Pics of trimmer edge

[trimmer]

I just bought a digital camera and wanted to show of my trimmer edge since we have had countless arguments.

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[Evan528]

Amen Trimmer!!!!! I own a edger and barly even use it exept on new accounts to get the "groove" set. I feel that I can edge faster and do just as good of a job with a trimmer. Some taller edges must be done with a trimmer anyway.....I like to utilize my equipment to the fullest instead of constantly running back to the truck to switch machines! Toughest part is just teaching the employees to edge correctly with the trimmer!

[Grass_Slayer]

that is so awesome!!! i havent gotten that good with the trimmer yet but i'm workin on it. those lines are awesome, and so straight!!!!!!

[Tony Harrell]

That closeup photo looks really good. What kind of grass is that and how high are you cutting it? I used to live down there and it sure don't look like bahia to me! That driveway looks like an opportunity to make some pressure wash money (if you have the time). Just do a small area to show the difference.

[awm]

that my friend is real good clean wk. if i could do that w a trimmer ,i wouldnt ever use an edger.. been doing this 30 yrs ,but cant do that.

[CompleteLawn Service]

Whats's an edger?????:D Out west here all edging is done with string trimmers. I havent seen an edger on any LCO's trucks in a long time. If you guy's take your edger's off your trucks put them in the garage or garbage can,you'll be edging like those photos in about 3 months.

Less gas, less motors, less maintance,more room = more money!

[trimmer]

Tony,

The grass in the both of the pictures is St. Augustine cut at 3.5", I go to 3.75 every so often on the first pic during the summer. I used to offer preasure cleaning but someone stole it back around christmas, sure do miss that thing and it made me some quick easy cash. Any way I think that drive way would be to big to do with a wand.

[SJR Lawncare]

I only edge with my trimmer too. I cant see wasting time with an edger if you can do a nice job with a string trimmer.

Good Job!

[Toroguy]

Very nice job trimmer!

[awm]

well im lucky in cards an lucky in love also ,so guess u cant have everything:D

[greenflag]

Bravo Trimmer!

Those edges look great! There are some LCOs around here that edge with a trimmer, but you notice it at 30mph when you go by.

I can edge ok with a trimmer, but I am slow. (lack of practice I guess)

I can edge faster than I can walk. At 6'7" that is WFO! :D

Maybe I can practice some in the off season, & save money on blades.

Garry

[LAWNGODFATHER]

LIAR you used an edger.;) J/K

Like many have said, it can be done if you practice.

I think it can look better than with an edger.

[Kent Lawns]

No question a trimmer does a cleaner job.

But it's a learned technique, that the average $10/hr employee will not get the hang of properly.

[65hoss]

I've said this before, but trimming is an art form. Nice work.

The edges a good trimmer man can put out do look better than an edger. It is "impossible" to teach a helper to do it. They need lots of practice and you can't afford to let them tear things up. Thus the reason we use stick edgers. Faster and easier to teach. A lot less screw ups.

[morturf]

Wish you could give lessons to the guys around here. Attached is actually a pretty good edge for the guys here. I can't seem to convince them 45 degrees won't work.

[morturf]

One more just for fun.......:D

[morturf]

oops....damn fingers.....:eek:

[Wayward]

Never heard of the 45° technique ;) I like a nice clean knife edge between the grass and walk. I would also hit those weeds in the cracks:dizzy:

[Tony Harrell]

Boy, that grass looks healthy! btw-I use a split boom trimmer, and I turn the trimmer part upside down while the engine and controls are in the normal position. Be careful though, it throws stuff around pretty good if you get the string in the groove. It works great other than that.

[Doc Pete]

I must agree most of the time I use a trimmer for edging. However, on commercial sidewalks, the edger looks much better. If you trim the edge of sidewalks, the string enlarges the sides, and after a while you have a large 1" or more dirt area on either side. The edger does do this. Plus, I find a good stick edger is faster in this appication, too.
Pete

[cowman66]

wow what a nice yard and good edging! haha love the 45 degree stuff

[MATTHEW]

Right about that gap thing. The reason that a trimmer edge looks better is that it is cutting the grass, where a stick edger is slicing the dirt. Even a sharpened blade cannot get the clean cut look.

To keep that perfect clean cut, though, you tend to pull the edge away from the turf. The last pic looked like it had a gap.

[fprintf]

I have an Echo SRM-2400 trimmer and find that when I tip the trimmer over to get 90 degrees to my work, unless the gas tank is full, it will run for 30 seconds or so then stall out. I am guessing fuel starvation.

I have not yet figured out if I might be tipping it the wrong way - is there a guideline?

Now here is a basic question, should I be holding it so the string chops at the front of the head, or the reverse with the string hitting at the back (toward my feet)? I am holding the trimmer with the engine toward my right side, the head to my left side.

[Gravely_Man]

That edging job looks wonderful. Some people can use a trimmer and some people master a trimmer. You are certainly are a member of the latter. Thank you for sharing the great work.


Gravely_Man

[captdevo]

Nice work, very well done!!!

[Toatlandscape]

Trimmer, You get those results by only using a string trimmer? I have tried but can only get a couple of weeks in the summer when St Augustine runnere are growing 6" a week. I just cannot seem to keep up. What size and brand of line do you use? I also tend to break the line if I use it to edge. It REALLY works for you! Great job!!

[fprintf]

Sorry but I dragged up this old thread when asking my trimming question above. I still love the trimming results, however.

[Mr_Marc]

Trimmer:

That St Augustine is a real creeper nice looking work. What edger are you using? We are using the Echo PE2000 Clean cut and light weight. Never a problem. :blob3:

[We do 4 U]

I find that the best way to edges looking as good as they do above is to edge with the trimmer from the hard surface you are edging, not from the grass (lets you see your work better), walk backwards and edge with the string rotating away from you.

[greenman]

I was looking at the first pic posted. I noticed that the turf is scalped/edged around all of the sprinkler heads. Is this a common practice with some of you guys? If so, why?

[joshua]

when we trim with the trimmers, we use .95 echo cross fire and that stuff doesn't break. think of what size trimmer line you use, then think your not just cutting grass with it, but also hitting concrete and blacktop, you need something tough, we tried .80 but it didn't work.

to edge with a trimmer it takes practice, and some icy hot for when your shoulder gets tight from holding the trimmer vertical.

[greenman]

Originally posted by joshua


to edge with a trimmer it takes practice, and some icy hot for when your shoulder gets tight from holding the trimmer vertical.

I dont hold mine vertical, I just turn it at 90 degrees.

[MikeLT1Z28]

looks good. i prefer my stick edger still though. bermuda can grow over the edges awfully fast here. sometimes i use my trimmer on my zoysia properties though.

[Mueller Landscape Inc]

Out here the only time we use an edger is when the job is new and the previous LCO did a poor job. A steel blade will cut through the thick grass and mud much faster than a trimmer. Once the groove is made we use the trimmer.

BTW it looks to me as though the photo was a little "doctored" in the first post. I can see where the "black line" was drawn in to give it a better contrast.

Also, 095 line leaves a cleaner cut than the thicker lines like 105 etc.

[KathysLGC]

Very nice. I coverd for some one this year for two weeks and he edges at 45 degrees and the grass was nasty looking near the edges. The first week I didnt edge to let it grow back and the second week I edged at 90 degrees. I got nothing but compliments from his customers on there new look...lol He's been in the bussiness for 10 years. This is my first year but learned alot from this site. I have a huge house (account) that takes me 1.5 hours to trim so i got lots of practice and sore shoulders and forarms. I use a shindawia T230. I can now edge pretty good. I can reshaped beds fairly good to. I use the huskvarna titanium .095 trimmer line and it last a long time.

[trimmer]

Thanks guys for all the compliments. There have been a lot of questions asked and already answered by some other people, so I am just going to tell you how I do things. First and formost these pictures are not doctored up and I would be more than happy to demonstrate my trimmer edge for those that don't believe me.

I am currently using a Husquvarna 325 with .095 line in the head, I have Stihl and Echo before. To get the edge I walk down the hard surface backwards with the head spinning away from me (the dirt is thown the direction of the fresh edge) and hold the trimmer at a 90 degree angle. Around beds I walk forward, against the direction of the head, it is just eaiser for me to walk in the grass forwards rather than backwards. If I walk forward on the hard surface edge it becomes wavy.

Yes I use my trimmer all year round to edge with. The trimmer is probably my most used piece of equipment that I have. I never have a problem with St. Augustine growing runners over the sidewalk. I have noticed that since I have been using the trimmer the grass around the edges dosen't grow as much horizontaly.

I was waiting for someone to say something about the sprinklers. They are done like that because when the lady hired me she requested it, it is also one of the reasons why she fired the other company. I cut the half circles around the misters by the drive because they couldn't get over the grass to throw the water. No it is not a common practice to scalp the grass around sprinklers. Although I do see a lot of half circles around walks.

[Green Pastures]

Looks like your customer is using some pretty hard city water either that or well water for her sprinkler system. We get rust colored stains out of well water around here, and no stains with city water. Any comments?

Also, what kind of digital camera did you get?

Scott

[goodbeus]

Trimmer,

just curious as to how long it took to edge everything with that trimmer...it looks good though...

[trimmer]

The stains are from well water. The city water down here doesn't leave rust stains either. My camera is a Kodax DX3500. Just to edge around the drive and road proably takes 5 min. I have never timed it. It doesn't take much longer to do it with trimmer than it does with the edger. You must also fiqure in going back to the truck to get the edger and start it up. If it does take longer it is well worth the time.

[Blade]

Hey Trimmer,
That is some nice edging. Along with the edging, I'd probly recommend some insecticide. Looks like you may be getting some chinch bugs.
Just a thought, might help you upsell.

[greenman]

Originally posted by trimmer





I was waiting for someone to say something about the sprinklers. They are done like that because when the lady hired me she requested it, it is also one of the reasons why she fired the other company. I cut the half circles around the misters by the drive because they couldn't get over the grass to throw the water. No it is not a common practice to scalp the grass around sprinklers. Although I do see a lot of half circles around walks.

Thanks for the reply about trimming around the heads. I have only seen this a few times. Here's another question. Why will the heads NOT spray over the grass without it being edged? Poor installation?

[J-mike]

I've been using string trimmers since they were first invented and 65hoss is right... it is an art. One I have never been able to master!

Oh don't get me wrong, I can cut an edge with string, but give me a good stick edger and stand back!

I've learned that if you pull your edger along, and not push it, you can cut an edge in a hurry.

Trimmer, if that edge in your pictures is done with string, you've got the right handle!

J-mike

[PaulJ]

For anyone trying to get a good edge with a trimmer and feels they arn't quite mastering it? Try the Edgit ( Edgit.com )
It makes a great guide for edging and trimming too. Iv'e said this on hear before but I'll say it again. I learned to edge wiht a trimmmer from my old boss. He used the trimmer left-handed and edged free-hand. I got pretty good at it after quite a bit of practice. Then last year I tried an Edgit and I was able to trim and edge much faster and better everyone who sees me using it asks about "that thing " on the end of my trimmer. Once I have an edge I don't forsee ever having to use a blade edger on it again.

check out the website and try it you'll like it.

:D :D

[brucec32]

I also edge with a straight shaft trimmer, but hell if I know how to teach any employees to do it. They gave me ulcers trying.

It takes practice. I'm so used to doing it now I can't relearn how to do it left handed so I can use an edgit faster.