Instruction Manual

► Attempt to pull the trigger without depressing
the lockout lever.
► If the trigger can be pulled: Do not use your
hedge trimmer and contact your STIHL servic‐
ing dealer.
Retaining latch or trigger lockout is faulty.
►
Push the retaining latch into position
.
► Depress the trigger lockout lever and hold it in
that position.
► Pull the trigger.
► Release the trigger and trigger lockout lever.
► If the trigger or trigger lockout is stiff or does
not spring back to the idle position: Do not use
your hedge trimmer and contact your STIHL
servicing dealer.
Trigger or trigger lockout is faulty.
Switch Lever
► Remove the battery.
► Depress the switch lever and release it again.
► If the switch lever is stiff or does not spring
back to its idle position: Do not use your
hedge trimmer and contact your STIHL servic‐
ing dealer.
The switch lever has a malfunction.
Switch on the hedge trimmer
► Fit the battery.
► Depress the switch lever and release it again.
► If the cutting blades have run or are running:
Do not use your hedge trimmer and contact
your STIHL servicing dealer.
The trigger has a malfunction.
► Depress the trigger lockout lever and hold it in
that position.
► Pull the trigger and hold it there.
► If the cutting blades run: Do not use your
hedge trimmer and contact your STIHL servic‐
ing dealer.
The switch lever has a malfunction.
► Depress the switch lever and hold it in that
position.
The cutting blades run.
► If 3 LEDs flash red: Remove the battery and
contact your STIHL servicing dealer.
There is a malfunction in the hedge trimmer.
► Release the switch lever.
The cutting blades stop running after about 1
second.
► If the cutting blades continue to run after 1
second: Remove the battery and contact your
STIHL servicing dealer.
Your hedge trimmer has a malfunction.
9.2 Testing the Battery
► Press button on battery.
The LEDs glow or flash.
► If the LEDs do not glow or flash: Do not use
the battery and contact your STIHL servicing
dealer.
There is a malfunction in the battery.
10 Operating the Hedge Trim‐
mer
10.1 Holding and Controlling the
Hedge Trimmer
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► Hold the hedge trimmer with one hand on the
control handle – wrap your thumb around the
control handle.
► Hold the hedge trimmer with the other hand on
the loop handle – wrap your thumb around the
loop handle.
10.2 Cutting
► Use lopping shears or a chainsaw to cut out
thick branches first.
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► Swing the hedge trimmer from the bottom
upwards in an arc while making the cut.
► Lower the nose of the hedge trimmer without
cutting.
► Walk slowly and steadily forwards.
► Swing the hedge trimmer from the bottom
upwards in an arc while making the cut.
► Cut the other side of the hedge in the same
way.
► Hold the cutting blades at an angle of 0° to 10°
to the top of the hedge.
► Swing the hedge trimmer horizontally and in
an arc while making the cut.
► If cutting performance deteriorates: Sharpen
the cutting blades.
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