

Customer Reviews:

Buy a goat [Posted on 2005-05-12]
I bought this unit in the thought of being more environmentally friendly after my last gas powered Ryobi engine seazed up.

Be careful not to let the line touch pavement or any hard surface. The line will break and recoil back onto the spool. I spent more time readjusting the spool of line than trimming. It is too short if you are 6 feet tall, so be prepared to walk around your yard in an uncomfortable hunched over fashion. Also, do not let the areas you need edged to grow more than say 3 inches. It will take too much battery power to cut this length of grass and obviously longer grass.

On the bright side, when you lawn is half edged, you need to recharge the battery, giving you a nice break time to enjoy an ice cold refreshing adult beverage; which is nice. I gave it a 1 star for the refreshing break time it allows you, even though your chores are still not complete.

The line will sometimes spew out tangling around the head. The line cutter is all but worthess, probably more suited to cutting butter. Finally after one of the line spewages, it wrapped itself around the head jamming it tight. Yep, broke the gears. Happily, this plastic Toro is now on it's way to the landfill. Environmentally sound? Nope. I'll stay with a gas trimmer next time. Unless your urban area allows farm animals, buy a gas trimmer, they are lighter.

Cordless Electric Trimmer [Posted on 2005-07-24]
This is not like electric trimmers from just a few years ago.
This trimmer actually works, and works well.
No, it won't cut down brush and big weeds but it will trim the grass around your house. The battery is a bit on the heavy side but this difficulty is offset by the fact that it also lasts a long time. It trims our yard without any sign of slowing down.
Nice unit.

Garbage [Posted on 2005-07-31]
I eventually smashed this trimmer in frustration, after the 10th time in one session that I had to mess around with the string cassette.

The string cassette in this trimmer seems to have been intentionally designed to be as useless as possible. Impossible to load, no positive holding mechanism for the string, so it invariably spits out the last foot or so of string, and if you let it get a little too short, the string retreats into the housing.

Based on my experience with this item, I will NEVER buy another Toro trimmer.

Toro 7 inch Trimmer [Posted on 2005-08-04]
The product arrived as promised. It was not difficult to asemble although the advertising did not tell me I would have to do that. The trimmer works well.
It has two limitations. One is that it is heavier than I thought it would be. Second it does not run for the 45 minutes promised. For the first 30 minutes it is strong, after that it begins to lag.

worked pretty well the first year [Posted on 2006-05-03]
My wife bought this trimmer. I had previously used a good old fashioned scissors type trimmer. It worked reasonably well, although we did have some trouble with the spool head. After I unwound the cord and then rewound it, it worked fairly well. This year, after charging 24 hours, it runs about half speed for about 10 minutes. A replacement battery is only $45.00. That leaves about $15.00 for the rest of the machine. I guess that's about right.

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