best weed trimmer head or line for heavy stuff

[Wilhelm]

Shoot, I’d have normally used 1/2 of the 0.095 stuff, after fully loading it, going around the entire property.

Worth it ?
It chunked up a bit of ASSh-phault going along my Belgian blocks ………. gotta be a little more careful than agressive, like I had to be with the 0.095 stuff

Gotta be careful & precautions shooting .50cal if You are used to .22!

Now try a chain flail Brogio head!

 

[FergusonTO35]

Now that I have the Stihl FS-91 with a blade I can go back to using a line head on my trusty Shindaiwa T242. The 242 isn't really that good with a blade anyway, too many RPMs and not enough torque. I can't find my line head for it so ordered a Speedfeed 500 (part 78890-21050) from my local Echo dealer. From what I can tell, this is the biggest head that Echo currently makes, holds like 50 feet of line or something crazy like that.

 

[FergusonTO35]

The Speedfeed 500 came in today so I picked it up. It installed quite easily on the 242. This thing is a chunk, exactly what I was looking for. The 242 spins it just fine, should be able to test drive it this weekend.

 

[PissRev]

The Speedfeed 500 came in today so I picked it up. It installed quite easily on the 242. This thing is a chunk, exactly what I was looking for. The 242 spins it just fine, should be able to test drive it this weekend.

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Very nice!

 

[bucketofguts]

That is what I run on my FS90R for years,Mine is a 400 I think.

 

[FergusonTO35]

I have a smaller one on my little GT-200 and it works perfectly.

 

[FergusonTO35]

I tried out the Speedfeed 500 on the Shindaiwa T242 today. It works great and is the right size and weight for this machine. My only gripe is that it seems to advance the line on its own, I used it for an hour and never tapped the head. The line was the same length the entire time. It doesn't seem to do it excessively though. It has some really heavy line from the factory, its probably .130. I find alot of heads will self feed with heavy line. I'll probably refill it with .095 or .105.

 

[Al Smith]

I think I have four weed wackers that run .Most if not all of them run blade heads .I gave up on string heads a long time ago .I found generic nylon blades in 50 set amounts for a fraction of the cost of OEM blades .Might use three sets in an entire season .

 

[dangerousatom]

I use the Oregon Gatorine Supertwist in .115 for the walk behind Husqvarna trimmer I picked up off the curb last year.......new carb n done. Seems to do the job for grass and weeds around the hunting cabin.

For anything bigger I have a Ryobi 2stroke multi shaft, thats like a 28-35cc I pulled out of the trash and tossed a new $15 carb on . Bought 2 of those 80-tooth carbide blades with all the holes punched in them for string trimmers. Then stacked up some washers and gutted the OE trimmer head for the female threaded bits. Once I figured out the right stacking order it was off to the races. When running it for the first time in a while it is always a little sketchy feeling for the first 30seconds. ( I always imagine the blade flying off and taking me out below the knees ) but I have never had it loosen in 4-5 hours of picker bush/brush cutting. Takes a sec to spin up the RPMs but once it singing she lazers through just about anything broom handle diameter or smaller.