today, I'm thinking weed whackers. through the years ive had many, lots of different brands and good and bad experiences with them. at least 15 years ago maybe more I bit the bullet and spent a half bunch of money buying the latest and greatest stihl km130. this thing has been awesome, until yesterday.
I liked it so much about 8 or so years ago when I had a pocket full of money I got another one this one was the newest km131, and it's also been great, until yesterday. this local kid that helps me out sometimes came over to help cut down the blue ribbon candidate weeds that I got growing. the 131 would not start. It flooded real bad and so I pulled the plug. cleaned it real good, checked the spark, and finally got it to run. hit smoked excessively and would not keep running properly. so we moved on to the 130. got it going but it won't idle, even after adjusting carburetor. went to the trusty YouTube search and found a whole bunch of videos about how these little 4 stroke engines that burn 2 stroke oil have a plastic cam gear that is problematic. ii'll probably do surgery on the 131 and order a carb kit for the 130 and see how it goes. then I might, maybe, sell them if I get them running properly again and get a new fangled rechargeable battery machine.
I started thinking about how easy it would be to run one of them new battery powered machines. are the days of gas powered small engine stuff numbered?
anyway, I'm just ranting. whats your experience taming the spring and summer weed growth.