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Years ago @ 1991, had a brother give my dad a gas powered WeedEater brand line trimmer. Dad took the thing and was playing with it around the outside perimeter of the house; It ran for a few minutes before bogging down and quitting. Thinking it had ran out of gas, I went over and put more gas in for him. Went to pull the starter, and a heavy drag was felt pulling on the rope. Come to find out that he didn't know about mixing oil with the gas, which of course, burnt up engine. All right, I said. We got in the truck and took him over and bought an electric model, as we already had 100' cord. He was happy, and we thought the problem solved, until a couple of weeks later, Dad called up and said he had a problem with this one. So, came to his house, looked at the trimmer, and--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- the suspense is killing you, isn't it?

The string came around and cut the string cutter off. Amazing, huh? So, after that he used plain old scissors.

Some people just don't have good luck with things like that! Does he still use scissors?

Tne way it used to be done before string trimmers. Teedious. :biggrin:

lawn mower fanatic said:

Some people just don't have good luck with things like that! Does he still use scissors?

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No. His body gave up the ghost in the year 2006, between the ages of 82 to 84. his life was secret, so nobody really knew hold he was. Although he treated me like dirt (He was lifer in the military) through most of my childhood, He was my best and ONLY friend here on Earth, at the time of his separation from this life. He was in very bad shape from eating too much ice cream (half gallon of Neapolitan per day, or more, if there were two in the freezer), so rigor-mortise set in about a year before his body succumbed. Really. It was so funny.

midnite rider said:

Tne way it used to be done before string trimmers. Teedious. :biggrin:

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Tedious? Why? Nothing to start, no gas, electric, batteries, or oil with the frustration to worry about. Just squeeze the handles, and viola, your on your way, that is, of course, until your wrist/arm runs out of zap. Electric scissors was the next best thing, but now we are going back into the frustration of the batteries.

Elias40 said:

Tedious? Why? Nothing to start, no gas, electric, batteries, or oil with the frustration to worry about. Just squeeze the handles, and viola, your on your way, that is, of course, until your wrist/arm runs out of zap. Electric scissors was the next best thing, but now we are going back into the frustration of the batteries.

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When you say electric scissors, do you mean something like this?

Elias40 said:

No. His body gave up the ghost in the year 2006, between the ages of 82 to 84.

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I'm sorry to hear that. :frown:

lawn mower fanatic said:

When you say electric scissors, do you mean something like this?
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Yeah, but the B&D's we had, the batteries were much bigger.

Elias40 said:

Tedious? Why? Nothing to start, no gas, electric, batteries, or oil with the frustration to worry about. Just squeeze the handles, and viola, your on your way, that is, of course, until your wrist/arm runs out of zap. Electric scissors was the next best thing, but now we are going back into the frustration of the batteries.

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Tedious meaning tiresome having to bend over and task taking 10 times longer otherwise we would still be using them instead of the string trimmer. It doesnt take long at all to add gas and oil and yank a cord compared to the time saved doing a 100' curb. As a backup they are ok or for a small area. :biggrin:

midnite rider said:

Tedious meaning tiresome having to bend over and task taking 10 times longer otherwise we would still be using them instead of the string trimmer. It doesnt take long at all to add gas and oil and yank a cord compared to the time saved doing a 100' curb. As a backup they are ok or for a small area. :biggrin:

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Yeah I agree. I have never had any problems with my Echo SRM-225 trimmer and it is a lot quicker than electric scissors! :wink:

lawn mower fanatic said:

Yeah I agree. I have never had any problems with my Echo SRM-225 trimmer and it is a lot quicker than electric scissors! :wink:

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Free exercise, eh? no gym required!

Elias40 said:

Free exercise, eh? no gym required!

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That's my goal! haha:laughing:

lawn mower fanatic said:

That's my goal! haha:laughing:

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Glad we got your goat, Fanatic!

quite a story Elias, and i'm sorry for your loss. i lost my dad too in 2006. as for taking out weeds, i bought my echo srm-2100 new in 1998 and it's still a great machine. runs just like new. i had an electric weedeater when i was a kid and i hated it. the guy next door to us had an awesome echo, one like i wished my parents would buy but it never happened. they never bought a snapper for me either. o well i got 'em now. anyway, as for tedious, i rather enjoy the "tedious" job of sweeping the garage, walkway, sidealks and gutter with my trusty old broom. no blower needed. there's something theraputic i guess (for lack of a better word) about using the broom to make a messy concrete surface clean again. i enjoy it anyway.

Snapperfreak said:

quite a story Elias, and i'm sorry for your loss. i lost my dad too in 2006. as for taking out weeds, i bought my echo srm-2100 new in 1998 and it's still a great machine. runs just like new. i had an electric weedeater when i was a kid and i hated it. the guy next door to us had an awesome echo, one like i wished my parents would buy but it never happened. they never bought a snapper for me either. o well i got 'em now. anyway, as for tedious, i rather enjoy the "tedious" job of sweeping the garage, walkway, sidealks and gutter with my trusty old broom. no blower needed. there's something theraputic i guess (for lack of a better word) about using the broom to make a messy concrete surface clean again. i enjoy it anyway.

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What kind of Echo did your neighbor have?

Snapperfreak said:

quite a story Elias, and i'm sorry for your loss. i lost my dad too in 2006. as for taking out weeds, i bought my echo srm-2100 new in 1998 and it's still a great machine. runs just like new. i had an electric weedeater when i was a kid and i hated it. the guy next door to us had an awesome echo, one like i wished my parents would buy but it never happened. they never bought a snapper for me either. o well i got 'em now. anyway, as for tedious, i rather enjoy the "tedious" job of sweeping the garage, walkway, sidealks and gutter with my trusty old broom. no blower needed. there's something theraputic i guess (for lack of a better word) about using the broom to
make a messy concrete surface clean again. i enjoy it anyway.

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Thanks Snapper, for your sentiments. If one gets ill enough, and, with dad, like a light bulb going dim, as his mind was going out as quickly as his body, then death is actually a relief, not only for him, but for the family members tending to hourly needs.

The funniest part about it, I found out he wasn't really my dad until after he died. And they say secrets go to the grave, hee- hee. He adopted me so I wouldn't be raised up being a bastard.

Likewise, my parents, (mom being an feminist thought women were better than men in everything, except yard chores, which were dirty jobs left for men to do, because they are slobs anyway.)-would go about doing work the cheapest possible way. What cheaper way to go, when you have a male kid around, who knows he will get his butt whipped for not complying to their whims. Got dad barking orders, because, if I didn't do what was expected, then mom would come after dad, and then both would come after me and apply some form of punishment. And to cut the grass, the only thing we had was an old reel mower that he acquired back in the sixties, although it was made in the 30's Tried to convince him that we needed a gas powered rotary- he didn't believe in gas powered anything, except 1 family station wagon used for both lugging family around, and utility purposes.My yard experiences started in the early 70's and went on until '78, when dad wanted to separate from the family because of personal problems focused around mom and her faithfulness.

Eventually ended with a divorce, which opened the floodgates with several other problems, that would take weeks to describe on paper.

Anyway, I followed my dad's examples, and pretty much use them today. I also understood mistakes he made, and bent my thinking to prevent making the mistakes. For other mechanical fallacies, you can seek out other threads, if you want. The most we can do is keep it entertaining, although most of the stories are close to the truth. The forum owners won't let one post the absolute truth.

can't remember the model, fanatic. this was back in the early '80s and i was around 7 years old but he also had an awesome commercial snapper sp. i hated the old craftsman mower we had, flimsy. we also had an old yellow electric weedeater too. sort of got the job done.

do u still have that old reel mower from the '30s Elias?? we used to have one probably similar to that. it was my grandparents, the first mower i ever used. wish i still had it. i always check yard sales for an old one like it bust havnt found one yet.