{"id":24903,"date":"2015-10-05T02:00:32","date_gmt":"2015-10-05T09:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=24903"},"modified":"2015-09-15T16:08:45","modified_gmt":"2015-09-15T23:08:45","slug":"toro-cordless-24-inch-hedge-trimmer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/toro-cordless-24-inch-hedge-trimmer\/","title":{"rendered":"Toro Cordless 24-Inch Hedge Trimmer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just spent a glorious morn with this very cool tool. The past decade has been spent tackling Leylandii hedges and other native barrier hedging with a hand-powered trimmer. While good exercise, this 68-year-old body can find more pleasant ways toward fitness.<\/p>\n<p>Gas-powered trimmers were out because the noise and fumes drive me more than slightly batty. Plus I hadn&#8217;t owned a gas car or all the other paraphernalia needed for years.<\/p>\n<p>So, after a bit of reading reviews, I ordered the Toro cordless from Home Depot. I didn&#8217;t shop around, just bought it for about $200 including hefty taxes. There are cheaper cordless trimmers from 12-18V, but the bar length and good reports of battery life convinced me.<\/p>\n<p>I did two long sessions with the Toro this morning. I wore out before the battery did. One-handed operation is fairly easy with the 6.8 lb tool and it easily cuts up to 3\/4&#8243; which is bigger than most new growth.<\/p>\n<p>And another big plus was the first battery re-charge was just over 1 hour\u2026 far faster than me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Battery-powered trimmer cuts through branches up to 5\/8-inch thick<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24903"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24903"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24905,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24903\/revisions\/24905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}