Milwaukee is expanding their line of M18 Fuel Quik-Lok outdoor tools with 5 new attachments.
The Milwaukee Quik-Lok system features a brushless motor base handle and growing line of quick-change tools and attachments.
All of the new attachments will be launching in January 2024.
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Quik-Lok Blower Attachment (49-16-2793)
The new Milwaukee Quik-Lok blower attachment provide users with extra reach, making it easier to clear around, under, or above obstacles.
- 120 MPH max air speed
- 500 CFM max airflow
- 12N blowing force
- 59 dB(A) sound pressure rating
- 34″ length
- 66″ overall length (with M18 Fuel Power Head)
- Weighs 4.6 lbs
Price: $159
Quik-Lok Hedge Trimmer Attachment (49-16-2796)
The new split-boom 20″ hedge trimmer can cut branches up to 3/4″ thick.
- 20″ blade length
- Tip guard
- 3/4″ max cutting capacity
- 3500 SPM
- 41.2″ length
- Weighs 4.3 lbs
Price: $169
Quik-Lok Cultivator Attachment (49-16-2739)
Milwaukee’s first cultivator attachment breaks up, loosens, and mixes the ground for creating or maintaining garden beds.
- 9″ tilling width
- (4) 9″ diameter 4-tine bolo blades
- 41.5″ length
- Weighs 9.4 lbs
Price: $249
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Quik-Lok Reciprocator Attachment (49-16-2794)
The reciprocator is part trimmer, part brush cutter. Milwaukee designed the cutting head to minimize thrown debris and prevent marring during close proximity cutting.
- Dual 9″ blades
- 1/2″ cutting capacity
- 4,900 CPM
- 38″ length
- Weighs 5.2 lbs
Price: $399
Quik-Lok Bed Redefiner Attachment (49-16-2795)
The Quik-Lok bed definer is used to reestablish garden bed edges, and has an integrated mud flap and blade guard to help prevent debris kickback and promote material containment during use.
- 35″ length
- 2,000 RPM
- Mud flaps prevent dirt and debris kick-back
- Skid plate protects gear box from wear
- 2.75″ trench cutting depth
- 3.0″ trench width
- Weighs 6.4 lbs
Price: $279
Steven+B
Don’t these attachments cost more than dedicated tools and take up a similar amount of space?
Saulac
I hope the answer is no. The attachments cost significantly less. Other wise, why? I understand gas engines are expensive and people want avoid maintaining too many of those at the expense of having to swap attachments.
Stuart
I don’t believe so.
JD
Very close. This is the reason I went with the Ryobi 40v. It’s attachments are quite a bit cheaper and backwards compatible with 20 years of expand-it tools.
I’ve moved almost everything else over to M18, but the trimmer attachments for M18 are just too hard to justify for a homeowner. Some like the hedge trimmer are identical to the Ryobi version just a different shaft. In the pro category Stihl Combi attachments seem much higher quality.
Jason
I got rid of Quiklok for the same reason, wanted to be part of the universal system
MM
The “reciprocator” attachment is curious. I’ve seen double-disc type grass/brush cutter heads before, but the cutting mechanism rotates. Either one blade is stationary while the other rotates or they counter-rotate. Echo even offers a few different types with varying tooth counts on the blades so you can get a coarser one optimized for thicker material or a fine-toothed one for thin grass. This sounds like it oscillates, more like a hedge trimmer instead? I am curious how the performance compares.
Steve
One would think the reciprocating action would be better, kind of like hair clippers. The rotating action may not allow the grass to enter the cutting slots, if that makes sense. I’ve seen people buy the “rotary scissors” and attach it to the standard Milwaukee trimmer unit. This is definitely a nice attachment for avoiding damage when trimming around fences or trees.
Jared
I was wondering the same thing. I’m going to need to see a video!
Except gee whiz… $400 for that attachment. Yikes.
Scott
I used Redmax reciprocating head trimmers 30 years ago (! but I was really young then) in golf course applications – edging sand traps/bunket, horizontal cutting in a sand trap to remove roots, and trimming underwater on a canal bank. They would work for sidewalk and bed edging too but the blades were expensive and time consuming to sharpen. We used for just those very special applications. Redmax had great engines I remember.
Jimmie
I wish Ego offered a reciprocator attachment.
At first I was surprised to see a bed-edger attachment for a 20V tool then I re-read your description. Used on an already established, well-maintained bed, I can see this re-definer working pretty well.
Rob H
Has anyone had luck with an attached cultivator before? I’ve tried two different ones and they were terrible. Maybe my expectations were too high, but I tried them in loose material and regular ground and got nowhere fast.
Jason
The Greenworks 80V has been surprisingly solid for me
Hon Cho
I’ve never used a cultivator with an electric (battery nor corded) head but have a lot of time with one on a a variety of 2 stroke power heads. They don’t have much breaking ability and work best in loose soil. My technique was to use them in a pulling mode. The tines are rotating forward and I pull the unit back over the area of ground I’m working. I can’t see doing a lot of ground without multiple batteries on a cordless unit.
PETE
I have a electric plug in tiller that looks to be twice as wide. I’ve beat the snot out of it using in super hard compact ground that has big rocks. Works great.
Maybe you need a tiller vs a cultivator?
JD
I’ve used the Ryobi 40v version. Looks mostly identical. I wouldn’t call the experience pleasant, but it got the job done and held up well.
Nathan
Their bed definer blade is different from the one I’m used to.
The cultivator should work ok. I had similar for my 4 cycle machine.
Saulac
Other brands had to come up with higher voltage systems, yet Milwaukee keeps churning out 18v tools just fine (understood they had MX, but that is another league) I am second guessing my recent decision of getting into Ryobi 40v and the not so recent decision to stay with Dewalt 20v. Does Milwaukee have the secret sauce to get more power out of their tools/batteries?
Xrh07
No. Their Quik-Lok trimmer vibrates too much, can melt batteries and definitely isn’t as powerful as the Dewalt Flexvolt. Had both, the DeWalt has a couple build quality misses too, but the universal coupler more than makes up for it.
Doresoom
Ryobi 40V or EGO 56V are both the main OPE platforms that I recommend to friends. The 18V batteries just don’t have enough watt hours for OPE unless you have a ton of 12Ah batteries. Plus look at Milwaukee’s dual battery blower pricing. Their bare tool price is pretty much the same as Ryobi’s 730 CFM blower’s two battery kit.
Dominic S
I wouldn’t recommend another Echo battery product the way they abandoned the 58V line. What a joke that was.
Adam
Great to actually some innovattion on this front from them. Everything so far has been the same as everyone else, but took years to…copy them. I don’t have any issues with my string trimmer, but had I known the attachments were going to be released like molasses, I would have gone another route, and sort of still have the option. I can at least relegate the M18 to a lesser needed property, and expand more on my Ryobi or more likely Ego units (ryobi was only for the tiller & Ego for the snow thrower)
Mark M.
None of these do much for me personally but the Quik-Lok system as a whole has been fantastic. I use the heck out of my pole saw, trimmer and edger. On the OPE front, also have to give props to the hedge trimmer. That thing is an absolute beast and the battery consumption is next to nothing. I don’t know how they pulled that one off but the hedge trimmer is a standout performer.
Eliot Truelove
I wish you could buy adapters to other power brands attachments, as it would be awesome to put for instance an Ego snow thrower attachment onto a Milwaukee or Makita Powerhead (18,36, or 40v), or attach the standard connection style attachments of years back that you had with your two stroke powerhead onto a newer battery unit of the brand of your choosing.
Proprietary connections lock you into a brand, but it would be nice to use other companies attachments and let the best quality win.
Doug N
Makita. Ego, and Milwaukee are proprietary like you said. But Ryobi, Dewalt, and MTD (maybe others) share a universal square drive connection. I use attachments from all three companies on my Flexvolt trimmer powerhead.
Ryobi recently announced some new attachments including a rubber paddle brush, and gutter blower/cleaner.
https://www.ryobitools.com/search?ryobitools_production_search_products%5Bquery%5D=Expand%20it
Adam
I meant to copy/paste this text (other post is awaiting approval):
The only modification you have to do is there a small plastic tab on the outside diameter of the shaft at the connection end of the ego attachment. File this down flush flush with the shaft outer diameter.
Adam
Apparently you can use Ego attachments if you remove the collar to the attachment. I’m waiting on the snow thrower attachment to arrive so I can try out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bH5d8VfwbHI
BrianA
Too expensive and too late to the game. Yet the Fuel base tool is flawed like mentioned and they haven’t come up with a Gen2, don’t know if the non-Fuel one fixed some issues. Plus the new dual battery version is dedicated string trimmer no attachments, then dedicated telescoping pruner & pole saw coming. It’s like the just keep churning out OPE products in the works for years even though not compatible or makes sense today. The dual battery blower and then dual battery backpack 9 months apart. Had I known the backpack was on the way would of never bought the dual battery one, which is too heavy and awkward with little benefit over the latest single, which I also think single fuel blower Gen3 is soon released,
Adam
The dual battery blower is night & day over the single battery. I won’t touch the lawn with the single. I used the Ego backpack along with the dual battery in the other hand. I thought for sure the Ego was doing more work, but I was wrong.
I will agree the weight is a problem. I used 6ah Forge, 8ah, & 12ah pairs, and look forward to the backpack if it improves upon the handheld.
The Forge didn’t seem to add any benefit for this tool, other than the most pleasant to hold obviously.
Mnoswad
Anyone have a way to mitigate the vibration of the m18 quikloc system? My hands are numb for a couple days after using it all day.
Patrick
I, for one, am looking forward to handing Milwaukee more of my money for a couple of these. The bed definer and cultivator in particular are compelling to me, as they’re things I was considering buying a standalone tool for, but why bother since I’ve already got the quik-loc weedeater. My wife will love these too, as we were planning on redoing our flower beds this coming spring.
HGForage
Make a gutter cleaner blower attachment! I want a monetary kick back when this hits market, Milwaukee.
Dominic S
How about a pole scrubber attachment? Ryobi has one and I want to buy it to clean my kitchen and shower tile/grout situation but I’d rather just have an attachment to my quik-lok head instead of a new battery system.