I had a trip over to Fethiye last week when Rob took his dog Pancho to see the vet there and I ended up buying a strimmer. For those who don’t know the name it is a motorised weed cutter with a rotating head that cuts weeds with a plastic line. I think some places call them ‘weed whackers’ which is a bit more of a descriptive name. Well the one that I bought is driven by a 32cc petrol engine and works very well. I’ve laid waste to most of the weeds in the garden with it but it does have a drawback, well several particular to my garden actually. The first is that the plastic line that does the cutting gets broken easily by all the rock in the garden. I had used up the original line in the space of about twenty minutes, not a good start. My first modification was to get some plastic coated wire, similar to motorcycle brake or clutch cable. Far more durable and, with a bit more weight in it, it cut more effectively too.
The third drawback that I found is that using it is addictive. Well I can live with that, I always like using powered tools so rather than gardening it is more like fun. The strong ‘woody’ bits have been left sticking out of a sea of weed bits so I’ll have to get them out with a pickaxe, not too pleased about that.
We’ve had a bit of bad weather recently so I’ll have to wait a while before I get out there with any other gardening chores. Nothing else much has been happening. Winter (cold and wet) seems to bring a halt to most other things I want to do in the garden.
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