Did you know this about your string trimmer?
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- Опубликовано: 10 апр 2024
- If you have trouble with your string breaking or getting brittle, this one little trick could relive all of your stress.
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I used to buy 5 lb reels of string line and put it in a pail filled with water. And this is going back years ago.
I use a similar trick for our string. I spray the string with Armor-All and then put it in a baggy. The Armor-All also helps the string slip out easier so I have less problems with binding inside the spool.
I always learn something useful from the Messick's channel. Thanks, Neil. And keep up the good work.
Neal, absolutely love this quick short format & to the point video! A great series title - “Quick Tip Thursday”! Tim in Northern TN
He had a series of videos for a while, called Three Minute Thursdays. He hasn't put one out in a long time.
But you can go back and watch the series.
@@westendlawn correct, saw those videos when he was doing them…good series to continue. Tim
Thanks for the tip Neil
Nice tip!
I started doing this last year and couldn't believe how well it works. I cut the correct length I need to respool and store a bunch of those lengths in a plastic coffee can with the snap tight lid.
I keep mine in a bucket of water all summer. Mightvvtry the armorall trick, too.
First of all funny about the cookies. Another tip, when using them plastic blades you also soak them in water before you use em so they are not brittle and break when used. Great tip on soaking the string. Weed trimmers are a huge pain.
I learned this just the other day when I was buying string at rural king. The salesman told me that I needed to store it in water to make my string last longer. I thought he was joking until he showed me the back of a package of stihl weed eater string that was the recommended way to store. When I came home I put the string in my stock tank.
water and plastic (ie oil) mix?
Should it be water with minerals and electrolytes for nutrition or distilled water so there's no hard water residual buildup???
WOW, now that your full of cookies, haha , great tip and believe me I have trimmer string from way to many years ago...
Cool idea,, but were the cookies yummy ? 😀
Have you been watching Chickanic? She gave that in a tip some months ago :D
I was thinking the same. @Chickanic tries to give that tip every few months so casual viewers can learn and apply this to their own string.
I don't watch her. Learned from one of our salesman myself.
@@MessicksEquip You can pick up a lot of information from her vids.
Never tried that, I may drop my spool in a bucket this season and see how it works. I know we're not talking products, but do yourself a favor and ditch the standard trimmer head and get an Echo Speed Feed head.
I had a bad accident with a string trimmer that required surgery after a 4cm piece of fencing wire launched in my left leg two years latter i bought a European scythe kit from Lehmans hardware to replace the trimmer now i dont understand why string trimmers are so popular in most situations it's lighter quiet and doesn't use gas the only times i use the string trimmer is with a brush blade to remove trees everything else i just use the scythe the only thing i can even guess that would be the reason scythes are so misunderstood is that the mass produced stamped steel ones once produced here in America are hard to sharpen and thus were harder to use and maintain
I have both of these and the string trimmer will trim very close to posts, under fences, etc., but the scythe will hit these when trying to cut around/next to them. The scythe is fine in open spaces but the trimmer is for confined spaces. You can get high quality Austrian scythes with much more ergonomic snaths than traditional US ones. Your comment about your injury is very important. I use a string trimmer( and a walk behind lawn mower) only when I’m wearing long pants and boots. I, too, had a similar accident with a long recovery.
Good luck edging with a scythe
@tirepressurerob8553 I personally don't have a sidewalk or driveway that isn't currently taking restored early farm equipment with steel wheels that I would want paved,,,,, however there is a manual edger aswell that's got a nifty little wheel to ride the cement and a spiked blade for along the edge, if edging was needed for visual appeal
Thanks Neil. Chickanic and several other RUclipsrs has been telling us for a year or two to rehydrate your trimmer line.
You can’t rehydrate plastic with water.
Trimmer line doesn't last long enough on my property to dry out. Maybe buy a smaller roll?
I had no idea about this, interesting. But I also cheat and use a three bladed head.
The spare plastic blades can be stored in water as well.... STIHL actually changed their packaging a few years ago so the come in a zip lock bag to fill with water
RUclips told me to eat the cookies. Honest
YES. This trick works well. Do you like the stihl trimmer ? Can you put a brush blade on it ?
Love the trimmer. Often not a fan of battery, but love the battery trimmer.
Good advice! Eat the cookies first.
What!?
That’s an old trick I have been doing for over 20 years.
If people take there string trimmer out and use it string wouldn't go bad cause it get used up. I go thru rolls of it never had that problem.
Hydration? It’s actually oxidation.
Putting the plastic “string” into water keeps the oxygen away from it.
It has nothing to do with hydration.
It becomes brittle because it absorbs moisture. It doesnt dry out- it was dry to start with. Is this a late Aprils Fool?
A filament dryer costs more than a bag of water.
I use a similar trick for our string. I spray the string with Armor-All and then put it in a baggy. The Armor-All also helps the string slip out easier so I have less problems with binding inside the spool.
You're going to attract so much dust and crude in your trimmer head if your whole spool is covered in a sticky substance like armorall
@@nickuva6508 Thanks for the concern and warning. I've been doing this for over 10 years now and never found that to be a problem. The Armor-All spray I use on my stored bulk string is very thin, leaves almost no residuals and I try not to coat the whole spool unless I am cleaning it. The only issue I had from the Armor-All was on my old "weedeater" style spools that you have to start two strings, each in small hole. The string kept slipping out of the holes until I got a couple wraps on it.
I did have one spool that gave me problems with dirt buildup but that was a DEWALT style that the surface edge had wore through on. Every time I would bump it to release string, the worn hole dug up some more dirt and packed it in the spool. I had to replace that one, not cheap.
Armor all is good to seal plastic away from oxygen.