Lidl Parkside hedge trimmer

I have one of the long reach ones, I went through a couple of ordinary cordless hedge trimmers first. The long one with the adjustable head I think is streets ahead of the basic hedge trimmer unless of course you don't have anything a bit on the high side although the adjustable head bit is handy for doing sides of hedge as well, I do find it very handy. Bit heavy is my only complaint but I've become used to it and use it an awful lot to keep various hedges in trim.

I bought one and it's ridiculous.

The lead is exactly one centimetre long so you can't do anything with the flipping thing. You have to buy some kind of extension lead somewhere to use it so it's unusable out of the box.

Where would I get a bloody extension lead for this thing?

I can't use it.

Do you mean the battery one? I have the long-reach and the standard. The long-reach seems extremely underpowered to be honest. Not quite useless but not too far off it in my opinion.....

That is to be expected. Most power tools you need an extension lead. Screwfix will have.

Yes. the cord is exactly 2cms long with a plug hanging off it. I had it on the belt in Lidl, and I thought - no way am I bringing this home and having to cut off the plug and make a join with a proper cable, having paid €65 for that hassle. So I put it back on the shelf.

Plus it seemed a ton weight taking it to the till, so how practical would it be cutting hedges. What kind of person thought it was suitable to put a plug 2cms from the hedge trimmer motor. Idiotic.

I would rather put the €65 towards a proper long reach cordless.

No it's as I said, it's 2cm, there's basically no power cord, the plug is stuck to the thing, unusable.

I had it in the box for months so didn't even know. Anyway I've ordered an extension cord off Amazon so that I can use it. I think it's beyond ridiculous really though. I can't comment on whether or not it's any good but not being open about the fact it needs an extension cord is like false advertising really. Lidl shouldn't be allowed to do that. I actually couldn't believe it when I opened it, I was ages trying to figure out how the heck do you extend the plug, where is the fricking lead to plug it in, am I doing something wrong but in the instructions(which are useless and don't explain sweet feck all) it mentions an extension lead which when going through the contents of the box does not exist and has to be found somewhere else and bought separately. It's probably the only time in my life I've bought something that's unusable out of the box and requires an accessory to work.

I felt that people should be warned about this.

I bought an extension cord and used it with it. Maybe I was doing something wrong but it didn't appear to extend at all to me and was stuck to the trimmer.

I love my cordless short one anyway, just the regular green Parkside one not the black performance version they have in atm, guilty of using it as a bit of a chainsaw at times on very woody bushes but with a fully charged 4ah battery it just rips through stuff. It actually cuts better than the electric extendable version I used to have but I gave that away because I hated it and yes the tiny power cord was one of the things that annoyed me the most.

And I'll bet you it's because electrical cable is expensive 🤣

+1 to the longer Parkside one. I tended to only cut the hedge twice a year and it would be huge at that point. And several car trips to the dump. So took me a full day driving back and forth to dump. Moving the too short extension lead was a faff.

Use the cordless one now and do it maybe every 6 weeks or so. Takes me 1 hour and fits in the brown bin. Plus it looks much tidier.