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Post by Doug on Oct 24, 2014 11:29:36 GMT -5
While eating breakfast watched kid (late 20s ) across the street try to use a manual weed whacker.  He had no idea how to use it. Used it like a hoe, bent in half and tried to use it like an ax. The weed eater generation is lost.  Like Chris said he's got no rhythm, and the way to use those is to get the rhythm going back and forth as you walk. I didn't know the proper name for it. But I found it under manual weed whacker. |
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Post by theevan on Oct 24, 2014 11:37:52 GMT -5
I packed one of those in my luggage (disassembled, natch) on a Tanzania trip. I had watched the cut grass wit a bent-tip machete.
I demoed the thing to Laoni, who took a few whacks herself before falling down laughing. She dug it. And got the knack immediaty
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Post by Doug on Oct 24, 2014 11:42:36 GMT -5
I can remember Dennis learning to use a real sithe 30+ yrs ago. And he understood the proper use and it still wasn't easy to get the right rhythm. The little weed whackers are much easier to use.
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Post by millring on Oct 24, 2014 11:59:59 GMT -5
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Post by Rob Hanesworth on Oct 24, 2014 13:04:52 GMT -5
Good for practicing your golf swing.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 24, 2014 15:45:11 GMT -5
I have one. It's great for the Back 40. Of course, it's useless along the fence, so I have a gas trimmer as well.
As my Grandfather was found of reminding me, "Proper tool for the proper job."
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Post by fauxmaha on Oct 24, 2014 16:06:41 GMT -5
You guys don't have goats?
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Post by billhammond on Oct 24, 2014 16:11:45 GMT -5
You guys don't have goats? Only for social reasons. It would be wrong to make them work. |
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Post by david on Oct 24, 2014 18:23:58 GMT -5
You guys don't have goats? Only for social reasons. It would be wrong to make them work.  |
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Post by Doug on Oct 24, 2014 18:52:35 GMT -5
You guys don't have goats? Only for social reasons. It would be wrong to make them work. You can tell them city people don't know nothin'. Goats is for work, sheep is for social reasons. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 24, 2014 23:04:36 GMT -5
If my home owner's association allowed it, I'd get two goats, about 12 chickens, and a rooster.
Association be damned, I may put in four or five bat houses in the Back 40.
(Do you all get the Back 40 reference, or is that too Army?)
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Post by RickW on Oct 24, 2014 23:12:34 GMT -5
The scythe has to be pretty crazy sharp.
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Post by coachdoc on Oct 25, 2014 5:38:58 GMT -5
Give that guy a hooded black robe.
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Post by drlj on Oct 25, 2014 8:05:27 GMT -5
We had one of those when I was a kid. My dad would get going with that thing and anything in his way would be cut at ground level.
I prefer the power cutters. Actually, I prefer the lawn service guys pulling up in the truck and taking care of it.
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Post by RickW on Oct 25, 2014 9:36:49 GMT -5
We had one of those when I was a kid. My dad would get going with that thing and anything in his way would be cut at ground level. I prefer the power cutters. Actually, I prefer the lawn service guys pulling up in the truck and taking care of it. Which is why I'm in a strata.  I love work - I can watch it for hours. Paul, I don't get that reference. I always thought it was a farming reference, as in the back 40 acres. |
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Post by mnhermit on Oct 25, 2014 9:51:29 GMT -5
We had one of those when I was a kid, my dad called it an 'idiot stick' because 'any idiot can use one' Next saw it in use by a prison work detail on the side of the road in Missouri in the 60s, must have been trustees.
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Post by Marshall on Oct 25, 2014 11:12:39 GMT -5
I've got one of these  Got it at a garage sale about 15 years ago for $1. I love the thing. |
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Post by Marshall on Oct 25, 2014 11:14:03 GMT -5
While eating breakfast watched kid (late 20s ) across the street try to use a manual weed whacker. He had no idea how to use it. Used it like a hoe, bent in half and tried to use it like an ax. The weed eater generation is lost. Like Chris said he's got no rhythm, and the way to use those is to get the rhythm going back and forth as you walk. You should have walked over and given him a lesson. You missed a teaching moment. |
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Like Chris said he's got no rhythm, and the way to use those is to get the rhythm going back and forth as you walk. 
I love work - I can watch it for hours.
