If you pay attention, it doesn't have a throttle lever. The throttle is the lever that locks the head. This means you have to put it forward and keep the head locked. That is, you have to pull the starter cord while the head and the belt turn at the same time. This is easy while it's new, it starts easily, but as it gets older it gets heavier and your hand hurts, it kicks back, meaning it turns in reverse as you pull the starter to start it and it almost pulls your hand off, the machine turns backwards from the strain, you hear creepy creaks from the recoil like in vampire movies and everything seems like it's about to break, it pulls suddenly and the starter rope gets tangled and twisted during the return and the reverse turns—especially if you haven't started it in a long time, so you need strong hands and with the force needed to start it, the starter also gets strained and eventually breaks no matter what starter you put on it. When you release the locking lever and the head unlocks and stops turning, the throttle closes and it shuts off. It has a governor like all of them, meaning a wire that connects the carburetor and the throttle to the crankshaft, and when it is about to stall when it meets tough grass and gets strained, it accelerates by itself and increases the revs and doesn't stall, but for it to work you have to keep the carburetor and the throttle wires clean so they don't get clogged with grass. The fact that the head is permanently locked is a plus because it doesn't have idle and the belt doesn't turn in the air like in others, so it doesn't wear out, heat up, or break when the belt spins in the air, nor does it have the plastic rollers underneath like other machines that wear out, heat up, and break all the time. To lock the head and make it turn, it only has a large metal pulley near the head that doesn't break for anything and doesn't wear out the belt, and generally the machine is very convenient, much lighter than all the other machines, so it doesn't tire you when pushing or cutting and it loads easily into a car trunk. The metal bar has bolts with plastic butterfly nuts that can be tightened and loosened by hand, and the bar folds twice and takes up just enough space for the machine, although the bolts on the bar need improvement as they loosen and don't tighten, and the bolts at the base of the bar need improvement because they loosen and grover nuts should be added. Be careful with the spark plug, it takes a special size spark plug made in France with a long neck, make sure you get its spark plug wrench. There are also very cheap engines of the same brand if the engine burns out. Be careful with the oil, don't fill it to the top because with sloping ground it gets into the cylinder and the carburetor up to the filter, fills with oil, burns the oil, smokes, and shuts off, especially if it tips over while cutting, then it doesn't start easily, you need to wash the filter and carburetor with pure gasoline and then wait for it to dry, and the engine gets damaged if it burns oil like this often. On the downside, the oil cap doesn't have a long neck, it's very low, hidden behind the right wheel, and it's hard to get your hand in there to screw or unscrew it, and it's hard to fill with oil, you need a funnel with a long thin spout, and it's hard to check the oil level in the crankcase. Its price is very good compared to what it offers because at this price you get an average two-stroke backpack, but the two-stroke consumes a lot, you carry weight, it destroys your back, it burns double the gasoline, and it also needs good expensive oil, plus you breathe in a lot of exhaust with burnt oil, your clothes and hair stink, you feel gross after an hour. So with this machine, you can work comfortably for over an hour with one liter of regular gasoline, using the thick five-point Emak blue star trimmer line, you can even cut small trees. Only one person imports this trimmer line in Chalandri, push your dealer to find it and order it for you. Note: the machine generally only cuts on relatively smooth, flat surfaces, it can't work on steep slopes because with an incline the four-stroke engine can't draw oil and it burns out, gets destroyed. Also, this engine can't have its cylinder-piston changed, it's a single piece combined with the crankcase like a saxophone. Generally, all these vertical engines of brushcutters and lawnmowers are single piece, their cylinder-pistons are combined with the gearbox-crankcase like a saxophone, but this specific engine is available as a spare part and is very cheap, if it burns out you can replace it, it also fits lawn mowers. The recoil starter broke, luckily the flywheel on top has a big ring, I made a cut in the starter ring with a cutter and start it by wrapping the rope. I found a children's battery-powered jeep, took off the wheels with the drive motors and the wires, bought a big battery and charger, I will adapt it to give power. I have two more like this with Hyundai Blue Bird engines with gearbox and speeds, but I use this one more because it's lighter than the others. A big plus is that the head doesn't have bearings underneath, so grass doesn't get into the bearings like in others where grass clogs them, the bearings loosen and they hit like a jackhammer