Greenworks 40V 13 in Cordless String Trimmer, 2.0 Ah Battery and Charger

Love this trimmer. I didn't think a battery one would ever be this good. This thing is a champ for mowing down weeds and trimming the yard and edging sidewalks. Its something you will love doing yard work and looking for more stuff to mow down. Well worth the money. Battery last long time and quality seems great so far after a couple weeks and easy to use that you could even let your teenagers use.

I will start by saying that I am long-time and mostly happy Greenworks customer. I have had 2 mowers, a blower, polesaw, and a hedge trimmer and they've all worked well. My experience with this trimmer could not be farther from satisfied. This thing is absolute junk and they should stop selling it. Several things: the edging wheel is utterly useless, threw that away immediately. The provided trimmer line breaks at a rate I didn't think was possible. Watch out, if you hit anything other than 7 blades of grass your line will be down to 3" in a heartbeat. Which is a problem because the auto-feed just doesn't work...at all. After a few minutes of futzing and manually feeding the line I gave up. Took the battery out and heaved the thing into the trash pile. It'll go on FB marketplace for $10. This has greatly soured me on the entire brand, not sure I'll continue on.

Works well but sometimes the handle rotates on its own and you have to readjust it during use, kinds of annoying but it cuts well and charges fast

Very easy to handle light weight!

I don't often write reviews, but figured this might help someone on the fence about this tool: I've owned the tool about a week, so still can't speak to longevity of the product, but so far, I LOVE it. I'm guessing that those that hate it might be used to using heavier duty, gas powered, professional units. #1 I was in the market for a new trimmer/edger, and since I already have the chainsaw and leaf blower, and a couple big batteries for the greenworks, thought I'd give this a try. #2 I'm a 54 year old woman, 5'3" tall and about 128 pounds, who has been using a ryobi string trimmer for the past 3 years. This greenworks unit is incredible by comparison. I'm able to shorten the unit to string trim or edge comfortably, without undue strain on my arms and shoulders (the ryobi was too long, and I had to darn near contort myself to keep it up off the ground when I used it, the balance being off for someone of my stature). #3 I used the unit to trim and edge my professional cut flower field, consisting of (8) 40- foot, in-ground beds, plus (4) 50-foot exterior timber frame beds. It took one 4ah battery, plus a little of the 2ah battery that came with the unit. Now that I'm comfortable using it, I anticipate co.pleting the entire field with just the one battery. #4 I followed the directions for auto releasing the string, and experienced *no issues* at all. Each time you use the auto release function, as others have stated, it only releases about 1/4" of line, and it released flawlessly each and every time. Read and follow directions. #5 By the end of last year's flower season I was half dead from trying to prevent the grass paths from growing into the beds. I shed tears of gratitude last week using this to edge and lightly trench the beds, thinking of the many, many hours of hands and knees work I might now be liberated from doing. #6 Unit did a fair job of cutting tough pasture grasses so that I could move my chicken coops and electric net to fresh ground. For the price point and utility, I believe it to be a great purchase.

Good for the price but the continuous line feature only worked first day out then wouldn't work at all.

Do not buy this! Defective design I have a greenworks electric 40v mower that I use at our lake property and it works great. So i thought I would order this matching 40v weedeater and go all electric. Well, first use and I am returning. The weedeater has a fatal flaw and should be recalled. Instead of the bump advance head that every other weedeater uses, they use an auto advance string. Problem is the string advance is very slow. Using it will wear the string down much faster than it advances. So the result is you are cutting with only 3 or 4inches of string out. It makes the weedeater unusable. The only solution is to run the weedeater in the air for a minute to let the string advance after every minute or two of use. Of course that wastes time and shortens battery life. If this had a bump head, it would be a really nice option but as it stands... it is horrible. DO NOT BUY! Trust me on this, if you buy this, you will be sending back like I am. Shame on Greenworks for releasing a clearly flawed product. Their mower works so nice... why make such a terrible weedeater?

I’ve got the Greenworks mower and it’s great; I have the blower and it works well (although I rarely use it because I can’t be arsed); and I have this terrible thing. If it had been the first Greenworks product I bought, I doubt there would have been a second one. So, here’s the two things I hate about this: first, the head keeps rotating while you’re using it, despite tightening every thing I can find. This means you end up twisting it into a weird position until you stop and correct it, which never lasts long. Also, the trimmer line isn’t bump feed and it’s a PITA opening the housing to pull more line out all the time. That’s probably a complaint for any trimmer without a bump feed but the clips to remove this are really tough to clamp on. Hopefully Greenworks addresses these issues with future models; the rest of their stuff works really well.