Anybody have a weed-wacker I can borrow?

[LeeNetworX]

Friend next door just bought one of these about a month ago and loves it. While it's tempting, I just don't think it would cut it for my lawn; we have too much grass/weeds at the bottom that I can't use the mower to reach. I think it would take 2 battery changes.

http://www.homedepot.com/Outdoors-Ou...atalogId=10053

[OneSickPsycho]

Originally Posted by LeeNetworX

Friend next door just bought one of these about a month ago and loves it. While it's tempting, I just don't think it would cut it for my lawn; we have too much grass/weeds at the bottom that I can't use the mower to reach. I think it would take 2 battery changes.

http://www.homedepot.com/Outdoors-Ou...atalogId=10053

Yeah, but could you REALLY edge with that thing?

[Trip]

I hate edging weedeaters, the guard for edging usually just gets in my way all the damn time. I am not anal enough to have a perfectly edged yard anyway. Just give me a standard weedeater.

[OneSickPsycho]

Originally Posted by Trip

I hate edging weedeaters, the guard for edging usually just gets in my way all the damn time. I am not anal enough to have a perfectly edged yard anyway. Just give me a standard weedeater.

My old man has one with swappable heads... one for edging, one for regular weed whackin'...

[LeeNetworX]

Originally Posted by OneSickPsycho

Yeah, but could you REALLY edge with that thing?

He's used it and it works.

[Papa_Complex]

Still have your premix? Napalm the grass. Works wonders on tent caterpillars and makes a rather satisfying little mushroom cloud.

[Particle Man]

Originally Posted by Papa_Complex

Still have your premix? Napalm the grass. Works wonders on tent caterpillars and makes a rather satisfying little mushroom cloud.

The man has a point...

[Cutty72]

Originally Posted by dubbs

I bought a nice Echo 2 stroke, has diff attachments for blowers, limb cutters, n stuff like that, weed whacker works great, I barely need to get it passed idle.

For those that have 4 strokes.. How do you edge with them? I typically hold it upside down, wouldn't it be like doing a wheelie for your weed whacker's motor? lol

A lot of them now have rotating ends, so you just turn it 90* to edge. I don't edge, so I don't care.

Originally Posted by LeeNetworX

Friend next door just bought one of these about a month ago and loves it. While it's tempting, I just don't think it would cut it for my lawn; we have too much grass/weeds at the bottom that I can't use the mower to reach. I think it would take 2 battery changes.

http://www.homedepot.com/Outdoors-Ou...atalogId=10053

I had a 2 stroke ryobi, lasted 3 years working great, then started pissing gas everywhere. I bought it for $90, would cost me $60 to get the parts to fix it. So, I spent $80 on a battery one. Came with 2 batteries, takes me 3 to do my lawn. It's nice cause it starts every time, but it's not real powerful and is slow. For someone in town with 2 trees to trim around, it would be fine. On my acre lot, it's lacking.

[LeeNetworX]

Originally Posted by Cutty72

I had a 2 stroke ryobi, lasted 3 years working great, then started pissing gas everywhere. I bought it for $90, would cost me $60 to get the parts to fix it. So, I spent $80 on a battery one. Came with 2 batteries, takes me 3 to do my lawn. It's nice cause it starts every time, but it's not real powerful and is slow. For someone in town with 2 trees to trim around, it would be fine. On my acre lot, it's lacking.

That definitely wouldn't work for me, then.

[OneSickPsycho]

Originally Posted by LeeNetworX

That definitely wouldn't work for me, then.

I don't have a lot to trim, but the grass/weeds here are so damn thick I'd worry about the lack of power.... especially when edging.