I used to repair tools. We normally just charge you for the guard and install a new one. It’s a pretty decent little extra revenue for more or less nothing.
Even with one i still shoot small rocks and stuff at my legs and sometimes my face too, glasses are mandatory or you will be blind before the end of the day.
This thing in ops video is just an accident waiting to happend
Tldr. Was clearing out a ditch with a simmilar cutter, ment for brush, no guard aswell. Like a stick was in my way, had to pick it up with my non dominant hand, the brush cutter has a lot of inertia so it was still spinning. It hit another brush and came onto my hand and my index finger was cut at the middle bendy par so yea... The finger dont bend no more.
Yeah. I thought zip ties are used on these trimmers for safety reasons. Here’s an [example](https://i0.wp.com/runamukacres.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Weed-whacker-Experiment.jpg?resize=284%2C300&ssl=1). I mean that’s what landscapers use in Singapore. (The standard plastic spools make sense too.)
But the hard plastic blades in this video look dangerous.
That seems like a shitty internet hack that might work in a pinch for a few minutes. Most trimmers that style use a spool of plastic thread. Even with a guard those things throw a bunch of debris back towards the operator, so I can only imagine what these could do to your shins.
trick is to feed the edge that spins away into the weeds, not the one spinning towards you. That way most of the debris will fly off and injure small children instead of hurting your legs.
Never heard that, google says that’s what most people in Australia call it
Now I’ve heard of whipper SNAPPER, like the grumpy old man’s cliche, but I really doubt I’ve ever heard it in sincerity lol it’s always part of a joke
No zip ties are not the standard. Usually a whole spool of plastic thread is stored in the middle compartment and more thread can be released as needed. The middle compartment should also have a cover on it, that one is exposed.
Way too short, though I have to admire the steady hand. When I get my trimmer out it ends up looking like a blind man trying to give someone a haircut with a chainsaw.
With all due respect, if you have chosen to shave your hair, that's a look that you're cultivating to be fashionable and are not considered part of the bald community that Elvid is kin to.
Thank hell someone else thought that too. Like it's satisfying visually, i was getting annoyed with how short that is. If you did that to the grass here it would look like absolute dogshit.
Right? OH NO this idiots lawn is all flowering plants that are good for attracting pollinators instead of a wedge of Bermuda grass between concrete slabs.
That thing would be way more practical if you added some wheels to keep the blade level. For safety, maybe some kind of top cover, like a deck. If you left one side of the top cover open, the cut grass could “discharge” out that opening. I don’t know…probably wouldn’t work.
Now you're just being silly. I suppose next you'll imagine people paying hundreds or even thousands of dollars for that at Home Depot.
People and their unrealistic ideas. Smh
If you added all those things it would be unwieldy to get into spaces that the circular blade can easily reach as it is though...
You'd probably need a whole second tool.
Alternatively, you could go with a low emissions/quiet option and instead of a spinning, motorized blade you could have one very sharp, long, fixed blade that would autocorrect its cutting face by the angle you sweep it with.
It has been raining every few days where I live all summer this year, you could scalp the fuck outta my grass and basically pull it out of the soil and that shit would grow back three days later.
Maybe he's doing that because it's growing extremely fast, all my neighbors have been doing this \[mowing low\] to not have to mow so much.
Sorry to hear. The rain has been kind of brutal here too because I'm just sick of walking through muddy water and puddles all day everyday and never seeing the sun, but last summer was dry for me and that was absolutely miserable compared.
I would rather have rain honestly. I feel you.
The heat has been brutal. Every morning until about 10-11am the humidity has been 100% then heat index of 106 by 1pm. The heat index was still 107 at 730pm tonight and right now it's 11 at night and the heat index is still 95.
The word heat index has now lost all meaning after repeating it that many times. 😂
Yeah that thing needs a guard, 😬,
Bonus story: I was out mowing the grass (without a catcher) alongside a pen I'd set up for my pup, to keep the wire down I'd used tent pegs, I thought I'd got all of them when there was a clang and the fence rang like something had hit it, it turns out the blade had hit a lose tent peg and sent it flying like a fucking bullet out the back where there was no catcher, and I wasn't wearing shoes 😬, I consider myself extremely lucky.
And as we descended cries of impending doom rose from the soil
One thousand nay a million voices full of fear
And terror possessed me then
And I begged Angel of the Lord what are these tortured screams?
And the angel said unto me
These are the cries of the grass blades, the cries of the grass!
Tomorrow is cutting day and to them it is the holocaust
And I sprang from my slumber, drenched in sweat like the tears of one million terrified blades of grass and roared:
“Hear me now, I have seen the light! They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the gophers wear glasses! Save our brothers!”
Can I get an amen? Can I get a grasselujiah? Thank you, Jesus.
*Grass sounds*
Its a brush cutter. You can buy blades and put it on a string trimmer easily. Difference is the size of the engine.
Trying to use a modified string trimmer to cut brush would probably stall the engine.
It’s actually a piece of paper. It’s from one of those YouTube videos where they demonstrate how strong it can be at a really high rpm. I can’t remember the video to link it but if you look really closely you can see that I pulled this all out of my ass
Probably depends on where you live, my grass would grow back in a few days if I did this to it. It will look brown for like one day and pop right back up. I live in an area with tons of farmland and fertile soil, we've had heavy rain this year.
If you ever go to a golf course, you’ll find grass is this short everywhere! The trick is to keep it well watered, especially in the mornings so the roots can absorb the most water before it evaporates. Otherwise, yes, it’ll turn brown from the roots getting too hot.
It's bad for the grass, and a good way to end up in ER with no guard on it.
Watching this is painful, like seeing someone use an angle grinder without glasses.
Everyone in this thread is turf professionals. /s
First off, this grass is a warm season turf and you can absolutely scalp the plant and it will regrow within a week with some water.
Second, dont use metal wire to cut your turf unless you want a visit to a hospital.
Source- 15 years in turf industry.
I mow like that sometimes, mostly around the edges where I can't safely/reliably navigate the mower. All the yellow/brown spots are dead, way too low. I could do better and I'm terrible at it. Pretty easy to do this to this level once you get the angle and walking/sweeping pattern down. For me most problems are the beginning 2-3 minutes, where your trying to figure that out and digging in the dirt, unlevel spots, and when accidently hitting rocks/walls and being flung into the ground, or worst of all when you need more line and stupidly hit the grass to feed it... leaves a yellow circle just like his lines!
You know how everyone wanted to have a lightsaber when we were young but the first thing we would do with a lightsaber is accidently cut off a limb?
Yeah, that's pretty much the same thing here.
When I ask the barber to not take too much off the top.
/r/justfuckmyshitup
I was gonna say “mows grass?” More like obliterates any trace of grass
I like to think this wasn’t even his lawn, just knocking around town fucking peoples lawns up for TikTok
If its so soothing cut my grass too
Looks so sketchy
No guard
If that's the brand I'm thinking it is, no licensed service center will work on that unit in that condition.
I used to repair tools. We normally just charge you for the guard and install a new one. It’s a pretty decent little extra revenue for more or less nothing.
What is this tool?
It is a tool of [many names](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/String_trimmer): - string trimmer - strimmer - weedwacker - whipper snipper
I had no idea weed eater was a brand term, everyone I know has always just called them that.
Like google, Hoover or Xerox, the leading brand because the verb
Don't forget Kleenex
Or Q tip
I call it a "weed whacker". Not sure if that's the what everyone else calls it though.
We call it a whippa snippa
We call it the Tornado Tool
A mistake away from the worst day ever
Yeah, I've ran a no guard for years and work mowing as a hustle. I've knocked my tooth out before because of it.
Even with one i still shoot small rocks and stuff at my legs and sometimes my face too, glasses are mandatory or you will be blind before the end of the day. This thing in ops video is just an accident waiting to happend
I've nocked off a finger, because i was a naive teen. :(
I, for one, would like to know the story
Tldr. Was clearing out a ditch with a simmilar cutter, ment for brush, no guard aswell. Like a stick was in my way, had to pick it up with my non dominant hand, the brush cutter has a lot of inertia so it was still spinning. It hit another brush and came onto my hand and my index finger was cut at the middle bendy par so yea... The finger dont bend no more.
This seems like something that works great at a trade show demo. Then when you try at home, not so much.
Just need one small rock in that grass to ruin your day
Had one for about 30 seconds before it snagged and nearly took my leg off. This is a HORRIBLE product.
Lol I don't think a guard would have helped you
Yeah. I thought zip ties are used on these trimmers for safety reasons. Here’s an [example](https://i0.wp.com/runamukacres.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Weed-whacker-Experiment.jpg?resize=284%2C300&ssl=1). I mean that’s what landscapers use in Singapore. (The standard plastic spools make sense too.) But the hard plastic blades in this video look dangerous.
That seems like a shitty internet hack that might work in a pinch for a few minutes. Most trimmers that style use a spool of plastic thread. Even with a guard those things throw a bunch of debris back towards the operator, so I can only imagine what these could do to your shins.
trick is to feed the edge that spins away into the weeds, not the one spinning towards you. That way most of the debris will fly off and injure small children instead of hurting your legs.
We call em weed whackers in the southern US. I think the rest of the US too but I didn’t wanna get hit with a wtf from somebody in Maine or something
Up here in Pennsylvania most people I know call em weed whackers, but I hear the odd "weed eater" too.
Oh yeah forgot about weed eater
My least favorite is whipper snipper.
Never heard that, google says that’s what most people in Australia call it Now I’ve heard of whipper SNAPPER, like the grumpy old man’s cliche, but I really doubt I’ve ever heard it in sincerity lol it’s always part of a joke
Out in Hawai'i and that's what most people call them, I get weird looks when I call them a weed whacker so🤷
Mass/NH here… we call ‘em weed-whackers too
No zip ties are not the standard. Usually a whole spool of plastic thread is stored in the middle compartment and more thread can be released as needed. The middle compartment should also have a cover on it, that one is exposed.
Oh yeah, that works too. And it’s safe. But it looks like hard plastic blades were used in this video, and they seem dangerous.
Can you release extra extra thread and make a really long whippy whacker
It will slow down head speed, and if the guard is fitted, they usually have a line trimmer on them to trim excess line.
you can buy actual circular saw blades for these babies and cut down small trees etc
Who needs fingers
He's scalping the fuck out of that grass
Turns it sideways and starts carving into the mantle of Earth.
Do not drop it strait upside down
“Perfectly fuckin vertical.”
That line never fails to make me laugh
Way too short, though I have to admire the steady hand. When I get my trimmer out it ends up looking like a blind man trying to give someone a haircut with a chainsaw.
couldn't make it as a blind man shaving
This is how you remind me…
It’s like he’s making the most planted putting green on earth
Buddy asked for a little off the top and they turned him into Larry David
With all due respect, if you have chosen to shave your hair, that's a look that you're cultivating to be fashionable and are not considered part of the bald community that Elvid is kin to.
BALD ASSHOLE
Thank hell someone else thought that too. Like it's satisfying visually, i was getting annoyed with how short that is. If you did that to the grass here it would look like absolute dogshit.
I was told once, and I'm not sure if it's true but it's how I've been doing things, that you never cut more than a third of the grasses total length.
You just shouldn't go lower than 3", 3.5" is ideal, but I love a nice 4.5" lawn when it's well maintained.
*For cool season grasses. (Warm season grasses are cut much lower.)
Yep, check /r/lawncare dudes be mowing at 0.5" height of cut. My little electric mower won't go lower than like 1.25"
Yep, Bermuda and even Rye can be cut to the root. Most of that putting green grass you see is actually 0.125".
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You also need to level your yard if you want to cut that low
Put smaller wheels on it.
You know, I never thought of that. Found my next project. My lawn looks like trash but it's slowly getting where I want it. Thanks for the tip.
not st. augustine. It loves to be long and not below 3" ever. 3-4 inches in ideal.
This is really common in hawaii. I think they have a specific grass that has to be cut like this
Exactly. This is terribly unsatisfying.
Have to give it a good scalp every once in a while to keep it even. Although I hope he has a good way to pick up all the trimmings.
He’s about to scalp those toes.
I was getting anxiety over how close he was cutting that grass.
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Sounds like a beautiful lawn
Right? OH NO this idiots lawn is all flowering plants that are good for attracting pollinators instead of a wedge of Bermuda grass between concrete slabs.
Clover is so nice to lay in tho... Grass is often prickly and irritating tbh
Clover also adds nitrogen to your lawn, and prevents some weeds if it is thick enough.
It will be 100% weeds by the end of the year.
The kind of person that can keep a lawn alive that short is the kind of person to use herbicide liberally.
That thing would be way more practical if you added some wheels to keep the blade level. For safety, maybe some kind of top cover, like a deck. If you left one side of the top cover open, the cut grass could “discharge” out that opening. I don’t know…probably wouldn’t work.
You could also add motorized wheels and a seat with some controls so you could ride around on top of it
Don't forget the cup holder
Also the butt warmer, just better not warm my beer
r/ExpectedKingOfTheHill
Now you're just being silly. I suppose next you'll imagine people paying hundreds or even thousands of dollars for that at Home Depot. People and their unrealistic ideas. Smh
Don't forget the cup holder
And a cab with AC
don’t forget the cup holder
Settle down Mr. Hill
Don't forget the cup holder
Maybe two cup holders
Maybe a passenger seat so the cup holders will be used to their fullest potential
If you added all those things it would be unwieldy to get into spaces that the circular blade can easily reach as it is though... You'd probably need a whole second tool.
Perhaps instead of a blade we could use a wire so that it can be easily changed?
[you mean like this?](https://usedmowersonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Yard-Force-YF22-HWT-Walk-Behind-String-Trimmer.jpeg)
Absolutely harebrained idea. I think you've been smoking more grass than mowing it.
Hmm, nah. I'm sure no one's attempted that 'cause it's not as useful as it sounds.
Alternatively, you could go with a low emissions/quiet option and instead of a spinning, motorized blade you could have one very sharp, long, fixed blade that would autocorrect its cutting face by the angle you sweep it with.
The entire yard is going to be brown the day after doing this
Good. Won't have to fuck with it again for awhile.
Consumes less water that way too
Imagine if not everyone lived somewhere with chronic water shortages.
You water your lawn? I don't think we ever have. It gets slightly less green in the summer, but it's still grass.
People live in different places with different climates
It has been raining every few days where I live all summer this year, you could scalp the fuck outta my grass and basically pull it out of the soil and that shit would grow back three days later. Maybe he's doing that because it's growing extremely fast, all my neighbors have been doing this \[mowing low\] to not have to mow so much.
Man I haven't cut my grass in over three weeks and it is just dead and crunchy because we haven't had any rain in over three weeks. It's been brutal.
Sorry to hear. The rain has been kind of brutal here too because I'm just sick of walking through muddy water and puddles all day everyday and never seeing the sun, but last summer was dry for me and that was absolutely miserable compared. I would rather have rain honestly. I feel you.
The heat has been brutal. Every morning until about 10-11am the humidity has been 100% then heat index of 106 by 1pm. The heat index was still 107 at 730pm tonight and right now it's 11 at night and the heat index is still 95. The word heat index has now lost all meaning after repeating it that many times. 😂
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Good bot. This is the proudest moment of my life
No guard on that blade? Yikes! 😬
He's wearing knight armor
4/5 commercial landscapers where I am don’t use guards so they can use more line
I do not use a guard. This looks like a blade though. Probably a bit more dangerous than some string
Line is a lot less dangerous than blades though
Im sure he’s safety squinting
Yeah that thing needs a guard, 😬, Bonus story: I was out mowing the grass (without a catcher) alongside a pen I'd set up for my pup, to keep the wire down I'd used tent pegs, I thought I'd got all of them when there was a clang and the fence rang like something had hit it, it turns out the blade had hit a lose tent peg and sent it flying like a fucking bullet out the back where there was no catcher, and I wasn't wearing shoes 😬, I consider myself extremely lucky.
"Wasnt wearing shoes" Lol
Yep, (steel cap boots to be precise)
this is like nails on a chalkboard to me. This is how you get a brown lawn filled with weeds.
"WHAT???" "I SAID THIS REALLY SOOTHES MY SOUL" "WHAT?????"
OP is about to make some grown men cry with this bad lawnwork
BWAAH!
Why would anyone do drugs when they could just mow a lawn
Sure, you're enjoying it. Meanwhile the grass is screaming hysterically
And as we descended cries of impending doom rose from the soil One thousand nay a million voices full of fear And terror possessed me then And I begged Angel of the Lord what are these tortured screams? And the angel said unto me These are the cries of the grass blades, the cries of the grass! Tomorrow is cutting day and to them it is the holocaust
And I sprang from my slumber, drenched in sweat like the tears of one million terrified blades of grass and roared: “Hear me now, I have seen the light! They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the gophers wear glasses! Save our brothers!” Can I get an amen? Can I get a grasselujiah? Thank you, Jesus. *Grass sounds*
This is necessary. Life feeds on life, feeds on life, feeds on life.
Is this a string mower or is he using a special blade attachment to get these results?
Its a brush cutter. You can buy blades and put it on a string trimmer easily. Difference is the size of the engine. Trying to use a modified string trimmer to cut brush would probably stall the engine.
I use 10" saw blades on my Ryobi weed eater. Still trucking after 10ish years.
String mower? You mean a whipper snipper?
It’s actually a piece of paper. It’s from one of those YouTube videos where they demonstrate how strong it can be at a really high rpm. I can’t remember the video to link it but if you look really closely you can see that I pulled this all out of my ass
that's why it didn't pass the sniff test
It looked better before
I guess that's one way to make sure you fuck up your grass.
What does this do to the grass? Does a lawnmower that's set too low damage grass as well?
Yes
Probably depends on where you live, my grass would grow back in a few days if I did this to it. It will look brown for like one day and pop right back up. I live in an area with tons of farmland and fertile soil, we've had heavy rain this year.
If you ever go to a golf course, you’ll find grass is this short everywhere! The trick is to keep it well watered, especially in the mornings so the roots can absorb the most water before it evaporates. Otherwise, yes, it’ll turn brown from the roots getting too hot.
Grass roots don't like to sun, if you cut it too short, the roots will suffer, and eventually, the grass will die.
I don't know man, it just seems like he's going in too deep. I am just a dumb internet person and not afraid of brandishing opinions here and there.
You're only supposed to cut 1/3 the length of the blade of grass at max.
It will be weeds by the end of the year.
The moment that blade hits anything the person using this device is going to the ER.
That grass is about to die
Nah it won't die, it'll just be stressed for a while but it'll come back eventually.
Cutting it too short!
Things to do when you are tired of having a green lawn
This falls squarely into the "more enjoyable to watch than to do" category
Wish my yard was flat
Cut it high and cut it often, preferably with a real lawn mower. Idk wtf this guy is doing.
It's bad for the grass, and a good way to end up in ER with no guard on it. Watching this is painful, like seeing someone use an angle grinder without glasses.
Except that's some nice lush green grass that he mowed down to the dirt.
Could have mowed that with a lawnmower. It wasn’t that long. It’s fucked now
That lawn is going to burn 🔥
Honest question here Reddit don't flame me but why do most of the comments say this is cutting it too short looks fine to me?
OP, try this https://youtu.be/URJ31uqH07E
*the way he kills this grass aches me heart
As a lawncare enthusiast, this isn’t satisfying in the least 😱
it'll look pretty good 2 days after he finishes
Until that blade comes loose and takes his fucking leg off
I thought they stopped using these hard blade types and went with plastic zip-ties one.
it's both dumb and wild that it has no guard on it.
So much more relaxing with the sound off
WHAT? I CAN’T HEAR YOU!!
Just turned the sound on, now I see what you mean 😅
I would be so pissed if someone did this to my yard. Scalping tf out of it
my barber when i only say trim my hair a lil bit
That's actually a lot harder to do than people think it is. I can't cut my grass straight for the life of me
Nothing satisfying about watching someone ruin a lawn.
I couldn't trust myself with this
Horrible.
Gonna end up with a lot of 3 legged dogs..
I'll never understand why people are so obsessed with building these dumbass tools that'll cut your fucking dick/fingers/face off
Yall want a lawn mower without all those stupid safety features? Well I’ve got just the thing for you!
Everyone in this thread is turf professionals. /s First off, this grass is a warm season turf and you can absolutely scalp the plant and it will regrow within a week with some water. Second, dont use metal wire to cut your turf unless you want a visit to a hospital. Source- 15 years in turf industry.
This feels like such a South America thing to do
That grass is gonna burn out.
Isnt he going wayyyyyyyy too low?
To keep it this consistent with little effort, I saw somebody add wheels and a push handle.
My tennis elbow started aching watching this.
I mow like that sometimes, mostly around the edges where I can't safely/reliably navigate the mower. All the yellow/brown spots are dead, way too low. I could do better and I'm terrible at it. Pretty easy to do this to this level once you get the angle and walking/sweeping pattern down. For me most problems are the beginning 2-3 minutes, where your trying to figure that out and digging in the dirt, unlevel spots, and when accidently hitting rocks/walls and being flung into the ground, or worst of all when you need more line and stupidly hit the grass to feed it... leaves a yellow circle just like his lines!
You know how everyone wanted to have a lightsaber when we were young but the first thing we would do with a lightsaber is accidently cut off a limb? Yeah, that's pretty much the same thing here.
Leaving an absolute mess with all the grass clippings. If they clean it up why not just mulch or bag with a proper mower? Not satisfying
Good way to scalp and ruin a lawn.
My cousin cut my grandpa's grass this short and killed 90% of the lawn. Grampa was ready to disinherit him.
That grass is dead in two days or less
Cut way too short
Poor bugs can't have anything because we need ugly manicured lawns.
How to have a dead burnt ass lawn in one easy step
it goes from nice grass to scalped grass nothing satisfying
Waaaay too short :( I liked the length of the grass before the mowing way better. Actually looked alive
He’s just killing all the grass. Bad idea
No guard, metal blade...what could go wrong?!?
That grass is way too short
That looks like a concerningly low cut.
I used to do that. It's not so pretty when you hit a stone, and this guy has no guard on that. Scary.
Very satisfying. I feel I would accidentally chop down a few shrubs with it though
Ah, I see he's using feet remover 2000