The Honda has been quite good as a pole saw, only had the chain come off once, and that was my own fault for forgetting to watch the tension during the initial "Stretch In" period.
Apart from that, it's been good, helped a lot with the higher blackberry sections, and vines, and on top of that, it helped me take down a 3" tree that I could not get to easily with the chainsaw (needed to be taken out that day, but with little light left there was no time for the necessary limbing, so I poked the pole saw through, and did it that way!)
The ROK Hedge trimmer is still impressing me, it's done a good 6 hours of work now, well and truly above its paygrade, and far outside it's specs, and is still going strong, my biggest issue with it is the cut of switch, it's in a place that is easy to hit by mistake while working, apart from that there's just the soft guard tines that need reshaping here and there, which is no big fuss.
I'm growing more concerned with the Ozito chainsaw however, I think it may need some work tomorrow night to modify the tensioner, and overcome the slacking issue (quick google search reveals this as a common issue) apart form the tensioner playing up, it's running fine!
The Honda has been the star of the show so far, easiest to start, and very good on the power, combined with the carbide tip 40T blades, there's not really anything it can't get through, it's taking on the 1m+ grass as if it wasn't there, and the blackberry's are no match what so ever!
I have a spare GX35 engine I got some time ago from Redeye, which I lan to get up and running and fit to the backpack brush cutter Gizmo1993 gave me, as I find the Honda really low on vibration, which is my biggest issue with the backpack brush cutter.
Most area's of general scrub are slashed down easily with the Honda/carbide mix, then I swap to line head to get it down lower and tidier, and finally it gets a quick run over with the Utility to even things up (the line head also helps prep for the mower by exposing bricks)
The blackberry mass is being tackled with a rotating mix of the 2 chainsaws for the thick centre stems, the pole saw and pole hedge trimmer to bring down the overhead area's, the ROK hedge trimmer to bash it down to knee hight, and then the honda/carbide mix to clear it, after that, the utility gets a run over to knock the stems down to the ground before poisoning!
