Sunday, August 14, 2016
Household hint
On my VERY small front yard (40 x 20), an electric weedwacker (string-trimmer) does the whole job in 5 minutes. Faster and a lot less muscle strain than the manual mower, and more effective. Swing it back and forth at a steady height and walk slowly forward. The forward motion is slower than the push mower, but the swath is 4 feet wide. The manual mower needs about 20 overlapping rows, while the weedwacker needs only 5 rows.
Wish I'd figured this out a long time ago.
After a bit of thinking... Why is it more effective? It's more than just the width. The mower has wheels on both ends. It cuts the grass between the wheels and tramples the grass under the wheels. Those lines don't get cut properly. The weedwacker cuts a wide swath, and then my feet trample small areas that were ALREADY CUT.
Labels: coot-proofing, Zero Problems
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