The body of the ECHO HC-165 Hedge Trimmer is the expected ECHO orange, with a white fuel tank and black throttle handle which is comfortable to use and includes a rubber overmold that ensures it will be “grippy” and much softer than just plastic. While similar trimmers give you an 8-12 ounce tank, you can fill up the ECHO HC-165 and get anywhere from 30-50% more run-time based on the added fuel capacity. What I like about this is that the choice is yours.
Of course, it also means you can run this trimmer for a long time without having to stop and refuel it. That means you could add around 1 pound to this baby just in fuel.
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You see, the fuel tank can hold a full 16.9 ounces of 50:1 fuel. At just 12.1 lbs, this is one of the lighter models on the market, but it carries the potential for adding a lot more weight. I don’t know how ECHO balances their products so well, but the 24″ blade hung perfectly flat as the tool hung from our fingers via the support handle. Picking up the HC-165, we felt the balance of the trimmer, which was perfect. Aside from just being more convenient, we feel it’s safer as well. All of this reduces the need to bend and twist into unnatural shapes while cutting hedges and bushes. That’s 5 different positions that give you a lot of control over your cutting. Rather than just rotating around the axis at 90 degree increments, the HC-165 allows you to use the handle vertically, or left and right at both 45-degree and 90-degree angles. We’re talking, of course, about the rotating handle. So useful, in fact, that we now believe it should be standard on all hedge trimmers. In fact, the one big stand-out feature it has is really useful. Like the ECHO CS-400 18″ Chainsaw we reviewed last month, the HC-165 Hedge Trimmer doesn’t have a ton of useless frills. After priming the bulb we typically had this trimmer up and running in 3 effortless pulls. The 21.1 cc Power Boost “Vortex” engine is familiar, and with the i-30 starter, cranks up in no time.
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