I bought this from a local hardware store and it worked great for about 3 months, then the rotor stopped spinning. I just brought it back and swapped it out for a new one. This one has lasted a year, and had the same problem--motor running but the rotor was not spinning. I opened it up to find that the belt had broken and looked very frayed (there were small rubber pieces strewn throughout the motor area.I won't buy another, and am very disappointed with B&D; and won't buy another hog. I had a Toro before these that lasted 6 years and worked fine. Don't know what I'll get next.

I returned the 1st GH600 because the line would not feed. I threw the 2nd one in the trash as a reminder to myself this is not the Black & Decker that used to make good tools. This Black % Decker makes JUNK.

It takes less than 5 minutes to empty the spool... it has a 'sensor' that tells it to spit out string.I bought it since it was the most expensive corded electric in the store (THD)... and it was still cheap.It was never an issue to bounce the spool on the ground like the old ones worked... but they went and 'fixed' it anyway...Gas powered ones that work well enough, and more expensive than a push mower, so I'm off to look at garage sales to get an old one that has not been over-engineered.

I recently bought this model after my previous B&D trimmer gave up the ghost. Although the previous model had occasionally failed to feed string automatically, by and large, it had worked quite well. Not so with the new model. Two strings mean less capacity and THEY DO NOT FEED. Not automatically, not reliably, mostly not at all. Check out the reviews anywhere else for ANY of the current auto feed models, they just don't work. You have no recourse but to open up the spool and feed it out by hand every time it gets too short to use. I went with the only 'bump' model left on the market and CR's second top choice. (They got it way wrong with the B&D.) Save time, try another brand, this one is not worth the money. How the mighty have fallen; it's really sad.

When it was working well it was OK. But just OK. What drove me nuts was the fact that to replace the string you have to buy an entire spool designed just for this model, which costs much more than simply buying the string. Maybe that's convenient for some, but it's expensive. I had thought that would be no problem; I'll just buy cheap string and wind it on to the old spool myself, how hard can that be? Well, somehow they were able to design this so that adding the string yourself so that it will work is impossible, which can't have been an accident. Clever, those B&D; designers, but it's cost them at least one customer for life.Eventually the trigger switch went bad so that it wouldn't run at all. That actually was a relief, since it meant I could finally throw the turkey out. I got a cheaper, lighter, non-B&D; model that works fine.

I bought the product, took it home and every time I went to use it, the cord top flew off. When it broke and flew off, I called B&D; to complain and they admitted that this model wasn't functioning right. They sent me a new no-break top for the cord area, that promptly flew off. They replaced that one, too.I was able to use it two or three times - the cord top didn't come off, but the cord didn't auto-feed properly ever.Last summer I took it out and the engine died. I called up B&D; again and they said that they had recalled the model entirely, but that mine was too old.B&D; used to be a brand of quality, but this trimmer was fail from beginning to end.