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Old 09-20-2008, 03:30 PM   #1
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The string trimmer is dead to me.

The string trimmer, as useful household equipment, is dead to me. As a thing I will buy, own, operate. Never again. They are a fraud and *never* correctly operate, even out of the box.

If they actually do start, they will fail to start on the second occasion they are needed. If they manage to stay running, they will operate until the first amount of string is gone, and then no amount of coaxing will get string correctly feeding. They are designed specifically to hit you in the face and over your entire body, painfully, with flying gravel, stones, muck, and weeds. They leak fuel, which is custom mixed for their little needs, because of their shitty little fuel delivery system. They cost too much and their function can be performed with better accuracy and zero fuel, with hand-held equipment.

Dead to me. Dead.
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Old 09-20-2008, 05:04 PM   #2
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electric is what you need. electric.
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Old 09-20-2008, 05:05 PM   #3
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Old 09-20-2008, 05:16 PM   #4
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I broke down and bought an edger. The (ELECTRIC) string trimmer is still great for trimming around the edges of walls & stuff where you can't get the mower, but the sidewalk just ran through too much string.
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Old 09-20-2008, 05:26 PM   #5
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the sidewalk just ran through too much string.
you're supposed to trim the grass, not the sidewalk
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Old 09-20-2008, 05:27 PM   #6
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Ahh,, fence in yer yard and get some goats !!!
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Old 09-20-2008, 05:40 PM   #7
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you get what you pay for and when it comes to string trimmers you really don't want to pay what you have to, even if you're doing it for money. Figure on spending at least $400. for a good trimmer.
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Old 09-20-2008, 05:44 PM   #8
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right. if you have several acres to trim.
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Old 09-20-2008, 07:15 PM   #9
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I put my last one out for trashman. Useless crap, besides killing your back.
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Old 09-20-2008, 07:18 PM   #10
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Is this the same thing as a weed whacker?
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Old 09-20-2008, 07:27 PM   #11
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yup
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Old 09-20-2008, 08:10 PM   #12
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Get ypu one of these Bad boys , No more fule/oil mixing , Lots of goodys that fit on the end , oh and it is WAAAAYY Bad ass !!
Takes a sec for it to wind up But then DAMN !!!!!!
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Old 09-20-2008, 08:12 PM   #13
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I have been working my way through the various cutting head options. I'm now on the little plastic toothy blades. Forget the Gator thing...the precut trimmer bits fly off too easy. Self feed original heads are for shit, and even if they work, are impossible to rewind.
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Old 09-20-2008, 08:37 PM   #14
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you're supposed to trim the grass, not the sidewalk
Dammit!!! Couldn't you have told me that about 10 years ago??
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Old 09-20-2008, 08:44 PM   #15
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Get ypu one of these Bad boys , No more fule/oil mixing , Lots of goodys that fit on the end , oh and it is WAAAAYY Bad ass !!
Takes a sec for it to wind up But then DAMN !!!!!!
Link?
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