OutdoorKing Repair Forum Forums General Discussion Forum Off Topics Edges and Surrounds..What do you use?

Hi to All,
Joe Carroll has started a great thread on what people use to mow their lawns; to satisfy my curiosity, I wish to know what our members use to do the edges and surrounds.

I personally use a Victa Tilt-A-Cut for the edges and a Homelite line trimmer fitted with a Ryobi bump-head, and am using 2.0mm Bynorm 6 bladed copolymer nylon line

What do you use?

Hi all,
The tilt-a-cut really looks great! I love that era of engines!
Anyway I use a recent model echo brush cutter with a ratchet start (a 3 year old can start it with ease!)I also have an assortment of old junk that I use including a husquvana and the rattiest Honda 4 stroke around. It has a leaky breather that spills lots of oil right into the intake port. i would rather the oil back in the engine than all over me thought!
And good follow up topic.
Regards jay

Hi Darryl,

Here is one of my edgers that we use.

Used a Bosclip until the tilt-a-cut arrived the only thing that needs to be done on it is a new air filter, fuel tap and a degrease. Might respray the black handles with engine enamel to give that new look. I can still see use for the Bosclip for those hard to get area's that the tilt-a-cut will be hard to manoeuvre in. Pictures/Youtube to come with in the next week.

Looking forward to seeing the pics/video Greg, I haven't had any experience with Bosclip.....Congrats on your getting a T-A-Cut

What was interesting that on Flee-bay the guy said the thing was hard to start. (Which helped keep the price low as I have seen full crankers in good nick go over the $150 mark. The seller was selling for his now decesed father-in-law ) After I got the thing home I striped and cleaned the carby out to discover that the diaphram in the LM was not seated properly and the throttle cable was out of adjustment. Now the girl is a 1 pull start from cold with the mandatory 1 press prime from the LM.

Outstanding work that I feel needs to be done is as follows:

1 Strip and clean de-compressor and re-lap valve.

2. Install new fuel tap and new tubing. Fuel tap has a slight weep, tubing to be replaced for piece of mind.

3. New air filter and foam grommet

4. Exterior Degrease

5. Repaint Handles using Gloss Black engine enamel.

Hey Greg, at least the handles are easy to remove and paint, here is a pic of mine getting done in "Killrust" white enamel.

I use a Kawasaki TG 24 Brushcutter, it's not as neat as a lawn edger but it does the job.

Wow I have to go take a pic back soon.....

Hey gmax, you'll have to take a pic! we'd all love to see it.

One craftsman edger with a 2? hp briggs motor and a ryobi trimmer. The trimmer does around all the cars and fences. The edger on the paths and cement.

Darryl, Here is the Kasasaki TG 24 & the Stihl FS 150 I use occasionally

Hi to All, we haven't visited this topic in a while, what is everyone using these days?

I use an Alroh Imp edger. I used a Bosclip long ago, but I found I'd rather use a handwheel than that thing: no power to speak of, and wheels barely over 1" diameter, so it would get stuck on a piece of gravel I could barely see. It also used up a blade in 2 trips around an 8 metre by 15 metre patch of grass. The Alroh is probably also harder to use than a handwheel, but I keep telling myself that when I become proficient with it, it will get easier (I've only used it twice.) I do think that if I were doing long straight runs on grass that hadn't spread so much that you can't find the edge of the path, the Alroh would be a dream. In practice I find that big patches of out-of-control kikuyu, badly-poured concrete edges, and weirdly curved mowerstrips (well it seemed like a good idea at the time) make it slow work that produces pretty ordinary results.