DEWALT String Trimmer and Blower Combo Kit

Leaf blower and weed eater are great Dewalt products. The only con i have is on the weed eater. Compared to a gas version, the radius of the cutting are is much smaller, I assume it has to do with battery efficiency. Edging prior to mowing may need a second pass compared to my gas edger.

Electrician for 25 years now and owner of dozens of DeWalt battery and corded tools. This string trimmer is by far the weakest of any of them. Now I wasn’t expecting it to be a tree chopper, but this thing is so weak that dead grass gives it a fight. Forget anything remotely stronger than grass…like tough weeds, forget it. It needs to be run wide open or it just won’t cut, takes forever doing so, and drains the battery in short order.
Note the size of the cutting head. It’s so tall that getting under things is not gonna happen, and that also makes it bump the string feeder and causes the string line (the string that is included is garbage) to feed excessively.
I know what you’re thinking; I’m asking too much of it, trying to over work it. No, not at all. I’ve actually been very un-demanding of the tool.
I like DeWalt tools most of them I’ve had have been rock tough, but this thing is a toy. An expensive toy. I really don’t know who could use this, I keep thinking someone with real light duty needs, but it just doesn’t go to work even on the most light weight tasks. Really disappointed in this, pretty much useless and has me reconsidering automatically buying DeWalt as my go-to tools. And obviously, I still need a string trimmer that cuts.
I bought it in a package deal that includes the leaf blower. Now that works very well and moves big piles of leaves, and living in the mountains we have lots of leaves. Real happy with that item, but that’s not why I bought the package. The string trimmer is a bad joke. I dunno, maybe you could wrap the window shade string around it and use it to move the shades up and down.

Works great. get extra batteries if you do a lot. They don’t last as long as I expected.

They arrived quickly and undamaged. I used the the trimmer first and it works great. I have an old electric trimmer and it was so nice to not have to deal with extension cords. I have a lot of over growth in my yard and it had no problem cutting it down. It says in the instruction not to use as an edger but I only used it that way for a short period of time along my driveway, it did an ok job with that. Out of the box, the poles are attached with a cable tie to hold the two poles together. It was a bit difficult to put the poles together but once they are tighten down they stayed together. I also left the cable tie on incase I decide to store it folded up. For now I will just hang it as it is. The tap and go line feed is great, but then I’ve only used it twice.

The blower worked better than I expected. I read some where, while researching blowers, to look for no less than 400 CFM (blowing pressure) because then it won’t push the wet stuff well at all. That’s why I didn’t get the cheaper $20.00 to $60.00 blowers. I haven’t used it on anything wet yet, even though it has rained a lot this year in Michigan. Trees just started dropping leaves, so we will see how it goes when they are all over the yard. I also want to try it on snow this year as well. The intake of air is in the back, which I wanted, because of a comment from a purchaser, on one of the cheaper blowers, stated that theirs was on the left side of the motor and it kept sucking their shirt into it while in use. So I’m glad the in take of air is in the back.

When looking at cordless tools, look at the battery that comes with it. Most are are 20V, but look for the ampage (length of time it runs), mine came with a 4amp battery, which I made sure it had a full charge before using. I used it on the trimmer and the blower the same day. It still had a good charge after 30 minutes. So I would look for at least a 4amp battery. I did buy a couple of extra DEWALT 6amp batteries, incase I want to go longer. But then I also have the DEWALT cordless pole saw (haven’t used it yet), hand drill, driver and a jig saw, so wanted extra batteries. Hope this helps.