Propane Weed Eater

I Don't know anything about them, but saw this one at Sears today. Seemed like the same quality as the other Craftsman trimmers.

http://www.sears.com/shc/s/p_10153_...Name=Handheld+Power+Tools&sName=Line+Trimmers

I think the one I saw was branded Echo, but I didn't look closely. It does resemble the picture from Jesemd.

Aside from a price tag of just over 200 bucks, it looks like a serious competitor to the 2cycle and 4cycle models. Kinda cool how a cylinder of propane will last several hours compared to a tank usually lasting perhaps an hour? Also burns A LOT cleaner than their fossil fuel (ironic name) counterparts.

To my knowledge, what I saw ONLY runs on propane.

They should make the tank refillable from a 20lb bbq tank that would make more sense. A buddy of mine has an adapter for filling the small torch tanks from a 20lb bbq tank, not legal but works like a charm and saves big money!!
And I also like 2 strokes, for small stuff like a trimmer most people would never change the oil or nevr refill the crank case and blow them up any way, so they might as well be 2 stroke and keep more of them out of the land fills.

The small tanks ARE refillable. I picked up a 6 pack of empty mini tanks at Wal-Mart. I got a Propane bottle refiller kit from Harbor Freight (see link below) to refill mine from a grill propane tank. I have mini tanks for propane lanterns, propane bug sprayer and an Echo Propane Weed Whacker from Sears. I've been refilling mine for years.

www.harborfreight.com/cpi/ctaf/displayitem.taf?Itemnumber=45989

patthesoundguy said:

They should make the tank refillable from a 20lb bbq tank that would make more sense. A buddy of mine has an adapter for filling the small torch tanks from a 20lb bbq tank, not legal but works like a charm and saves big money!!
And I also like 2 strokes, for small stuff like a trimmer most people would never change the oil or nevr refill the crank case and blow them up any way, so they might as well be 2 stroke and keep more of them out of the land fills.

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Buy a Stihl 4-Mix and you won't have to worry about oil changes or oil checking.

Everytime I hear PROPANE weed eater...I think of one of these gizmos...

Thats the BEST kind!..no ropes to pull,or lugging a heavy unbalanced whirring noisy POS around that gives your hands carpal tunnel!..works great on bees and hornets nests too!..

I wasted an afternoon trying to get a "free" Weedeater A friend gave up on running..looks brand new,and probably IS,becaue NO one was able to keep it running more than 3 minutes..its fuel lines simply shove into holes in the gas tank,they kept leaking and even popping out while it was running (nice thing to have ,with the tank mounted right above the MUFFLER!)..I ended up heating peices of steel tubing up and shoving then in the tank to make nipples to put the hoses onto,and even then I couldn't get the thing to run on anything but 3/4 "choked",despite the carb looking like new and the diaphrams are perfect..its by far the worst hunk of crap I've seen as far as a weedwhacker goes..too bad,its a straight shaft one too,capeable of using a blade..but the spool FLEW across my yard when I had it running at 4K briefly,so even if I'd gotten it to run good,I could see it was going to be a real PITA to use,so I tossed it in the scrap pile..

Propane would be big an improvement over gas/oil mix,its no more dangerous than having a gasoline tank with two hoses shoved into the bottom, that could pop out and turn YOU into a screaming ball of flaming napalm!..bet it would run good and no oil/gas stinky smell too..