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NOTE: This brush cutter is not designed to be used with a circular saw blade for cutting
trees.
MOWING WITH A STRING CUTTING HEAD
WARNING
DANGER
Tilting the string cutting head to the wrong side will cause debris to be thrown TOWARDS
YOU! If you hold the string cutting head flat on the ground so that the cutting is performed on
the whole string circle circumference, the material being cut will be thrown TOWARDS YOU,
the drag will slow the engine down and you will use up a lot of string.
Use only a quality nylon monofilament string of 2.4 mm diameter. Never use a wire or a
wire-reinforced string. Load the string cutting head only with nylon cutting string of the proper
diameter.
Use extreme caution when operating on bare spots and gravel covered areas as the rotating
string can throw small stones up at high speed. The protective guards on the brush cutter
cannot catch objects bounced back from hard surfaces.
In almost all cases it is good practice to tilt the string cutting head so that contact with the
material being cut is made on the side where the string is moving AWAY from you and from the
protective guard (see the figure below). In this case, the material being cut will be thrown AWAY
FROM YOU.
TRIMMING
Carefully move the trimmer into the grass you are going to mow. Slowly tilt the cutting head so
that the material being cut is thrown away from you. If you are trimming against a barrier such
as a fence, wall or tree, approach it from an angle from which the material being cut and any
thrown objects are bounced off the barrier away from you. Slowly bring the string cutting head
near to the barrier but do not push the string into it (the string should not hit the barrier). Be
careful when trimming grass near wire-net fencing and edge the cutting string close to the fence
while taking care not to hit the wire. If you push the cutting string into the wire netting, it will be
