It's pretty amazing all of the lawn equipment people either throw away or give away for free when a lot of the time it's a simple fix or there might not even be anything wrong with it at all like the Echo trimmer you pulled out of the scrap bin, wasn't anything wrong with it and it runs great. Echo is a good brand and that trimmer is in excellent shape. I get lots of lawn equipment given to me that people just want to get rid of like in the spring someone gave me a Stihl FS66 trimmer/brushcutter which has the bicycle bar handle setup, it wasn't getting spark which was an easy fix as it just had a loose connection and it runs great.
Just the inter day I found a 2014 toro recycler personal pace self propelled lawn mower with out the bag, I rolled it home and put a new plug in and clean the carb and sold it for $200!!! Just goes to show what rich people throw away!!
The thing that destroys most 2-cycle engines is improper fuel-oil mix ratio. The premix is great, and the fuel doesn't seem to evaporate from the mixture and leave just oil in the carb as bad as the stuff you mix yourself. Most people including myself just don't like the aggravation of messing with them. That's why you find them so easily lol
I snagged two older Craftsman and one Homelite trimmers and a John Deere leaf blower for $40. One craftsman needs a trigger, the other vibrates. The homelite needed a head and muffler, the JD leaf blower needed a carb rebuild. Sold the leaf blower with backpack for $200. Keeping the trimmers, each with different heads for different purposes.
You should do more videos like this. People throw away so much great stuff its actually amazing. I've found a Stihl FS-40C Trimmer, a Homelite Gas Blower, a Black and Decker mower, a Troy-Bilt backpack blower and much more. They all work fine too. I also own an ECHO SRM225 trimmer. That thing has never let me down
The Weed Wacker one I would've not bothered because those are made to be disposable. They are sub-$50 trimmers new. I haven't had any luck with those, ever.
Congratulations on your first failure. I despise those small Walbro-type carbs. Once they stuff up they are nearly impossible to clean. Good job on the Echo though. I have a minor request: Try to minimize swinging your camera around when you aren't using a tripod. It gives us older folks a headache, lol. Thanks.
Believe it or not, I have that same weed eater brand weed eater and I just fired it up last week for its 20th mowing season, it’s like the weed eater that won’t die only thing I’ve done to it it put new fuel lines in it
I chuckled when you thought something might be wrong with the Echo trimmer head. Nope, nothing missing; you just push in pre-cut lengths of line. When they break or get too short, you use a needle nose to pull them through from the middle. Of course you have to make certain to push the cut line far enough to begin with.
It's pretty amazing all of the lawn equipment people either throw away or give away for free when a lot of the time it's a simple fix or there might not even be anything wrong with it at all like the Echo trimmer you pulled out of the scrap bin, wasn't anything wrong with it and it runs great. Echo is a good brand and that trimmer is in excellent shape. I get lots of lawn equipment given to me that people just want to get rid of like in the spring someone gave me a Stihl FS66 trimmer/brushcutter which has the bicycle bar handle setup, it wasn't getting spark which was an easy fix as it just had a loose connection and it runs great.
Just the inter day I found a 2014 toro recycler personal pace self propelled lawn mower with out the bag, I rolled it home and put a new plug in and clean the carb and sold it for $200!!! Just goes to show what rich people throw away!!
The thing that destroys most 2-cycle engines is improper fuel-oil mix ratio. The premix is great, and the fuel doesn't seem to evaporate from the mixture and leave just oil in the carb as bad as the stuff you mix yourself. Most people including myself just don't like the aggravation of messing with them. That's why you find them so easily lol
I snagged two older Craftsman and one Homelite trimmers and a John Deere leaf blower for $40. One craftsman needs a trigger, the other vibrates. The homelite needed a head and muffler, the JD leaf blower needed a carb rebuild. Sold the leaf blower with backpack for $200. Keeping the trimmers, each with different heads for different purposes.
I found a weed whacker in a dumpster years ago. I changed out the gas and fuel lines. 10 years later still running. Green weedeater featherlite.
I like channels that work on mowers and lawn equipment
You should do more videos like this. People throw away so much great stuff its actually amazing. I've found a Stihl FS-40C Trimmer, a Homelite Gas Blower, a Black and Decker mower, a Troy-Bilt backpack blower and much more. They all work fine too. I also own an ECHO SRM225 trimmer. That thing has never let me down
The Weed Wacker one I would've not bothered because those are made to be disposable. They are sub-$50 trimmers new. I haven't had any luck with those, ever.
I love how if you put on captions at
"go off?" lol.. Anyways, thanks for the vid my man, I did learn a couple of things.👍😉
Congratulations on your first failure. I despise those small Walbro-type carbs. Once they stuff up they are nearly impossible to clean. Good job on the Echo though. I have a minor request: Try to minimize swinging your camera around when you aren't using a tripod. It gives us older folks a headache, lol. Thanks.
Believe it or not, I have that same weed eater brand weed eater and I just fired it up last week for its 20th mowing season, it’s like the weed eater that won’t die only thing I’ve done to it it put new fuel lines in it
Great video!!
I chuckled when you thought something might be wrong with the Echo trimmer head. Nope, nothing missing; you just push in pre-cut lengths of line. When they break or get too short, you use a needle nose to pull them through from the middle. Of course you have to make certain to push the cut line far enough to begin with.
Echo sounds like it just needs a tuning. I’ve had to tune mine. You’ll need a double d tune driver
I wish I could find free stuff like that. Any ideas where I could?
The weed eater looks like one of our old ones we had years ago.it's probably good for parts, ours ran but we were CONSTANTLY adjusting the carburetor.
Great pick
The echo head is fine. There are 4 screws on top, take them out then you put precut string in it then put them back in
Did you try changing the fuel filter or spark plug?