thanks for that, i just spoke to the guy who we bought our hayter petrol mower from and he mentioned the stihl. It's just for the perimeter of our plot which is quite high with weeds, once we cut a path into it then it won't need much strimming so we didn't want to pay a lot but also didn't want a bad one, he mentioned that screwfix have a ryobi one with a free hedgecutter head for £100 he said that they are quite a good make so i am leaning towards that one, he quoted me £270 for a stihl but we don't want to spend that.