[Shop-talk] I feel . . . wrong

[Dave C]

I keep my big old bicycle handled Stihl around for murdering brush and 
high weeks (and the occasional banana slug) but after getting two light 
duty gas string trimmers that my wife couldn't start, I got her a 
plug-in Stihl that she's thrilled with.  This was after the old yellow 
single line Weed Eater she inherited from her dad finally bit the dust.

Now if she would just put the damn extension cord away....



On 4/30/2013 12:46 PM, Randall wrote:
> ---- Mark Miller <markmiller at threeboysfarm.com> wrote:
>
>> But But But I have turned my back on a tool with an engine in place of one
>> with a dinky little electric motor and a cord.  Convince me I need to fix
>> the Echo and use a real tool.
> Sorry, Mark.  I'm as big a fan of Our Lady of Internal Combustion as anyone, but if electric meets your needs better, I'd say go for it.
>
> My experience was that the electric trimmer just didn't have what it takes to slash through weeds too thick to walk through (or even see over), so I rebuilt the carb on my old Homelite without a rebuild kit (gaskets cut from construction paper, etc.).  But if it had done the job (and I didn't have to drag a cord up a nearly vertical hill), I would have kept using the little electric.  It was still handy for trimming around the flower beds and so on.
>
> Randall
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