Have I been using my weed trimmer wrong?

[N7HEVN]

I don't like WOT , It sprays green crap far and wide, and really scrubs off string around the many rock at my place. If it were not for rocks, I wouldn't even have a string trimmer. But because of the rocks, I have TWO of them.

I'm like Cal on this one...

When I run my weed eater, I am feathering the throttle, depending on the material that is being trimmed/cut down, because when it's warm/hot outside, and I'm just wearing old sneakers and some tall socks, inevitably I'm hitting little rocks and twigs that just end up flinging into my shins...

Also, to the main point of the discussion, I'm feathering the throttle when using the trimmer, to help spin off material build-up. Some times, not all the time, when cutting material at one constant head speed, and depending on how fast you can swing left/right in your hip/arm motion, there's a build-up that occurs around the cutting head.

This is a good discussion item, probably a thought we've all had in our own inner voice, but thought perhaps not important enough to bring to a wider audience.

 

[TheEquineFencer]

This guy regularly trims next door.
Is this how you do it? Rev-rev-rev non-stop? Have I been doing it wrong this whole time?

Yes!

 

[TheEquineFencer]

Here's how I do mine.

 

[Jwmaustin]

This guy regularly trims next door.
Is this how you do it? Rev-rev-rev non-stop? Have I been doing it wrong this whole time?

You guys must not have much to cut. I have to run mine full throttle all the time because I'm actually cutting stuff. I don't know what you guys are cutting but there is very little that you can slow down for when I'm cutting.

 

[Cat303]

This guy regularly trims next door.
Is this how you do it? Rev-rev-rev non-stop? Have I been doing it wrong this whole time?

I would run a 2 stroke like my chain saw. My trimmer/brush saw is 4 stroke so I can run that wide open if needed lol

 

[Tinhack]

I have a battery powered DeWalt on speed one and feather it all the time.

 

[colonel54]

I say whatever makes you happy I do both as it depends on what I am triming

 

[kneedeep]

Run a chainsaw same way!??

 

[Gord Baker]

This guy regularly trims next door.
Is this how you do it? Rev-rev-rev non-stop? Have I been doing it wrong this whole time?

He is a frustrated chain saw/biker weirdo. Have a chat with him. Or not.

 

[motobreeder]

I found that by not running WOT while cutting, the trimmer line would cut a LOT more before breaking. Since 2-strokes don't have a governor I think that's the operator's job. Most of my cutting is against a hard surfaces - house, stones.