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jimotis4heisman said:
my reference is the gas gelling up etc over the winter, i always use stabilizer but the equipment runs poorly for a few thanks of gas. its just a pain in the ass those damn weed whackers and other very small enigines.
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After you add Stabil, let it run until you can smell the stabilizer burning. Also try running 93 octane in your 2 strokes. How much gas are you really going to end up using? Good gas and oil does make a difference.
 
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Thump said:
I don't know BB73, how do you know about common figure skating injuries?

I've only heard of bad rotators from pitching in baseball.

Queer.
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Nice attempt at a comeback, but I only know about the injury from reading about it. And I read a lot, and don't have a thing for reading about skating.

Fag.

http://www.pacpubserver.com/new/health/r-s/hm223.html

Shoulder arthroscopy is performed every day, but it made headlines recently when Gov. Christie Whitman, an avid amateur athlete, opted for surgery on her damaged rotator cuff.

The late gold medal pairs figure skater, Sergei Grinkov, also had the surgery when he lost strength in his important lifting arm before the 1994 Olympics. The surgery and the skater were both successful. Grinkov and his partner, Gordeeva, skated to a spectacular second gold medal

http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/FigureSkating/2004/10/06/658181.html
KITCHENER -- After his final professional figure skating show in Montreal next week, there will be no more stunning triple lateral twists in Lloyd Eisler's repertoire.

That's actually good news for the retiring 41-year-old Seaforth native, who ends his rewarding 17-year pairs partnership with Isabelle Brasseur after two hand-picked farewell shows -- tomorrow night at Kitchener's Memorial Auditorium and next week in Montreal.

After years of lifting, twisting, throwing and spinning Brasseur in amateur and pro ranks, Eisler needs surgery to correct a torn rotator cuff in his right shoulder.
 
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Thump said:
Yeaahhhhh, surrrrrrrrrrrrrrrre. :slappy:
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Obviously, I just made it up to give you some shit. But once you tried to turn the tables, google is a wonderful thing. :biggrin:

edit - and your comeback was a nice refinement of "I know you are but what am I?", PeeWee

I don't know BB73, how do you know about common figure skating injuries?

I've only heard of bad rotators from pitching in baseball.

Queer.
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Thump, speaking from experience, use a spade. Edgers work relatively well, but their best use is along sidewalks and driveways, not along flower and mulch beds. If you're going to edge along a bed, use a spade, and get about 6 inches or so down. Just stab into the earth, place your foot right behind the blade, and pull the handle towards you (away from the bed). This will pop out the piece of dirt, and leave you a nice, clean, deep edge which will hold all the mulch, etc. in the bed.

If you have a weedwacker, you can use that to edge along the sidewalk and driveway, you don't even need the edger attachment. Just turn the blades (or string) verticle, and go to town. It takes a little practice, but once you get the hang of it, you can edge quicker with a weekwacker than with an edger.
 
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FKAGobucks877 said:
Thump, speaking from experience, use a spade. Edgers work relatively well, but their best use is along sidewalks and driveways, not along flower and mulch beds. If you're going to edge along a bed, use a spade, and get about 6 inches or so down. Just stab into the earth, place your foot right behind the blade, and pull the handle towards you (away from the bed). This will pop out the piece of dirt, and leave you a nice, clean, deep edge which will hold all the mulch, etc. in the bed.

If you have a weedwacker, you can use that to edge along the sidewalk and driveway, you don't even need the edger attachment. Just turn the blades (or string) verticle, and go to town. It takes a little practice, but once you get the hang of it, you can edge quicker with a weekwacker than with an edger.
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Thanks for the input FKA. The weird thing about my weedeater is that it only has one string coming out of the head instead of two so it's not as easy to keep a consistent cut.

Is the edger more for for trimming the grass or digging up the dirt to make a straight edge? I guess I'm confused.
 
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Thump said:
Is the edger more for for trimming the grass or digging up the dirt to make a straight edge? I guess I'm confused.
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The edger will do both, although it doesn't dig into the dirt enough to make a good edge for a flower bed. They are primarily designed to keep a nice, straight edge along pavement (such as sidewalks and driveways). If you're looking to edge your beds, a spade is a better way to go.
 
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Thump,
Don't waste your time buying an edger. You said you enjoy working in the yard so just do it by hand. If you're concerned with the time using a spade, then use a flat head shovel. It covers more area and is actually quite fast. I had a gas edger and it did no where near as good a job as the shovel. The problem I have with the gas edger is that the blade is only so long and can adjust to so many angles. I like a nice deep and angled edge. After you get the edging done, it's easy to keep neat with the weed wacker. First, run the weed wacker along the top of the grass (by the edged area) as you walk backwards the whole way. Then, turn the w.w. so the string is running vertically and walk forward the lengh of the edged area. That process will make the grass perfectly edged every time.

The easy way to edge with the shovel is to start in the grass, push the shovel in a few inches, pull back until you hear the roots snap, then pull out the shovel and do the same thing right next to where the shovel ends, that way you have one continuous cut. After the cut is done, you put the shovel in while standing in the flower bed or driveway. This cut is more like a 45 degree angle or whatever your preference. Again, push it in until the roots snap and you feel the other cut that you already put in from the grass. If you do it this way, you can pull the pieces right up very easy. You can pull up 5-10 feet at a time if you'd like. I just then put the pieces in the wheelbarrel and throw them in the woods.

After the inital edge is done, just keep neat withe the weed wacker.
 
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This is the one I ended up getting:

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My original broke the other day so I went to Home Depot to replace it b/c I had a gift card, the fucker bent within 10 minutes.

I have nothing but problems with Home Depot.
http://images.lowes.com/product/049206/049206184428.jpg
 
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My family had a gas powered edger from sears, probably a craftsman but I don't remember, and it was good for getting the initial overgrowth away but it never delivered that really trimmed look. Weed whackers are needed do that. I'd suggest renting one for the first go around and getting a weed eater to keep it up and get the nice space between the sidewalk and grass.
 
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The gasoline powered weedeater type edgers are for sidewalks, driveways and the like, not flower beds. We have a bed edger for that, this thing. Very expensive but works relatively well.
 

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I have a manual edger, an electric edger, and a weed wacker. Honestly, I seldom use the electric edger. I use the manual one along the drive and sidewalk, and the weed wacker in the same way and along the garden beds.

Just me, but if I could do it over again I'd buy something else I needed before an electric or gas edger...
 
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