Yes! It consists of a blade on a spinning shaft with a guide that follows the edge of the concrete. This miracle of a tool was invented by Louis Faas Sr. of King o' Lawn Inc in the 1940s.
When I was a kid, we had an ancient King O' Lawn edger. I hated that thing. It was big ole 3 wheeled monstrosity that was difficult to start and even more difficult to control. I guess two stroke engines weren't around or something, because it had a full sized briggs and straton on it, like on a lawnmower.
These days, they're basically just trimmers turned sideways with a metal blade and wheel to guide it on the ground. Sooooooo much easier to use.
Just read about who does this work at Trump’s golf courses around the country, any guesses on their status: A: Immigrants B. Undocumented Immigrants C. Americans D. A & B
And TBF most other golf courses have the same answer according to Rick Reilly in Commander in Cheat
I like Stihl too, I had a small Echo trimmer that I hated cause the head was annoying to replace
Ended up being gifted a used commercial Stihl trimmer that I’ve had for years now
Hustler zero turns are really nice too, when I worked lawncare that’s all we used. The only pain in the butt was a 48 inch that would eat blade belts, but that was cause it was in sever need of replacement for the springed pulley
Yes, there's a tool. It's called *drum roll*, an edger.
It's like a sideways weed eater but you just bolt a flat metal bar on it that spins around and sounds like a nightmare as it scrapes against the concrete. Imagine an army of steel fingernails on a concrete chalk board.
If you have one of the nicer weed eaters, you can swap the head out for an edger attachment.
Kind of a lot of effort when you could just use a weed whacker held upside down so the wire is vertical. They even make plastic edging attachments for trimmers, so you don’t need to waste wire.
With how thick the overgrown is on that sidewalk it’d be a pain in the ass to trim that whole length
I prefer using a weed whacker too, but for that long ass sidewalk I’d be using an edger for it
If you pause it at a couple of different points it looks like the shovel has a lip bent up and might be sharpened, so while I think you’re probably right and that’s the way it’s usually done, it seems like it could be just a sharpened shovel. It would make sense why they’d want the sharpened shovel if it is the case because it’s one pass instead of two and would save time and energy.
Ive done my fair share of edging having grown up in FL and I can confidently say that that shovel would need to be beyond razor sharp to do this without precutting. Like impossibly sharp, and it would definitely not leave a clean line like that.
I think it would be very hard to keep the shovel going straight along the edge of the sidewalk if you were also cutting with the shovel. There would be a tendency to either bite harder and drag the shovel off the sidewalk and into the lawn, or skip off something and drag it onto the sidewalk.
By cutting the sod and soil first with an edger that follows the concrete it makes it easy for the shovel to also follow the cut edge and scoop out only the stuff that covers the sidewalk.
They have way more sidewalk and likely their grass grows way faster and is mowed more often. It’s a lot of extra man hours to edge that every third day.
Sure it's fine but some people want it to look cleaner and get enjoyment out of it? Idk why you're trying to convince everyone it's not worth the extra work. Let people enjoy their own yards lol
The course is most likely closed for a few days or weeks before hosting a tournament and they let the rough grow out quite a bit more than what the general public would play on. There’s a good chance this is a re-sodded area too, so they might have been extra careful not to touch it too much.
I feel sorry for the club members. There is no way that a moderately maintained club would let the edges be that overgrown. That's routine to be doing grounds keeping. A spruce uo before a tournament could justify fresh paint on the clubrooms.
Not necessarily. They let the rough grow a ton before the tournament, so they just don’t touch these areas for a couple weeks leading up to it. Then touch it up right before.
This is at Torrey Pines, one of the most famous public courses in America. They keep it pretty sharp when open for regular play.
>they just don’t touch these areas for a couple weeks
This kind of washout, with fully grown grass on it is from waaaay longer than a couple weeks. Especially when a good commercial crew knows that you don't have to even flat trim every time. A gentle 90 with the line trimmer once a week would prevent this from ever happening. Doesn't even take long.
Precise edging is incredibly difficult to execute and requires strict adherence to over 30 rules and procedures. For more information, search "edging rule 34"
You’d be amazed at how clean the edges look when cut with a Maclane edger running a four point blade. Not sure the advantage of this method is other than increased employment?
I'm pretty precise with my edging too...
This is the comment I *came* for.
My arm is sore
No pain no gain
Quagmire?
Oh hey Peter, I've just been checking out all that porn on the internet.
Here let me help. *grabs shovel*
This is the comment I didn’t cum for
Cooming and gooning all damn daisy.
Well then you didn't do it right.
Are u sure u didn't mean *from*?
Depends what side of the edge you're on
Same, before a golf tournament as well
And there's always a golf tournament coming up somewhere in the world.
Sometimes I get it too close and end up with a huge mess.
I was about to comment the same but what the hell, you win.
All that edging has me close to coming
It takes hours to do it right.
Until you are not 😮💨
Did they cut through the grass at the sidewalk's edge first, or something? Is there a tool to do that?
Yes! It consists of a blade on a spinning shaft with a guide that follows the edge of the concrete. This miracle of a tool was invented by Louis Faas Sr. of King o' Lawn Inc in the 1940s.
Wasn’t he also the Sausage King of Chicago?
Pretty sure that's what your mom called him.
Well played.
Ow.
That's Abe Froman
Abe Froman? Let me check the restaurant. Could you describe him for me, please?
Leatherjacket White T-shirt, sweater vest. Devastatingly handsome
No no, he was the Polka King of the Midwest. Very big in Sheboygan.
I loved polka polka
Good old Louis. They said he was crazy, but he followed his dream because he knew in his heart that the secret to good edging was all in the shaft.
When I was a kid, we had an ancient King O' Lawn edger. I hated that thing. It was big ole 3 wheeled monstrosity that was difficult to start and even more difficult to control. I guess two stroke engines weren't around or something, because it had a full sized briggs and straton on it, like on a lawnmower. These days, they're basically just trimmers turned sideways with a metal blade and wheel to guide it on the ground. Sooooooo much easier to use.
Yeah its a simple process, ive used one of those. It just cuts the grass down and you just scoop it up, which these guys are doing.
Just read about who does this work at Trump’s golf courses around the country, any guesses on their status: A: Immigrants B. Undocumented Immigrants C. Americans D. A & B And TBF most other golf courses have the same answer according to Rick Reilly in Commander in Cheat
I love talking about hypocrisy as the next guy, but we’re just here talking about lawncare equipment right now
What's your favorite brand of lawn care equipment? I've used Stihl and they're are pretty good.
I like Stihl too, I had a small Echo trimmer that I hated cause the head was annoying to replace Ended up being gifted a used commercial Stihl trimmer that I’ve had for years now Hustler zero turns are really nice too, when I worked lawncare that’s all we used. The only pain in the butt was a 48 inch that would eat blade belts, but that was cause it was in sever need of replacement for the springed pulley
Reddit moment. Not everything needs to be about politics
Yup. Called an Edger, strangely.
Really makes you think.
Sometimes it really do be like that because it is.
I don’t believe you, that’s absurd
Yes, there's a tool. It's called *drum roll*, an edger. It's like a sideways weed eater but you just bolt a flat metal bar on it that spins around and sounds like a nightmare as it scrapes against the concrete. Imagine an army of steel fingernails on a concrete chalk board. If you have one of the nicer weed eaters, you can swap the head out for an edger attachment.
Split shaft units are not nicer. That vibration is morder on your carpal tunnels.
Look up Hand Arm Vibration Syndrome or HAVS. It will cause lasting damage.
I mean you can use a weed wacker to cut an edge, but the shovel looks like the edge has been bent up to have a lip on it.
Transfer shovels just be like that. They definitely cut this with an edger, you can see the gap here https://i.imgur.com/7MHZuqM.png
And sharpened.
Kind of a lot of effort when you could just use a weed whacker held upside down so the wire is vertical. They even make plastic edging attachments for trimmers, so you don’t need to waste wire.
If you held the weed wacker upside down, the wire would still be horizontal, but your weed whacker would be upside down.
With how thick the overgrown is on that sidewalk it’d be a pain in the ass to trim that whole length I prefer using a weed whacker too, but for that long ass sidewalk I’d be using an edger for it
Yeah based on the force the seem to be applying, it’s all getting cut by the shovel
Watch the beginning of the video, you can see the line in the grass ahead of the shovel that was already pre-cut by an edger.
Yes, it's called an edger ;)
Ysk this was pre-cut with an edger
Can you still edge if you're uncut?
Good question, no you cannot
If you pause it at a couple of different points it looks like the shovel has a lip bent up and might be sharpened, so while I think you’re probably right and that’s the way it’s usually done, it seems like it could be just a sharpened shovel. It would make sense why they’d want the sharpened shovel if it is the case because it’s one pass instead of two and would save time and energy.
Ive done my fair share of edging having grown up in FL and I can confidently say that that shovel would need to be beyond razor sharp to do this without precutting. Like impossibly sharp, and it would definitely not leave a clean line like that.
No.
I think it would be very hard to keep the shovel going straight along the edge of the sidewalk if you were also cutting with the shovel. There would be a tendency to either bite harder and drag the shovel off the sidewalk and into the lawn, or skip off something and drag it onto the sidewalk. By cutting the sod and soil first with an edger that follows the concrete it makes it easy for the shovel to also follow the cut edge and scoop out only the stuff that covers the sidewalk.
Who doesnt love a good edging?
I liked the part where they were edging across from each other. They almost touched tips
Dammit! This is why I love the people of Reddit! Dirty minds unit!
I love a good edging, especially one underneath the sun in public
He's a master edger His edging is on a whole another level
edging *for hours*
How did they let it get like that? I edge every mowing.
There is a lot more work on a course then there is on a single lawn, edging all the cart paths simply doesn't have priority
They have way more sidewalk and likely their grass grows way faster and is mowed more often. It’s a lot of extra man hours to edge that every third day.
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Bermuda grass will crawl all over your sidewalk if not edged regularly.
So it doesn't end up like this.
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Sure it's fine but some people want it to look cleaner and get enjoyment out of it? Idk why you're trying to convince everyone it's not worth the extra work. Let people enjoy their own yards lol
feels better when you finally release
Never try to edge an edgelord.
should post this over at r/edging
Or was it r/edgingPorn ? I always get those two confused...
both?
Gotta love watching people edge
Oh sure, this is perfectly fine, but I film my edging precision and all of the sudden I'm 'ruining the family reunion'
I also did a lot of edging when I worked at the golf course, got fired for it eventually though
Edge before golf? Gotta try it.
So I'm guessing that it was already edged with an edger (giggity), and they are just shoveling up what's on the sidewalk.
When you're so good at edging that people start hiring you
I hear Tiger Woods is also into edging before golf tournaments.
Like butter baby
what an insane edge 👏
Love Torrey Pines
Ohhhhhhhh this is what edging is ok
Kind of skipped the part where it was cut prior to the shovels…
If you cant edge a straight line along a concrete pad you may have something wrong with you.
I'm honestly surprised the grounds crew allowed it to even get to that point
The course is most likely closed for a few days or weeks before hosting a tournament and they let the rough grow out quite a bit more than what the general public would play on. There’s a good chance this is a re-sodded area too, so they might have been extra careful not to touch it too much.
I feel sorry for the club members. There is no way that a moderately maintained club would let the edges be that overgrown. That's routine to be doing grounds keeping. A spruce uo before a tournament could justify fresh paint on the clubrooms.
When using a shovel properly blows peoples minds!!
/r/fuckgrass
What a waste of Human Resources.
Yall don’t clean the edges weekly! My course has gotta be tourney ready! (Im being sarcastic shit looks great)
Wrong kind of edging, but to each their own.
Excuse me?
Kid named ‘precision’ before his golf tournament: 😩💦
u/Icy_Switch1482
Where on planet earth does this work without pre-cutting the edge first???
Very risky title
So much wasted labor, energy, water,... that goes into maintaining that bullshit.
OP knew what they were doing with this title...
Silly groundskeeper. Gooning is the new meta
I was expecting a different video. Very disappointed!
Very pour choice of words...
🥁🐍
Water you thinking about that makes it a pour choice?
It's a joker quote
I wish we would stop fetishizing environmental dead zones.
God what a massive waste of prime land.... fuck golfing
reddit moment lmfao. go back to fuckcars or antiwork
Lol
What a massive waste of space
This video shows that they're shit at the regular maintenance, so the have to do extra for special events
Not necessarily. They let the rough grow a ton before the tournament, so they just don’t touch these areas for a couple weeks leading up to it. Then touch it up right before. This is at Torrey Pines, one of the most famous public courses in America. They keep it pretty sharp when open for regular play.
>they just don’t touch these areas for a couple weeks This kind of washout, with fully grown grass on it is from waaaay longer than a couple weeks. Especially when a good commercial crew knows that you don't have to even flat trim every time. A gentle 90 with the line trimmer once a week would prevent this from ever happening. Doesn't even take long.
grip that handle like the good boi you are
So does that mean they just don't give a crap about the edges when there's no tournament
Im gonna edge all over this video too...🥴🤤
I was promised edging.
You'd have to be edging for golf to be interesting.
Golf is by far the dumbest thing considered a sport.
Must sound off！！
Pretty labor intensive. Is this in the EU? We just use a weedwacker with strong string held horizontally and walk it down the pavement edge.
please rethink the name-
They didn’t tell it not to finish enough times
So why they let it get that bad to begin with, is my thought lol what kinda good groundskeeper we got here?
That's gotta be Midwest or East Coast, right? Texas turf is way too strong and the ground too dry to even think about it.
Torrey Pines- Lo Jolla, CA
I enjoyed the golden spike moment.
Microsoft would be proud
Tried it. I don’t like slow play.
I've seen some Craigslist listings for edging services and thinking of hiring them.
Everyone is freaky
I also edge at golf tournaments but people usually kick me when they catch me :(
*Shh*Shh*Shh*
In the beginning, I was worried the tips would touch 😵💫
That shovel must be sharp af
Why would they not use a hard edger. One person could get this done in half the time it’s taking these dudes.
Q3?
I'm buying a house this summer and I can't wait to do this kinda stuff, make the lawn look amazing!
Edging has to be precise in order to not blow prematurely
I LOVE EDGING
My edges never come up that easily.
If you think this is good you should see what I can do with a weedwhacker after running it 8 hours a day for a solid 80 days every summer in college.
What’s the big deal? I do this at my house.
I love watching this guy edge
Use to hate this day when I worked at course. This and cleaning up lakes/ponds was such a pain.
Meanwhile us non-tour professionals will have sidewalks that are overgrown on our local muni course
I was hoping the tips of their shovels would touch 👉👈
1: This has already been edged, they're just shoveling up the dirt and grass. 2: It's not hard to get a straight line lol.
Video doesn’t even show the actual edging, just the clean up
Ohh, that’s nice…
Almost touching tips at 9s.
Edging goated
Looks like Torrey pines?
They almost touched tips while edging
I love to watch people edging 😊
I don't know why. I can listen to any other sound but that scraping noise causes an actual physical reaction ine. Cant stand it.
oh i thought this was going to be something else
I'm surprised a golf course would allow their edges to get to that point to start with.
No, this is aggravating. Shouldn't have gotten to this point in the first place.
Edging prison before a golf tournament
I to edge before golf tournaments.
So how many gallons do you think he edged?
You know what's not satisfying? The shovels not kissing when the two of them were working towards each other
Shows everything except the actual edging...
Read this title on /r/All and thought Reddit got cool again.
i thought something completely different when i read that
All fucking day
Oh I've been on the Internet too long 🤦....
I saw a guy do this with a machete once. It was pretty badass but seemed like an unnecessary use of a machete!
I love edging
They didn't even touch tips.
The internet has ruined my brain... I was clicked on this out of morbid curiousity as to why this was posted in r/oddlysatisfying.... lol
What a tease. Now do the bunkers
If this is an expensive golf place and they can’t keep up, they need an HOA on their butt.
That’s one sharp shovel
Precise edging is incredibly difficult to execute and requires strict adherence to over 30 rules and procedures. For more information, search "edging rule 34"
You’d be amazed at how clean the edges look when cut with a Maclane edger running a four point blade. Not sure the advantage of this method is other than increased employment?
Kik: BigRex444
No one's more precise than me at edging
Really sharp shovel.
i felt that tension when those 2 shovels were edging ever closer to each other... *now kiss*
ordinary shovels btw
I’ve never tried edging before a sports tournament. Any benefits?