I use a stick edger. They are made for edging and get the job done quicker with less work on my part while leaving a pretty much perfect edge...crispy!

I think the folks who use string trimmers for edging are in parts of the country where it doesn't have to be done as frequently as it does where I live and work. It would waste a lot of time and energy to try to do all the edging I do everyday with string trimmer. That guy was moving along pretty quick with his trimmer but I could do any of those bits he did with a blade edger much quicker and leave the same results.

 

I'm sorry, but you couldn't be more wrong.

A dedicated edger is for cutting back overgrown grass to create the edge. A string trimmer will be much better at maintaining the edge. But you have to do it every week. If you let it go longer than that, the trimmer won't be able to cut back all the new growth.

Additionally, I don't see how using the same tool for a different job would take longer than walking to the truck, and getting out a new tool and warming it up.
Also...you then have to buy, own, and maintain an additional tool.

 

I use a Edgit on my trimmer and leave crisp lines as good or better.

 

Stay on topic this is a thread about edging skill with a string trimmer, not a debate about stick vs. trimmer. If you want that debate start your own thread.
BTW, the video is from Georgia , same southern grasses , it's still about trimmers.

 

 

Here's a girl!!

 

 

what exactly is a weed wacker? same thing as a weed eater? I hate it when a guy says, "you want me to weedeat?" no, just run the trimmer! lol.

anyway, gotta disqualify myself from this thread, I use an edger.

man, I miss the shaft drive Tanaka's.

 

I think WW is a southern term. Shaft tanaka, best tool for large commercials IMO.

 

the crap we have down here can't even be cut by a trimmer. crabgrass and so forth. even an edger has a hard time cutting through it. :laugh:

 

Must have Hard Crab Grass.

Can cut crabgrass w/trimmer easy here.

 

I've yet to see an edger in live action.

 

well, they are quick, don't blink, kinda like a mirage waaayyy off in the distant-and pooof, it's gone. lol

you kids crack me up.

 

That last video doesn’t show off the finished product though. Don’t understand the advantage of a single line over a dual line?

 

I use a trimmer on properties that don't need much edging but I think it's silly to not even own a (censored.)

Where is your truck parked when you complain about going back to get your (censored?) Ours is generally right there next to the sidewalk that needs edged, so I'm traveling an extra 4 feet and spending a few seconds to put one tool down and pick up another one.

I know there are plenty of guys out there with enough experience doing it that they are as fast with a trimmer as they can be with a (censored.) For every property I see that is edged well with a trimmer I see 10 more with 1" wide canyons that are filled with summer annual weeds when it gets hot out.

When I edge with a trimmer you can't tell whether I used that tool or (censored.) I know when it was a bad choice though if I'm aching afterwards. Edging with a trimmer is definitely more fatiguing than when I use the (censored.)

 

I use a trimmer on properties that don't need much edging but I think it's silly to not even own a (censored.)

Where is your truck parked when you complain about going back to get your (censored?) Ours is generally right there next to the sidewalk that needs edged, so I'm traveling an extra 4 feet and spending a few seconds to put one tool down and pick up another one.

I know there are plenty of guys out there with enough experience doing it that they are as fast with a trimmer as they can be with a (censored.) For every property I see that is edged well with a trimmer I see 10 more with 1" wide canyons that are filled with summer annual weeds when it gets hot out.

When I edge with a trimmer you can't tell whether I used that tool or (ce nsored.) I know when it was a bad choice though if I'm aching afterwards. Edging with a than when I use the (censored.)

1. Five houses down . 2. That's why this thread, Who is good and who is not, it's a challange , not everybody is good at it.

 

 

I watched this until I got to 1:51.

This is absolute garbage. Just look down that driveway and see the uneven edge and wavy line of soil as he hacks it up.

If this is peoples idea of edging fine, but I'd chew a guy out for making such a sloppy mess of a manicured lawn.

There is no skill to trashing an edge like that.

 

I have to assume that the video in post #11 is you, since it's the same trimmer and line you use as well as the rest of the set-up listed in the other vids on the channel as what you have posted numerous times that you run. Have you sent your vids in to the guy on YT in the first video posted?

 

Guy in above video is holding trimmer wrong. You got to do the Overhand Reach.

Also take guard off and move mowers. All that moonwalking a recipe for injury

 

why not just move the truck? :laugh:

 

Dumb way to hold trimmer when edging. Has to twist wrist. Very poor form.

Trimming:Edging is a highly skilled task that few master.

 

So I forwarded to the next job site, yeah.

Hack it up pal, glad you're having fun while you do it.

A lot of properties would fire us for that kind of edging, no joke.

 

So I forwarded to the next job site, yeah.

Hack it up pal, glad you're having fun while you do it.

A lot of properties would fire us for that kind of edging, no joke.

He had the guts to throw his work up for criticism. Since you jumped right in the middle of his shizz how about you show us your work, i.e. trimmer work. I would suggest , "put up or shut up". Here's one of mine

 

 

yeah, but those aren't weedeaters, they're trimmers! LOL

 

Would hate to be in a market that you’d get fired for edge like that. Never once used an edger and we mostly 1.5mil and up properties

Edging w/edger takes more time. Bad for business here.

 

Would hate to be in a market that you'd get fired for edge like that. Never once used an edger and we mostly 1.5mil and up properties

Edging w/edger takes more time. Bad for business here.

We bid the property with the amount of time it takes to use the proper tools. Sure it might take more time but we are getting paid for it, it's just business as usual for us.

Many of our commercial contracts specify all concrete edging is done with a stick edger and not a line trimmer. Planter beds are the only thing we regularly edge with string.

 

Sure but guys here will stick edge and prices are market. Never once done it and very rarely have complaint about an edge. Contracts just state Trim/Edge nothing about tool.

Don’t matter how much $$$ customers have. Most customers care if lawn cut on scheduled day, prop looks neat and price is reasonable.

People live busy lives.

Many guys Overthink quality.

 

Sure but guys here will stick edge and prices are market. Never once done it and very rarely have complaint about an edge. Contracts just state Trim/Edge nothing about tool.

Don't matter how much $$$ customers have. Most customers care if lawn cut on scheduled day, prop looks neat and price is reasonable.

People live busy lives.

Many guys Overthink quality.

True , as my son tells me , customer does not care that much, job just has to be better than they could do themself. Being on time.....this they care about. That said if you are always on time, do substantially better work at market pricing, you will eventually aquire that job and build 3+ yard stops. After about 2 years working on a street you start replacing the mediocre lco's

 

Just curious... Looks good. I use both a stick edger and a trimmer. Mainly depends on the property, I have one location where the trimmer will do better due to some uneven concrete. I go as fast as I can walk, but it isn't speed walking or anything like that. Just a normal pace.

 

In my area I use a trimmer it gets the fine blades of grass
In the spring I recut the edges with an edger and go over with string trimmer to tighten it upThumbs Up

 

That was supposed to say the same type of yard. Just missed a word is all.

 

The still picture yard is about half the square footage , no concrete edging on the beds and elevated turf on the walks edging , all making for much faster trimming on the still picture. 2.5 min was a guess, I have not mowed the still in a few years, moved my route closer to home.

 

Still, the same basic yards- small postage stamp sized lawns with beached white cement gutters/curbs and walks, and clearly well irrigated. They look great, and obviously you have them down very well, but those types of lawns are definitely easier to trim and edge and make look nice than what a lot of us have to do for the majority of our jobs where it is non irrigated, and lots of different grasses as well as weeds mixed in, not to mention a lot of jagged paved edges etc that don't look good no matter what you use on them. Some days you wonder why you even bother with some of these.