Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

Love this thing. After getting the powerful gas trimmer and spending a few weekends dragging it all over the property, decided that there really SHOULD be something that was a little less bulky, cumbersome - and tiring. Granted the gas trimmers aren't like carrying a MOWER around, but they're not light when you go carting 'em around a couple acres. THIS Worx unit IS light - even after caring it around a couple acres. No issue with choking, starting, running out of gas, MIXING gas, spark plugs, tuneups, etc. An electric battery starts the trimmer when you pull it. Period. No hassle. On the ONE hand, they are NOT as strong (at least this model isn't) as a 25cc gas trimmer, but 95% of the time I really don't care about all that power. And, as I saw someone else point out, having gravel and sticks hitting your shins at 140 mph is no picnic. STILL have dings on my legs from a couple months ago. So it may even be regarded as a PLUS - cuts grass AND saves your legs! It takes a bit of getting used to as far as the line advance but seems to have worked well so far. I have to manually advance it every once in a while, but have yet to need to reload the spool - after weedeating the yard (~2 acres) three times plus some touchup weeding, I'm still on the first spool. Since you can manually reload with your own line, it really should be no issue anyway. The toughest thing to get used to is NOT banging it on the ground to advance. The variability of the head pitch is great - being taller some angles work a LOT easier for me than they do for my significantly shorter fiancee - we're about a foot different in height. And a quick twist is all that's required to get the angle right for both of us. The edging setup works great too - and also did away with the regular need for the gas driven edger. Now, If you want to dig a nice line with your edger, you WILL still need your gas version but for weekly tidying up - this is perfectly adequate! The only thing I wish it had was what apparently the 2.0 model had and that was a way to put the wheels down to use it as sort of a mini-lawn mower thing - keeping the height consistent in tough to reach areas - like underneath decks or porches that aren't completely accessible while standing. DEFINITELY a great purchase for me.