BLACK+DECKER Electric Strimmer with Automatic Single Line Feed, 55W, 240V, Cutting Width 30cm,BESTA530-GB

Perfect for cutting thick weeds/thistles/nettles/ivy/grass plus lots more. Long cable (Over 16 feet / 5 metres) Great weight, brilliant reach with the extending arm. Very good build quality from Black and Decker. SAFETY leaflet inside the box, READ IT and UNDERSTAND it before you use this strimmer. Really good power, light to use but do take breaks when you start off if you a new to this. Very easy to manoeuvre. Real easy to assemble. I really enjoyed using it. The strimmer line included was really good. This strimmer was great for me. Brilliant for what I needed to do. Grass strimming and numerous weed strimming as mentioned above. Some light tree branches were also no problem for it. It is not a silent motor so I needed to be aware of the time when I used it. Although it is much quieter that those revving petrol ones. I would recommend this strimmer.

Prompt delivery. As usual though with every strimmer I've ever had the auto spool feed for the cutting line simply does not work. Within less than a minute I had a line that was over 18" long. This happened every time the line was reset and seems to be an issue common to almost every make of strimmer, and I've had many of them. Happily though once I had re-engineered the spool feed system to manual the strimmer works very well and doesn't go through a spool of line in less than five minutes.

I have used countless strimmers over the years and this is by far the best to date. It is well made and very easy to use. Not too heavy and it can tackle even the longest grass and the toughest weeds ! It arrives with just the handle and guard to fix which takes just a few minutes to sort out. This strimmer is also great at edging lawns. The strimmer line is a breeze to fix on the strimmer, just remove the empty spool and the new strimmer line takes literally seconds to fix into place. I use this strimmer to maintain a small field and it manages the job perfectly. Just take my advice and always wear gloves if you have a lot of strimming to do, as it avoids those nasty blisters on your hands ! Excellent value for a great strimmer.

I'm really pleased with this strimmer. It is lightweight but powerful and has been excellent at keeping the grass at the edge of my large garden under control. Would recommend.

I've had a few strimmers and they have all driven me mad with snapping and or tangling cords. I bought this one and attacked my very overgrown front lawn. Did the whole lawn, then the very large back lawn ( edging in this case) and loads of quite large weeds, and it has just got on with it. No snapping or tangling, no stopping to sort out some issue. My first electric drill was Black and Decker, when I was (strangely perhaps) about 14, in the 70's. I used it well into adulthood. A good make. The longer I used it (the strimmer) the more I realised it was going to pack up on me!

Tackled my lawn for the first time this year, also my first use of the new B&D strimmer. I have been mowing the same lawns for more than five decades, giving my age away here. I reckon that this is at least the fifth strimmer that I have used over this time, so I can speak with some degree of experience. The first thing that I noticed was the weight of this machine, this was the heaviest that I have used. I soon noticed the second negative point. The cable fitted was shorter by quite a few meters than any of the others used previously, quite disappointing as for the first time I was obliged to use an extension cable. B&D are scrimping here. I then used it for edging the lawn as suggested. This was another minus for me, I found it extremely difficult to use for this purpose. In my humble opinion it could be regarded as a gimmick and not practical due in part to its weight and awkwardness in handling. On a more positive note, it was more powerful than any of my previous machines and did the task required as a strimmer successfully. In summing up, I would recommend this machine to a much younger and stronger person than myself. Not for an old timer like me!

Trusted brand for a reason, this strimmer is great. Why did you choose this product over others?: Great experience using other black and decka stuff previously. Value for money: was on sale for £45 when i got it. Great price considering is a solid product Power: more than ample Effectiveness: not a flimsy strimmer. Manages overgrown grass easily. Ease of assembly: Instructions are clear

This B&D strimmer was 1 of 2 purchased, it's cousin was a larger and more powerful but not nearly so good. I have never rated B&D for anything and both were purchased in desperation, up to that point I knew little of strimmers. It was a very large gardening area and seriously overgrown, while its larger cousin was a real pain to use with continues breakages and a line head cap that proved so difficult to remove when changing the line, the B&D A530, what a goer, just motored on, it didn't handle everything under it but strimmed a lot more then it should, I was so impressed, amazed in fact. The replacement line was an Amazon purchase and sold by EYERAYO, 2mm x 50m red line cord. I purchased 150m of it and went through 110mbut it was a huge area even for 2 strimmers. Due to my inexperience I used the wrong type of strimming head, reading the product details I thought when it stated " 30cm cutting swath " I thought this meant, length of line that will do the strimming, wrong!, this measurement simply means width of the line cover shield, the actual length of line involved was about 100mm only. The best analogy I can come up with for the area involved, it was like cleaning latrines with a tooth brush but it did it so well, the perseverance was worth it. It is not a professional strimmer, it's for domestic use. I still don't rate B&D but this strimmer went way beyond its call of duty. Its larger cousin had to be returned, it became impossible to use, Amazon refunded.