Pruning the easy way!!!!

[K. L. McReynolds]

Yearly rose bush/ornamental grass/etc. trimming usually takes several hours with hand loppers and pruners.

Getting too old to bend over, so had a better idea. Have a Homelite weed eater. No blades to fit, so I bought a 5&1/2" cordless saw blade(80 tooth? 120 tooth?) with a 10mm arbor hole. Adapted that to the weedeater.

Less than 5 minutes and DONE!!!!!!!


Took out the string carraige:





Less than 5 minutes:

[SawDat]

That is utterly terrifying looking!

Hopefully you've checked that the blade is rated for the RPM that weedwacker is putting out.

Just wear steel toed boots.

[MarkSingleton]

Lots of folks make a production, almost a religous experience, out of pruning roses.
While I still do mine by hand, I always recall what I heard a professional rose person
say on the radio one time. She said that they have many thousands of roses that
require annual pruning. They do it with a sickle bar on a large tractor.

[Patsfan]

Mac, you were lucky.

Don't rely on lucky for your wellbeing.

Use a proper weedeater rated for a proper brush cutter.
or something like this:

http://www.grassgator.com/Grass%20Gator%204680.html

the blade shield on that homelite won't stop the shrapnel you are likely to produce.

[Herb G]

My Stihl weedwacker has an aux blade you can get for trimming with.
https://www.stihlusa.com/products/trimme...nd-blades/

[JosephP]

If you're gonna do that on regular basis, step up to the real thing and get a Clearing saw!  I worked with a guy who used e-bay table saw blades on his.  they were rated for the RPMs.  His woods is on very rocky soil...it didn't sound as ugly when he hit rocks with a $6 blade!

[K. L. McReynolds]

None of the off the shelf accessories fit the HomeLite. Cannot afford to buy a $400 something.

I know it is dangerous. I have safety equipment. I also repaired equipment very similar to the setup I made for 15+ years. Saw blade is a single piece, no slits, no inserts, no carbide. I'll wager it is like the blades on that equipment. I don't even run the HomeLite at full speed unloaded.

I know from experience how to start a cut so the trimmer does not kick back.

Thanks for caring. Really.

[Anak]

I love a blade on a weedeater (and yes, I have the $400 weedeater that is rated for it, comes with the safety features, yada yada).  Makes short work of brush.

I will grant it is scary to think of what it could do to your legs though.

[tomsteve]

for some reason I can hear the phrase,"hold my beer while I start this."

[Cecil]

My Stihl weedwacker has an aux blade you can get for trimming with.
https://www.stihlusa.com/products/trimme...nd-blades/

Yep, that is what I use.  Works great, been doing it for ~20 years.