Battery powered Grass Hog
I found this used battery
powered weed eater today for 40 bucks at a yard sale.
The guy included an extra
battery, which just happens to be the same size as my old Black and
Decker drill, which I
still have 2 good batteries for.
Stay tuned for a full review
on how well this so called "Grass Hog" lives up to its name.
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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It's been a while since I've used one of these (no garden anymore
).
They are quite handy for trimming edges and other places your mower won't reach. But the plastic wire that does the cutting has the tendency to break when it hits something really solid. The wire comes out of a spool from which you van easily spool out a new piece if it breaks off. Some models even spool it out automatically.
But I think I'd have used a steel wire. That might scratch things, though.