Orbitrim No String Head Gas Trimmer

This product is great! It probably doesn't deserve 5 stars but I saw so many bad reviews that it didn't deserve that I gave it an extra star. If your weeds are over a foot tall it isn't great. But if you're a homeowner that cares about his yard like me and you are going to use it to clean up around the sidewalk and the kids swing set it is flat out AMAZING!! I will never ever go back to the string. In fact after my first use I ordered two more so that I would have spares. I did have to drill out the receiver end to fit it to my Husqvarna but I was glad I did: It did not fall out of balance or strip my gears. I only ran at about 1/2 throttle though. I very highly recommend this product!!!!Update; after two uses I decided to get a little crazy and used a flat file to put a sharper edge on the blades. It made a big difference, but I'm not sure its a great idea, If I continue to hand-sharpen it i'm sure that sooner or later it will get out of balance which will lead to trouble. Still, this little guy seems like a gimmicky product but it is NOT.

I got this as a Father's Day present and will cherish it accordingly, but it is a disappointing device in application. I use a variety of trim line devices in lawn maintenance, including a brush mower and two weedeaters. One of the latter has an edger attached all the time for convenience.This device seemed compelling to do all the tasks of my trim line devices, but sadly it excels at none of its functions.As a weed trimmer, it cannot get close to walls due to its outer metal ring. It also makes the trimmer itself front-heavy and therefore challenging for cutting wider swaths of grass evenly.As a hedge trimmer, it is impossible to cut across the top of hedges for obvious reasons. If you need a standard trimmer for the tops of hedges, this device won't save you any time.And finally, it fails its most utterly at edging. In my area, sidewalks are poured nearly at ground height so an edger has to have a vertical blade approach to do the job. The steel ring prevents such use completely. If you watch the videos for this device, you'll note they "edged" near concrete walkways several inches in height over the grass.My final complaint regards the installation. The directions nobly attempt to describe every trimmer manufacturer combination on the market (and adequate bolts and washers are provided) but most require a considerable amount of disassembly of the trimmer head first. If this unit becomes a permanent fixture of your trimmer, that may be acceptable....but it won't be on for long, I promise.

This could be a good product, unfortunately it absolutely does NOT work with electric trimmers. The advertisement says works with almost all gas trimmers, does not mention electric either way, so we took a chance and ordered it anyway.I am not complaining because I took on my own risk so I will keep the Orbitrim but wanted to let anyone else who has an electric trimmer that it might not work for you either.What you need to check is whether your trimmer has a hole in the bottom of the rotating section that will accept a bolt. You will know this by verifying that your trimmer's "string" section can be removed via removal of 1 bolt.It would have been nice for Orbitrin to have someone communicated with requirement then I would not have had to order the item "sight unseen" and found it will not work for my trimmer.But now that I ordered this online, found that Walmart carries this item and I could have viewed it their, thus saving me the trouble of ordering it.Lesson learned.

It has some good points and bad points, to mow down tall grass and weeds you have to place it over the top and move downward. If you try to move sideways it just knocks the grass and weeds down, rather than cutting them. But I purchased it so I could get close to my planted bushes and flowers and skirting on my Mobile home, so it works as advertised there.

I live on a 2 1/2 acre peace of property. So to run out of string when you are on the far side of my land is a royal pain in the but.The install: The most difficult part of the installation was removing the manufactures string dispenser. I did rush the install the Orbitrim and did not have it centered properly. This caused some vibration when i started to use it. I shut it down, realigned it and she ran smooth as could be.As far as performance, this Orbitrim leveled some of the thickest South Florida weeds with ease. It does take a little getting used to at first, but by the end of the day I was trimming my hedges and had my neighbor dying to get his hands on it for a try. One of the best aftermarket trimmer attachments i have ever used by far!!!

THIS IS AVERY DANGEROUS PRODUCT! THE SPINNING HEAD FLIES OFF!I would not recommend this product to anybody! The concept is good, but the engineering is very poor.I installed it properly on my Stihl gas powered weed-eater as per the instruction video ( would not work on my Ryobi gas powered weed-eater due to the incompatibility of the bolts and shaft size). After using a few minutes the cutting head spun off and went flying across the yard! VERY DANGEROUS!!! I'm very lucky that my dogs or Wife were not in the area as it would have caused great bodily harm. And the spinning head danced out of control over a very large area. There would not have been any way to get out of it's path because it just spun where it wanted and bounced off everything it hit.After rewatching the installation video and knowing it was properly installed, I thought a lock washer and Loc-Tight might solve the problem. I decided it was not worth the risk of getting hurt, injuring someone in the vicinity, or causing damage. I am returning this product to Amazon, it is unfortunate because I was excited when I saw it advertised. They were very explicit about the danger of the cutting heads when installing the cutter, BUT NO MENTION OF THE POSSIBLY OF THE CUTTING HEAD FLYING OFF AND CAUSING GREAT BODILY HARM!