I’ve owned one of these for years now. I agree with most of your points and many of the comments. If I owned a landscaping company, I would not recommend this type of edger because of the simple fact that it takes too long edge. It will give you a beautiful edge, but time we all know that time equals money in business. I won’t allow my wife to mow the front lawn because I am particular about patterns and striping, but she loves to help and she edges while I weed eat. I know for a fact that she could not control a weed eater to edge so this works perfectly for her. I’ve learned over the years that the starting problems are actually because of the terrible gas additives and the oil. I change the oil about once every month and a half or so during during the summer and add octane booster to the fuel. I flush and purge the fuel system and add a preservative for winterizing. I never use gas that’s more than a month old in any of my equipment anymore. Ever since I started changing the oil more frequently than required, our edger starts right up usually in one or two pulls. I did buy the electric starter to help it start in the past now we rarely use it. Honestly I started buying better equipment like Echo or Stihl investment continues to pay off. Thanks for a great video and commentary!

I'm in the lawn maintenance business, and I wouldn't have one of those if it was free. As you mentioned, it's another heavy item to carry around in the trailer, and another maintenance rabbit hole. It cuts a straighter edge than most people can do with a string trimmer, but it also can chip concrete or, more commonly, break sprinkler heads that are up against the walk. You're right: an attachment for the trimmer is the way to go. I have several trimmers: two with string, one with a brush cutter blade, and another that I keep the edger attachment on. Most people who cut their own grass would probably get tired of swapping the string spool out for the edger attachment every week.

enjoyed the video. keep 'em coming.

cutting concrete with it

On some of the larger edgers you can rotate the head 90° and use it like a brush cutter. I have a small lawn business, and I prefer using a walk behind edger. I like the Weedeater/Craftsman (made by Husqvarna) small edger, but use a bigger one also. I also use a stick attachment for going around tight curves. All in all, they're a lot easier with my bad shoulders.

I grew up using a version of one of these. We had a corner yard in a neighborhood, with sidewalk the entire way around. We did not do regular edging with a trimmer - in fact, I think we had an electric corded one most of my childhood. We would use the edger one or two times a year to do the edges. The yard was Zoysia (sp?) grass, and very thick. With my minimal edging now, I just use a trimmer, but I can see why a home owner that wants a nice edge might use one of these style machines. Or someone with a shoulder issue or physical ailment.

I have one of these and it works pretty well once you get it started. I give it a short shot of carb cleaner in the air filter and I no longer have hard starting issues.

Our Viasat install guy (rural area satellite internet) had one for laying the Coax cable from dish-to-house. Worked pretty well

my dad had a couple of different ones throughout the years, but never one this small. Currently it’s a 5hp Briggs& Stratton walk behind and i would rather use an edger than a string trimmer. We have so much edging against concrete that takes 1.4 hrs to complete.

Good morning! For me the only non edger use for these is as a boat anchor. Using a stick edger is so much easier than one of these. I dont think your age is even a limiting factor for stick edgers either. My neighbor is close to 80 and he still uses his echo srm2100 with a stick edger attachment to edge his driveway. Great video!

Other than space for storage, my biggest gripe with this model is the diaphragm carb. You can change the oil which requires a skinny funnel and some towels to let the oil overflow on. Basically everything you said makes them interesting. I sold mine for$40 and the guy was tickled. Going to try the silly attachments which have limitations but take up less space.

I worked in the lawn care business for a few years and had this style of edger on the trailer for a few of those years. They are good for long stretches of sidewalk but they are difficult to use on the curb side and take more time to set up than a handheld edger. Overall not the most time efficient although I do have on at home. Would avoid if time is money.

I have a gas edger and an electric edger the gas one I am still trying to get use to how it works compared to an electric when you just press the trigger and it goes but the McLane edger Still needs work on it.

Maybe a string trimmer if you could get the right size to fit with the height adjustment stuff. Blessings!

I like my electric edger because you can dig shallow trenches for amateur radio coax and antenna radials. It's also easier for me to edge my concrete drive, and does a neater job.

Works good for cutting concert.

Hey bro what's up? This was an interesting topic as I use a string trimmer to maintain my yard but edging dosen't fit into my criteria as we cut our lawns differently here in the Caribbean compared to you all in USA.

They use to be great. The problem is a trimmer with an edger shaft is the way to go. I would not discard one of I had one of I had one just for show and tell.

I use a trimmer 😂 What the an F1 style starter? I use my air wrench to start my generator once in a while. Pretty good video.

Hey I just got a 90s sears craftsmen chainsaw and the 2 cycle engine feels gummy what can I use to help get more loose it moves right now but it's been sitting for a long time

Good Engine for a minibike

Garden tillers suffer from this exact same question

My bro in laws 29cc Craftsman 4 cycle edger sounds like it's 2 cycling at full throttle, is that normal for these engines?

The only other thing I can think of with this machine is taking up space in your garage or shed.

Another use for an edger is exercise while walking up and down the driveway or sidewalk

I found one of these, used it for 10 minutes and the belt broke