Amazon has the Black & Decker NST2018 18-volt 12" Grasshog Cordless Electric Trimmer for $80 with free shipping. Features a telescoping shaft, auto line advance, gear drive transmission, and includes two 18V NiCad batteries.
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I need to whack some weeds.
haha mofo said nicad!
I'm not sure about how long a battery powered trimmer would last, but if the price drops $20 more, I'd give it a try. The batteries alone are worth that.
These are actually comparably to gas powered in terms of cutting strength. They give you two batteries because you only get about 6-10 minutes of continual usage from each.
This trimmer uses 1500mAH cells in the packs, 15 cells/pack, 30 total. You can get 30 x 2200mAH tabbed cells off ebay for about $46.
I'm suggesting that it's more economical and you get more runtime by rebuilding the packs than buying replacements, though some people won't want to fool with soldering a pack together and I don't know if they can be popped open nondestructively to replace cells when the time comes.
I suspect #4 has had pretty anemic gas trimmers, it would be nearly impossible for this to be as powerful as my Redmax even if it only ran for a minute off a charge. As powerful as the cheapest gas trimmer from Sears when it is out of tune or stale gas and so it is under normal RPM? Maybe. Black & Decker claims one of their upgrade models is what you need for gas trimmer like performance, it has a double voltage pack on what is apparently a higher torque motor since it still spins at close to the same RPM at the head. And it costs twice as much.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0012FRZIM
It's more for small yards, quick jobs where you have only grass and small weeds, nothing woody stemmed to get rid of.