Flymo Ultratrim 260 Review: A versatile cordless trimmer

Verdict

If you need one thing to trim and edge your garden, the Flymo Ultratrim 260 cordless trimmer is flexible sufficient to handle each effectively, because of a intelligent little bit of design. It may be a bit tough to place collectively, however as soon as it’s assembled this trimmer does a superb job of beheading errant grass stems, and leaves a neat edge in its wake.

Introduction

The Flymo Ultratrim 260 is a barely costlier trimmer than many, designed as a standalone instrument fairly than one thing to be shoved in a package with a mower, and it exhibits.

There’s been a little bit of thought put into its design, with an consciousness of how gardeners truly use their instruments. It flips over to edge your garden, and may reduce by way of lengthy grass stems, however isn’t appropriate for heavier work.

Design and options

• Kick-switch for flipping the pinnacle over
• Wheel for edging work
• Metallic guard

The Flymo Ultratrim 260 arrives in bits. That is nothing uncommon, as many backyard trimmers do the identical factor to avoid wasting area when transported, however this mannequin is among the few that I’ve needed to resort to truly studying the guide to assemble. The principle wrongdoer is the wheel, which is helpful once you’re edging, however isn’t intuitive to connect. Finally, I obtained all of it slotted collectively, and located a trimmer that sits properly within the palms and is adjustable sufficient for all types of grip preferences.

The telescopic tube will be adjusted so that you’re swinging the pinnacle at a snug distance, whereas the deal with close to the highest of the instrument can pivot forwards and backwards so your guiding hand isn’t twisted into a wierd place whereas utilizing it. That is vastly higher to fashions with mounted handles, because it reduces fatigue whereas utilizing it. Quick trimmers like this one are usually fairly mild instruments, however your arm remains to be going to get drained when you’re utilizing it for greater than only a light trim of already brief grass.

There’s extra considerate design additional down the shaft, as the pinnacle rotation mechanism is triggered by a foot swap, and with the pinnacle within the upright place it turns into an efficient edging instrument.

There’s one other swap too, which permits the deal with to rotate by way of 60 levels so you’ll be able to flatten the trimmer to get it below issues like benches and trampolines extra simply, and a helpful energy gauge on the shaft itself so that you don’t must maintain wanting on the battery, or simply guess.

Efficiency

• Good chopping in each configurations
• Huge chopping width
• Solely a single line

The Flymo Ultratrim 260 is a chunky trimmer, and a kilo heavier than others in the identical sector, so that you may anticipate some heavyweight efficiency. It’s completely positive chopping grass, and can gamely have a go at thicker weeds, however with a 1.6mm single line it’s not appropriate for slashing by way of thick nettles or thistles. There’s an auto-feed system at work that delivers extra line because it breaks, which is nice for uninterrupted trimming.

The chopping head itself is kind of broad, with a 26cm chopping width, which suggests you’ll must take barely fewer swings at an space earlier than all of the grass is felled. There’s a metallic guard to maintain the road away from partitions, pots and the form of delicate stems you don’t need to reduce by way of, after which there’s that wheel.

It’s a intelligent factor to see on a trimmer, which means that when you retract the guard and swing the pinnacle into the edging place, it should roll alongside the bottom maintaining the road a set distance above the garden, making your edge reduce extra constant and eradicating the danger of chopping lumps of earth or flicking gravel or bark round (relying on what your flower beds are coated in) by going too low.

Battery life is respectable, and I by no means noticed one run out whereas trimming and edging in my suburban backyard, however battery life will depend upon the quantity of labor you’re doing and the way robust it’s. The 18V energy packs should not solely compact however a part of the Energy For All system that may be interchanged with different suitable instruments, so when you already personal Energy 4 All batteries you’ll be able to decide up this trimmer for a less expensive value by shopping for it with out the charger and cells.

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