🌻Easy Trick to Load STIHL AutoCut C26-2 String Trimmer Head for Gas or Battery Weedeaters ✅

This is the best trimmer head you can use on your Stihl weedeater. It's easy to load and does not get jammed very often. This video shows you an easy trick to measure the amount of line you need, and quick way to load it.

Materials Used:

AutoCut head (4002 710 2169) is intended for Stihl String Trimmers: FS 55/55 C/56/56 C, FS 70 C, FS 87, FS 90, FS 94, FS 100, FS 120, FS 130, FS 250, FR 450
Standard diameter of .095-inch
Double line for trimming and mowing
Nylon line is fed automatically by tap action

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[nancymason]

Thanks so much. I have been trying to figure out how to do this and even bought smaller line. I even took the head apart. Great instructional video. Thanks.

[DEFIANCE_]

Just saved me a headache and a disturbing day. Thank you for posting this.

[stonepointdrivingschool]

THANK YOU! I saw the 'STHIL' video, they failed to show you all what you showed me, especially the 'push in/and turn'. Though the 'instructions' said up to 23 ft, so when I fed it through, it was about 22', then stopped taking the line. My yard looks MUCH BETTER. GOD BLESS YOU.

[creekfinds]

Excellent straightforward video. I ran out on my first spool at a customers house, and couldn't remember how to reload (purchased last season near the end of the year). Ultimately, he offered, so I used his trimmer to finish the job . Three yards to do today, this was a life-saver.

[wodiah]

Just saved me so much time, it’s already hot and a cold beer waiting, thanks alot

[outlet]

Thanks, your video was a lifesaver and a frustration buster. I toiled for two hours to install a new line in my C26 -2. Didn't help that I misplaced my owner's manual. I've found using a trimer line one size smaller than the maximum works the best. Again, thanks for your help.

[angusmctavish]

Thank you for helping me retain what little sanity I have left.

[peterg]

Thanks for this. I was really struggling as there is nothing about replacing line in the supplied paper instructions.
You did the job with the head off. You don't have to do this . The job is just as easy with the head still attached

[LunchboxISU]

I'm angry at how simple this is. Stihl's online manuals are garbage. They don't come close to making sense of this. FANTASTIC video!

[briannacuny]

Thank you for the video. My dad showed me how to do this but when the time came I couldn't get it to work. Your explanation was perfect and I got it rethreaded without calling dad again. Hahah thank you

[johnclarke]

You do have to disassemble the cutting head to remove any remaining cutting line from the head. I also loaded mine with 25’ of new .095 cutting line. The book says 26 feet, but I only put 25 feet. I used the tougher black/orange Stihl line.

[gmv]

I’m in Australia and every video that came up on Google and YouTube was for a different head, and the Stihl videos weren’t any good. Yours was the only one that made sense, so thanks! Also these electric ones are far superior to the 2-stroke Sthil I’ve had for years for a quarter acre block.

[richardcoles]

Best heads ever..love using them..and by the way you can use 3mm line 2 to 3 full arm spans is fine.

[jimlink]

You did a great job explaining and showing how to reload the Stihl head trimmer. Thank you

[discivillized]

OMG THANK YOU! I was loosing my freaking mind trying to figure this out! Searched my manual and it says NOTHING about how to load it. Bought it from the store preloaded with line. Then I got tangled up or whatever and I commenced to completely taking the head apart and reassembling it in a fashion that made sense to me. I was WAY wrong!
Anyway I was about to give up or go completely postal when I found your video.
Thank you my friend. 🙂✌🏻👊🏻

[acklinspioneer]

Wow easiest simplified video I ever watched!! Bravo bro

[TheBigBlackBox]

Legend! My overgrown garden thanks you my friend!

[Grinzola]

In all my Years and i never knew about this
Thank you ...

[patalexander]

Add comment from grandpa in Texas.
I keep my line to 20 feet, more sometimes is more fiddley to wind and feed. - more so with the 105 thicker line.
I usually cut with a small and old pair of wire cutters. This can give me a ragged end on the cut. If it does not feed through right away I recut one end with a sharp utility/stanly blade on my plastic tool box, a wood block, or the top edge of the plastic trash can.
The clean cut end feeds right through assuming the arrow is lined up.
Finally store your line in a bucket or tupperware under water - even newly purchased spools. Hidden in the Stihl help comments they repeat this a lot. It keeps the line flexible and longer lasting when “working”.
Sorry no answer for that partial spool left over from last time….

[danielmims]

I just had to replace my trimmer line on one of these blows my mind how easy they made it. Love Stihl