My first experience with this thing was awful, exactly as described by an earlier reviewer ("natethepa"). I didn't return it immediately because I really liked two things about it:
1. It's featherweight, far lighter than anything I tried at a big store - and I'm comparing with cordless trimmers only. The wheels make edging even easier.
2. The removable battery is tiny, weighs probably less than a pound, takes barely an hour to recharge (1.5 hours for the initial charge), and lasts at least half an hour, maybe more. Many other batteries require an overnight charge, but with this one you can come home from work, plug it in, eat dinner - and you're ready to go.
So I read the instructions again and discovered that the factory doesn't pull the string out of the spool as far as it should be pulled (WHY?????) and that the user must do it before starting. So I did, and the second time around, it didn't snap once, whether I trimmed or edged.
Obviously, this is not a heavy-duty machine, no brush-clearing with it, but it does a passable job for our suburban purposes. Also,
3. you need to press two buttons to start it but only one needs to be held after that, which is a lot better than my other cordless trimmer where three buttons have to be held at all times.
One star off for the terrible instructions written for litigation purposes only (three pages about not taking showers while trimming), while the all-important information about pulling the string out appears at the bottom of page 5.Get more detail about Sun Joe TRJ600C Trimmer Joe 20-Volt Lithium Ion Cordless String Trimmer/Edger with Quick Charger.
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