Wonder if that's intentional?

[Alpo]

My weed wacker. It is a residential weed wacker. It uses .065 line. It says in the owner's manual that you should not use heavier line, because that will strain the motor and wear it out sooner.

 

I buy a weed wacker. It comes preloaded. When I emptied the spool, I went down and bought a replacement spool of line. Over the next year or so I refilled the spool with this replacement line maybe three times.

 

Couple days ago I went out to weed whack the fence row, and as I picked up the wacker I remembered, the reason I had stopped halfway up the fence was because I had used up all the line. So I go on the tool shed to get the spare line to reload it. Can't find the spare line.

 

I ponder. I can spend $5 in gasoline driving down to the hardware store and buy a $4 spoll of replacement line. Then I can load today and do yard work. Or - I can order a larger spool of line from Amazon for less money, not have to spend anything on gasoline, and it'll be here in 3 or 4 days. What to do, what to do.

 

So Amazon dropped the box off a little bit ago. When I took the spool out I looked at it and thought, that ain't 065. I look at the wrapper. Says it's .065. Take it to the gun room. Get out the calipers and measure it. .065.

 

Hmmm. Go look in the yard and find that 4-inch piece of blue that got snatched out of the whacker last week. Take it in the gun room and measure it. .100.

 

Hmmm again. I bought 065, but what I got was 100. Do you suppose they put heavier line in the package, on purpose, so that it will wear out the motor sooner, so I will have to buy a new weed wacker?

 

Hmmm

[Michigan Slim]

Get that fence done or are you too busy pondering? Lol

[Ozark Huckleberry]

The microchip in your weedwhacker communicated with the central lawn care hive, which intercepted the spooling order to load the spool that was to be shipped to you with the heavier line. 
 

Watch out, because your toaster is linked in, too.

[Long Fingers, SASS#56813]

Might want to pick up a couple packages. 

[John Kloehr]

I have a "consumer" weed whacker, Ryobi with rechargeable batteries 4Ah batteries. It does well, but just had my yard professionally down by "a guy" who does yards professionally. His gas-powered edgers cost twice what my electric set me back, and dang it does good work fast!

 

What I will say as a positive about mine is I am getting overheated by the time I use both batteries and appreciate the break for the rest of the day while the batteries recharge. I'm working towards planting an orchard (8 trees) and completely missed the window to get them in the ground. Now watering them daily and hoping to have a crop next year, but this damned heat wave is not good. Can't plant them until I have a spell of 85 degrees with rain if I want them to make it through.

[Warden Callaway]

We've replaced all our yard tools with EGO brand battery powered tools; chainsaw,  leaf blower, weedeater and hedge trimmer. They all do an excellent job.  No gas to mix. No problems starting.  Quite. 

[Rip Snorter]

My Wife bought a name brand electric trimmer and mower.  As with Electric cars they are so inferior to gas powered that they may enjoy a trip to the dump while still "new", as should the regime that promoted them.

[Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967]

Thirty years ago I "upgraded" from a corded "weed-eater" to a 2-stroke Echo straight shaft trimmer.  Worked that thing hard for the next 25 years on two homesteads - one 2 1/2 acres, the other half that size, current lot is 1/3 acre.  Finally retired it when the carb wore out.  Since 2-stroke machines haven't been available here for years, I replaced it with a Husqvarna 4-stroke.  Much heavier, reversed rotation (quite annoying), and significantly lower RPMs.  

 

Thinking it's time to buy a new carb for the old Echo.  

[Eyesa Horg]

8 hours ago, Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967 said:

Thirty years ago I "upgraded" from a corded "weed-eater" to a 2-stroke Echo straight shaft trimmer.  Worked that thing hard for the next 25 years on two homesteads - one 2 1/2 acres, the other half that size, current lot is 1/3 acre.  Finally retired it when the carb wore out.  Since 2-stroke machines haven't been available here for years, I replaced it with a Husqvarna 4-stroke.  Much heavier, reversed rotation (quite annoying), and significantly lower RPMs.  

 

Thinking it's time to buy a new carb for the old Echo 

Had a new carb put on my 30 plus year old Echo, IIRC, it cost me less than 50 bucks including labor. I use the saw blade on mine more than the string. Replaced the string head years back with the Shindawa I think one. Makes reloads easy peasy.