Hello -
I have a relative who needs to be able to trim about 400 metres of tough hedgerow once a year. At present they have a light but sturdy electric hedge trimmer, but the cable obviously isn't long enough. The furthest bit of hedge is 200 metres from a power socket, I can think of 4 options, in descending order of sensibleness:
1) Buy a petrol hedge trimmer, maybe £200. With this size of job, I guess it would be a fairly hefty one, so there would be safety issues and also and presumably a learning period while arm muscles were built up.2) Buy a small petrol generator (maybe less than £200), and run the electric trimmer from this. The generator might be useful for other tasks, and we could carry on using the nice light electric trimmer.
3) All of the hedgerow is accessible by car, so we could buy an inverter (maybe less than £200) and run the electric trimmer from that. The inverter might be useful for other things. Time spent setting up the wires and stuff would not be a problem, as it would only happen once a year.4) Work out what sort of cable would be needed to run the electric hedge trimmer 200 metres away from the house. It would have to be hefty to reduce voltage drop and there are probably safety issues to look into.
Should we just take the conventional option of a petrol hedgetrimmer?