snowdude 44 Posted July 21, 2014 Share Posted July 21, 2014 Yes they are. I use a hybrid system that is I have the blade on but also the plastic cutring strips. You can cut a much larger area than using just the blade and is really good on soft weeds but the blade is needed for the tough stuff. Yeah they will cut through small trees and bamboo they are very good. Link to post Share on other sites
Chriselle 158 Posted July 22, 2014 Share Posted July 22, 2014 End of a nice, long weed-whacking weekend. Now I am become death, the destroyer of weeds. AKA....Agent Orange.. Link to post Share on other sites
DumbStick 13 Posted July 25, 2014 Author Share Posted July 25, 2014 Oh well, over to you weeds. Let's see how much you grow in 3 weeks!! Link to post Share on other sites
the snowboarding vicar 1 Posted July 25, 2014 Share Posted July 25, 2014 I hope you took some "before" photos to compare with "after". Link to post Share on other sites
DumbStick 13 Posted July 25, 2014 Author Share Posted July 25, 2014 Didn't need to tsv.... "before" is close to no weeds! Spend a few hours seeing that that yesterday. Link to post Share on other sites
DumbStick 13 Posted August 26, 2014 Author Share Posted August 26, 2014 My garden had turned into something of a jungle after 3 weeks away! Lots of the weeds were 30cm above ground and some them had over 50cm 'worm-like' things going on underground as well. They were very kimochi warui! Flowers survived and grew more bushy. Trees seem ok too. Actually just one or two very small new leaves seem to have appeared, this is the first sign of recovery after being rudely taken from previous home to our garden. Gambare! Got it mostly cleared now though and looking something like again. Link to post Share on other sites
BagOfCrisps 24 Posted August 26, 2014 Share Posted August 26, 2014 Some good exercise for you there, DumbStick. Link to post Share on other sites
foreversnow 5 Posted August 26, 2014 Share Posted August 26, 2014 Another 2 weeks my spring cottage garden is going to be SPECTACULAR If I can keep the Cockatoo's, wallabies, hares and now deer out of it :angry: !! Link to post Share on other sites
Tubby Beaver 209 Posted August 26, 2014 Share Posted August 26, 2014 Hares n deer make good eating Link to post Share on other sites
snowdude 44 Posted August 26, 2014 Share Posted August 26, 2014 As do pheasants. Quite a few of them around here. Our neighbours gives us deer meat when in swason. Link to post Share on other sites
Chriselle 158 Posted August 26, 2014 Share Posted August 26, 2014 Oh....I could go for some venison tenderloin right about now...yum. Rabbit stew would do the trick as well. I've never had pheasant despite using their colourful feathers in my work. Link to post Share on other sites
pie-eater 207 Posted August 27, 2014 Share Posted August 27, 2014 Do tell us more about it snowhuntress. Link to post Share on other sites
SKI 15 Posted August 27, 2014 Share Posted August 27, 2014 These underground worm-like 50cm long things sound pretty gruesome! Link to post Share on other sites
kkk 7 Posted August 28, 2014 Share Posted August 28, 2014 We need pics! Link to post Share on other sites
DumbStick 13 Posted September 4, 2014 Author Share Posted September 4, 2014 Scarier than the worm-like weed bits was the snake that I saw in the garden yesterday evening! Tons of frogs jumping about which is cool. Link to post Share on other sites
griller 9 Posted September 4, 2014 Share Posted September 4, 2014 Maybe a few less frogs than before! Link to post Share on other sites
Tubby Beaver 209 Posted September 4, 2014 Share Posted September 4, 2014 Haha! and a full snake Link to post Share on other sites
snowdude 44 Posted September 4, 2014 Share Posted September 4, 2014 I have seen about 8 to 10 snakes around this way a few on my fields one in my greenhouse and two in our garden. Nothing like the 3ft one that hissed at me last year at my old field. Link to post Share on other sites
frannyo 2 Posted September 4, 2014 Share Posted September 4, 2014 I don't get on well with snakes. Link to post Share on other sites
snowdude 44 Posted September 4, 2014 Share Posted September 4, 2014 I dont mind snakes and dont mind to pick them up as long as I know they are not posionous. In Japan the only posionous snake is the 'habu' which only lives in Okinawa and is fatal if not treated quickly. Others like the ao daisho and shima hebi that live throughout Japan if they bite you it is very painful and the area bitten will swell like a football, but is not fatal and you will make a full recovery, just bloody painful. Both of those snakes I have seen around here. If you see them dont touch them they will snap at you and you will know it if they bite you. Normally they hide under an outside boiler under a log, somewhere cool and dark and the space can often appear much smaller than the snake that comes out of it. Non poisionous pet snakes are cool though. As a child in England in summer we used to play with grass snakes, they are totally harmless. Link to post Share on other sites
Metabo Oyaji 71 Posted September 4, 2014 Share Posted September 4, 2014 There are also mamushi, which are poisonous, though not usually fatal. Link to post Share on other sites
snowdude 44 Posted September 4, 2014 Share Posted September 4, 2014 Yes forgot about those, they too are very painful if you get bitten by them. Link to post Share on other sites
Metabo Oyaji 71 Posted September 4, 2014 Share Posted September 4, 2014 Never been bitten by one, though have bitten one. Link to post Share on other sites
pie-eater 207 Posted September 4, 2014 Share Posted September 4, 2014 Do tell more! Link to post Share on other sites
snowdude 44 Posted September 4, 2014 Share Posted September 4, 2014 Never been bitten by one, though have bitten one. Yes do tell, what you mean. Link to post Share on other sites
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