I am falling down that deep crevasse that only occurs in my nightmares… gardening... sorry about the woodworking genre.
When it comes to the green stuff that you ( me ) can’t smoke, I can reassure everyone I have no guilty conscience about the state of my garden, but when SWMBO threatens to withhold my vino rations, I spring to action.
I bought this particular edger back in 2020 and can only remember using it twice, so you can imagine the extent my “lawns” have captured territory over gutters, driveways and foot paths.
I don’t care if those pederstarians and dogs trip over my creepers, but when the local council threatens fines for gutter congestion, and SWMBO barks, I stand to attention.
Looked at the gutter “overflow”
and conceded that it was not pristine and may benefit from a visit by a baa-baa. Neither was the driveway immune to the invasion,
What am I trying to say? I’m leading into my justification for attributing a 5* rating for this Ryobi “stump jump plough”. Every time I look at it, it reminds me of that great Aussie invention back in 1876…
Hell, I feel like RC with some of his out of left field trivia infomation.
No, I haven’t been smokin’ for the association to the “stump jumper”, but when I dropped one of the wheels into the gutter,
even you may see a similar familiarity… if you squint. It is designed to run along the rim of the gutter with the left wheel running down in the gutter’s pit, while snipping the edges.
Charged up a 36V battery, slapped it into this edger and tackled that gutter,
I was chuffed by how it must have shared my hate for gardening, as it made minced meat out of the creepers and kicked them into the gutter,
I think I saw the gutter blush as it was now naked for the full length,
No, it didn’t take me all day to do it, the picture was taken late in the afternoon.
Now I can lodge a complaint to my council about dirty gutters.
Stupid me then decided to tackle the driveway,
without realising how far and thick that haemorrhage was. Ran the edger several times before I found where the “lawn” met the concrete,
and with quite a bit of kicking effort (not recommended in thongs) I managed to remove some of the offcut,
and eventually compromised at 95% removal,
When I look at the turf removed, I can only extoll total respect for the edger. The mess was quickly mulched with my zero-turn ride on. In defence of the difficulty in ripping up the offcut... it was thicker than the length of the blade so full severance was not achieved.
I had another one of Ryobi’s edgers (that I called the “stick”, rated 1*),
Same blade, but remembering previous use, it would have stalled (overloaded) on me ever few centimetres on this job.
This current “stump jump” edger would probably be on even par with my old petrol driven Honda Lawn Edger
that I regrettably retired for the useless Ryobi“stick”during my eco drive, which (the Honda) also used to stall quite a few times, in similar scenarios, years ago… what I’m trying to say is that this cordless edger was on par with the old petrol driven pro model.
By now my bones are aching, however, I made a video of the machine in action on smaller areas, where grass meets concrete. If you watch it, you’ll notice it gives the concrete a hammering and doesn’t miss a beat, and not only that it’s not cutting a few days growth but excavating real estate.
If you are into battery powered gardening and have some Ryobi 36V batteries, you could do worse than get this particular “curb hugging” edger.
Thanks for looking…
If your first cut is too short... Take the second cut from the longer end... LBD
thats about as sad as sad gets my friend !!! why do you f@#k with those toys ? i love my garden and i love gardening but one thing i dont waste time and money on are the mow and blow ! i pay a guy to do that so my shop isn't full of non woodworking crap. and i get no enjoyment out of mowing my lawn ! for 60.00 bucks a month i cant afford to do it myself. so while my mow and blow guy is taking care of my lawn im on the patio having my morning OJ !!!!
working with my hands is a joy,it gives me a sense of fulfillment,somthing so many seek and so few find.-SAM MALOOF.
I hate gardening, and smo... cutting grass is was top of my hate list. As my chocolate starfish has never been excessively tight (shut up Splinter), during my tenure with the ex, I mastered the avoidance of subcontracting chores that I could undertake as it gave me the opportunity to buy some great tools, and I carry that belief on today... though that "I could do" list is ever decreasing. In Richmond (Melbourne I had to do a lot of soul searching not to buy a ride-on for my lavish football field, as I would have had issue turning it around without a zero-turn. When I bough into my primitive, double block in downtown Churchill, the purchase of the Toro ride-on even took preference to organising the workshop and clearing the blocked dunny,
Call me old fashioned, but I still care for you human beans inhabiting my planet and I upgraded my petrol guzzler for the environment friendly cordless zero-turn,
You sit on your lazy rrrs in your patio drinking vino and pretend you are happy, while I sit on my ride-on and drink my vino... a few vinos and I get to chase pedestarians on it and boom-boom the bjesus out of the worms below... exercise!... but I do draw the line at edge trimming... the pain I endured doing it, I'm now passing on by posting this thread.
If your first cut is too short... Take the second cut from the longer end... LBD
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