A Gardeners Forum Forums General Discussion Landscape trials and triumphs Gardening tools and power equipment I hate my string trimmer! Or it hates me!

I have relatively new string trimmer... but for the life of me I cannot seem to manage the string! I load it and use it for only 5 minutes or so and the strings are reduced to mere stubbles. Admittedly I am sometimes using it as an edger and so it's striking pavement, but this is not that often. Also, I don't seem to be able to have it let out new string by tapping its base down on the ground. Finally, loading new string is obviously a 3 handed job and alas I was born with only two. CAn anyone help? Oh! I have tried different gauges of string, but nothing seems to help.

R

Take your trimmer to a local Chainsaw shop. They'll set you up with a heavy duty line and the right size. That's what I did and was amazed at the difference. Well worth the $20.

Tamara, thanks for the advice. Do you reccomend this over just buying heavier line and installing it yourself. I've done this with no change in performance...

R

Yup, because they try it there. If it doesn't work they don't sell it to you, they keep trying different line til they get the right one.

Got it... thanks!