I see several advantages of the Supercut trimmer head.
*manually*. My recent trimmer heads allow to load the line “automatically” while the case remains closed. This *looks* like an advantage but is none. You do not see what's happening inside and in the case of two of my candidates, mess was happening. I prefer the manual spool!Me neither. As the action is dictated by the drag of the rotating cord, size matters.., or weight. Density, meaning material… Maybe they “measure” the difference in drag between both ends of the cord and hope that it will frequently be extreme enough to deduce the need for more line… Or they insist on 1 and the same cord size forever. But I am not concerned, as Stihl is exactly not a brand that I will give money to – for a diversity of reasons, morality being one (I am dumb that way), hype another. There are details of Stihl machines which may be praised as sophisticated, by some, I call them onerous.
For example, I have a clear vision of what a fuel tank cap should look like and how it should work. While on my Shindaiwa chainsaw (and my McCullough, too) you open the cap, fill in the fuel mixture and then just close the cap again, Stihl needs a complicated mechanism which will ultimately break. A few flowery metaphors may be needed before you admit that they made money from repute.
Thank you for the video. I will order my new/old Honda head *now*.
Cheerio
Michael