I used to fool around with old dudes biatchin about their pushmower's cut and all. Turns out that the problem was they were running the mower @
2000 rpm or so.....
They refused to run at the advised rpms
For all of you that read this now. There is no way your running these things wide open (off the rev limiter) all the time when cutting weekly residential yards. No way. I am not saying to run it like a sissy but no way wide open all the time. Anything around half throttle or so is fine but good luck doing it on a stihl 4 mix. I used them today both fs130r and fs250r (2 stroke) and they are less then 1 year old and get used 2-3 times a week so it aint like there wooped or anything. I mean i understand if you go too slow that you can tear the grass no crap but, telling me you hold them wfo is just stupid. When we do this section of high grass near a field yeah your wfo for a while no doubt but when your just doing trimming on a residential yard weekly and you have mulch near by, stones, windows, cars around etc it is just totally stupid to run one wide open. Uses excess fuel, harder on motor, easy to shoot a rock to a window, would vibrate your hands numb, real sensitive to bumping the head for more string when probably not needed.
UPDATE: Also just saw that the new fs94r 2 stroke coming out soon has a new throttle/handle and a lever (like a wheel) on the new handle to hold the rpm at multiple throttle positions and you can stilll give it more throttle when needed and it comes back to the setting that you set on the (lever wheel) so maybe i am not the only one in the world that doesn't run wfo throttle 24/7 as some claim. Check it out stihl fs94r 2 stroke trimmer coming out soon. (also a fs240) Maybe this is the fix or a nicer way to use it for smoother throttle application. bottom line, the ones made now are just way too twitchy whether its a lean mixture which makes stuff snappy(strict epa regulations) , too light a flywheel, carb/throttle cam design or what it is. I know i am not the only one to complain about this as I have read about it on internet so I know i am not the only one. They are nice trimmers but its a pain in the *** to use these machines. Built well I will say.
btw old men running those mowers at stupid low rpm, yeah i have seen that before but your talking about a mower at max say 3,300rpm on a 21" mower compared to a trimmer running 10,000rpm. I get what your saying though.
