text: Great, great choice.
  
  I've always bought 2-stroke engine tools for use in the yard. I've had Echo, Toro, and Ryobi, (Home Depot junk, their carburetors are terrible) It doesn't take long for the 2-cycle engine to get harder and harder to start with more pulls. Right out of the box, with the 1st tank of gas (not the oil-gas mix like for 2 cycle engines,) the 4 cycle Makita started on the 1st pull and has been a delight to start every time I have used it since. What a delight it is to have a 4 cycle engine. Buy one if you need a new yard machine.