hi there like to talk to you today about how to run a weed eater okay so i want to
go for more of a beginner thing so people can know how to run a weed eater and i might go
over different types of weed eaters as well so I would say one of the most important things is for
you to wear safety glasses hearing protection gloves might really come in handy because you
might have sharp things hitting your hands and you just may thank me later I would also highly
recommend long pants and shoes and I personally like to have even like a long sleeve shirt you
might have rocks or different things fling out at you and it can just be a lot better down the road
so there's different types of weed eaters i have an echo right here
now people may call them a weed eater a string trimmer all different types of things
weedeater string trimmer or whatever so right here one of the most important things to do before you're
going to start running your weed eater is to look at your weed eater and see if it has gas first
so I did a video on how to mix fuel for gas I might put a link in the description on how to
make two-stroke gasoline so you want to check and make sure it has gas now this one does here's how
to open the gas right here and I may do a put in a link another video on how to start a weed eater or
a string trimmer how to start a string tumor okay but so you got to be able to start it so you make
sure it has gas and I actually have a pre-mixed solution right here I did a video I might put a
link in the description of how to make it okay another thing is you're going to need string
so i have string sitting right here because you're going to go through it I also did a video
on how to replace the string in a string trimmer weed ear now some string trimmers wheat ears may
have it might be like a one piece two piece or something like there's different things
but i did it already I wanted to go ahead and they put a link in the description
so you got to be able to put the string in now what happens is as you're using it the string gets
messed up and gets shorter and shorter so what you do is you turn it on and you bump the bottom
against the ground while it's spinning and if you have string in there it should keep coming out
if you have too much then it may not work very well so we covered you need gasoline you need to
start it and I would say another thing is you should know there's different types there's a
propane string trimmer weed eater which is pretty cool actually there's a gas i think there's even
a four stroke there's there's two cycle gas I think there's even a four stroke one maybe several
there's battery operate and there's electric now for some people an electric and a battery
might be all they need they might live in a tiny little area where they just have this little tiny
bit of yard and that may be everything they need for me we need a gas one it has a lot of power
and it's just really it suits our family better so i want to go ahead and start it up and run it but
um one thing is you need to know so as it spins I I did a video on how to not get as dirty too for a
weeding string trimmer so you need to know is as it spins you can kind of like depending on which
way you do it so if you do it and you tilt it this way then all the dirt may fling back at you okay
but if you do it and you lean it this way then the dirt may not fling back at you quite as much okay
so little tips another thing is you can use it as an edger it may not be quite as good as
like a metal blade edger i wanted to uh maybe put a link in the video on how to edge with it but you
are going to probably go through a lot of string doing it possibly more and then there's ones with
the curved shaft ones with the straight strap this is the shaft it's more personal preference
but you kind of want to when you do it if you want to make it look all smooth you need to be careful
on your angle okay if you kind of dig it down too much it's going to probably have a really chopped
look so let's go ahead and turn it on i want to go ahead and put some hearing protection in and let
you see me doing a little bit and pay attention to what I'm doing it i might go ahead and dig up the
grass a little bit just to show you what it looks like how it doesn't look good and then when I make
it look more smooth so I want to go ahead and show you both ways like a wrong way to do it and then
a good way to do it and um I might put in links in the description for like hearing protection
you might even want to wear earmuffs and you know I used to do landscaping lawn care and honestly
like uh you might even want to get a whole face shield I used to use a face shield so here we go lets come over here
I want to cut it and make it smooth first so here we go
Now see how that's really smooth, that looks really smooth
Now I want to do it more the wrong way and show what it looks like ok
see how I just messed the grass up like that that that's what you want to avoid
I'll probably have a link in the description if you want to use your weed eater string
trimmer as an edger so I love you all please subscribe to our notifications love y'all and bye