Brushcutter Heads: Which One Should You Choose?

A brush cutter is the ultimate multipurpose gardening tool. Not only because they can cope with different kinds of vegetation, but also because they can be fitted with various cutting devices on the swivel end. The basic accessories are cutting wires, blades, and discs. The choice of cutting attachments and associated specifications (size, shape, and material) depends on the type of vegetation you need to work with.

Additionally, brush cutters can be equipped with trimming accessories, such as trimmers (that is, guide bars with chains, similar to standard trimmers or chainsaws), or even hedge trimmer blades. In this article, we'll focus on brush cutter heads with cutting wires, probably the most popular type of cutting equipment.

Brush cutter heads are not all the same, and on the market, you can find lawnmowers with a variety of features and methods of operation.

Depending on the type, a brushcutter head is basically a cutting line holder or container. It is usually an enclosure that can be opened to replace the wiring that is wound around the coil. The most common type - which has long been the market standard - is the "plug and play" cord. To send the new line out as it wears out, without having to stop work and turn off the brush cutter to remove it manually, simply tap the head to the ground while the machine is running without interrupting your work.

A critical step when using a brushcutter head is to load the line once it is used up. It's not a complicated task, especially if you've done it before and have nimble fingers, but it's sure to waste precious time. If you want to load cutting lines without tools, save time and speed up your work, use the quick loading head.

Pay attention to the quality of the head material. You'll pay more for an enclosure made of reinforced plastic or fiberglass. We recommend that you avoid much cheaper materials, which are significantly less durable.

In addition to the traditional shell-type heads for brush cutters, there are also multi-wire heads. Unlike other sprinklers that use one continuous length of wound wire, the multi-wire sprinkler has a retention system for attaching multiple wires, and you can buy ready-made wire or cut your own to the appropriate length from a brushcutter wire coil.

The brush cutter head can take cutting lines of different diameters and cross-sections. Brushcutter lines are made from a variety of materials, from traditional copolymers to the most innovative. Thickness, shape, and material are critical to the performance of the line (abrasion and breakage resistance, durability, cleanliness of cuts, noise emissions, etc.) and basically determine the type of work you can do. In order of difficulty, you can use brush cutter threads:

Only mow the grass.

Remove weeds and scrub.

Also cuts thorns, reeds, and shrubs: Cutting lines that can handle this type of vegetation are often resistant to stone and wall impacts (this applies to all high-performance lines).

Cut down saplings in bushes.

The rule of thumb is the tougher the vegetation, the more powerful the brush cutter needs to be. But that's not enough, because the wire itself is crucial: you need to choose the right wire for the machine and the job at hand. The wire should be proportional to the brushcutter's power rating (and thus the power source) and suitable for the type of vegetation you need to cut (not only in thickness but also in cross-section and material).

The above briefly introduces how to choose the trimming head of the brush cutter. If you want to buy spare parts for the brush cutter, please contact us.

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