I FEEL STUPID

I was spraying corn, and brought the tractor and sprayer back in to refill, went to the house to get something cool to drink, and my wife, for I love dearly, sucker punched me with the words, the string trimmer ran out of string, could you refill it? I said ya i'll do it. What I should have said is I don't know how! Then an idea popped into my head. I told her i'm not to sure where the string is (it's hanging on a nail in the shed)! She said she went to the shed and got it, it's next to the trimmer. THANKS HONEY! Now this should be an easy job, should be! But this is one of those two string heads, bought it a couple years ago, so this trimmer and I have been down this path togther before! We have mutual feelings for eachother. I am what people call a handy man, I fix my own tractors, equipment, remodeled a few rooms in the house, do electrical work, and plumbing, and so on. But you think I can put string in a trimmer and make the damm thing work, eventuality. Anyone ever mess with these things? In the accesories catolog, there is a roatary head with three plastic blades, I think it says it is for people who are to stupid to figure out how to refill string in there wonderful head. Thats me! Anyone have these things, if so please tell me i'm not alone!

Just bought a new one when I was home on leave. Took me 15 minutes to get the stupid thing open. Even with reading the manual!

best method for trimming - Roundup!:^) String trimmers are a pain in the...well I will choose to be nice.

I like the Echo "weedeater". DON"T get one with the individual pre-cut "strings".Just my opinion

I used that method until I got married, the wife was not impressed with the wonderful job it did! At least she runs the trimmer!

Oh, I can top "feeling stupid" and go straight to the head of the class on being stupid. Years back had a weed eater that ran out of string countless times and refilled countless times. Was always a pain in the rear to start though, and this time was exceptionally hard starting, but got it going after plenty of sweat. Then it happened. It ran out of string. OK, I reloaded it, winding her up and set out to use it. Needed to bump out more string, so bumped, bumped, bumped and no string. OK, I flipped it and pulled some out because must've been too tight when I reloaded. A while later, needed more string, so bumped, bumped, bumped and same thing all over again. I did that a few times until I lost my cool and threw it like a javelin through the air while it was still running. Naturally the motor broke off and so did the kill switch, so there sat the running motor spinning like a top in the grass, and it was running good too, best it ever had. I grabbed it and pulled the plug wire and killed it. I wasn't very happy, things weren't going so great. I walked over and sat on the porch right where I sat when I restrung it. Guess what was right next to me when I sat down? The bump, bump, bump spring that I forgot to put back into it when I restrung it.

So you feel stupid? Well, I'm at the back of the class wearing that dunce hat. I own the dunce hat, but will rent it out on occasion.

Mark

I'm going to look at a trimmer this morning. Tried to trim 700' of road ditch in front of the house that the township screwed up so bad ou don't dare get a tractor near it. This "new trimmer" will have a 7' bar on it.

Tom,
No, you're not alone. I, too, consider myself somewhat handy. But a movie clip of me reloading a string trimmer could be a YouTube hit. Seems like the job takes 3 hands. Mine is a 2-string model, so the first one I do seems to want to unwind/tangle while working on the 2nd string. I try to be careful and not overlap the "windings" so the string will feed out easily, but it always seems to get tangled somehow and invariably when I'm halfway done with my trimming and I try to bump out some more string, it won't feed. That's one of the reasons I only trim every other cutting.

You are not stupid. Those things are designed to make you crazy.

We had a two string trimmer that we could never get rewound with two strings, so just ran it with one.

Thing finally quit working and sat in the garage for about 5 or 6 years. I cleaned our garage last week and put it and a non-running push lawn mower out on the curb.

Guess what! As I suspected, by time I got home from work the next day they were gone and it wasn't a trash pick up day.

Whoever removed those non-working items saved me a lot of hassle. Thank you!

You know, that guy with the pitchfork you DON'T want to meet first thing after you die.

Seriously, I can rewind those things, but then I have to pull the head apart when I need to get the string to come out. I wonder if it is possible to get enough tension on the string rewinding the head by hand.

Well Tom, I thought you were gonna end your story by saying that you got so engrossed in rethreading the trimmer, that you forgot about re-filling the sprayer and ran the well dry.

Now THAT would make me feel stupid!!

Those string trimmers make all of us feel stupid.

Paul

Try rewinding the spring on a small engine when the starter rope breaks. It's worth the $20 to take it to a shop to get done. Dave

I'm always glad that STUPID isn't a hanging offence

i have a huskarvarna and after doen it once can restring it in 10 min. just put one end in little hole and follow arrows snap back together.easyest one i ever did its a double string one too has things to snap string in to hold it for you

I do have an Ecko with the spring loaded head that you just use short strings in. I just cut my own out of a big spool. I love it. You only have two 10" strings to stick into the spring loaded holder. I use .95 square line and I can do the whole yard on two or four strings.
I hate those auto bump heads.

Thats not stupid! Stupid would have been starting the refill process before working on the trimmer. Only to find the sprayer in a bog when you return!!!