Buying Trimmer Help!

[primerbulb120]

Glad to hear about your new purchase! :thumbsup:

 

[jekjr]

Got it. :smile:

How old are these Echos? All the older ones were great. Then they got the non-adjustable EPA carbs, and everything went downhill from there. I can't vouch for the newer commercial models, but the newer residential models (SRM-225 is one of these) are underpowered and cheaply built.

We run the PAS 225's and PAS 266's two of each and a regular shaft 266. (Forget the letters).

We ran a 280 for a while but never had success with it. INfact out dealer finally gave us another one for it and that one would not run either. The 266's and 225's have done us a great job. Personally I had rather run a 266 because it has more power but unless you are doing real heavy cutting the 225's do fine.

The oldest one we have now is a PAS 225 and it was bought in 2014. All of them were bought in 2014 and the newest was bought in 2016.