August 19, 2008 / 11:41
See that's what I'm talking about Fred! Passion and Humour .
August 19, 2008 / 12:41
Fred - had the exact same experience but with one exception - I did a baseball swing with the Homelite against the corner of my house. Sell it and get a Toro rechargable. They start everytime!
August 19, 2008 / 12:49
Fred,
Do youself a favour.
Go to Crappy Tire and buy a cheap plug in electric one.
The cord is a bit of a pain in the ass. But it only takes a few minutes to do all the edgeing and then you use the cord with your inexpensive leaf blower from Crappy Tire to finish the job.
I picked a $20. weed wacker off the prize table at a golf tourny 20 years ago and it still works perfectly.
I used it yesterday.
You are not the only person who has grown to hate those things.
And I agree with you. Delyse has always been way more mature than you. Just like in my house.
It's our wives that keep us level.
Brenda has been away for a week and left me a list of jobs to do around the house.
So what did I do?
I went golfing four times.
Real smart. In about 4 hours I will have to face the music.
Maybe I'll go golfing tomorrow.
Al
August 19, 2008 / 13:15
Let me give you my piece of sh!t Homelite weed wacker so you can drive over it as well.
Or maybe between the two of them we can make one working machine. My engine works, that's not the problem... the business end with the wacker thing.
The bolt on the end strips the plastic unit with the nylon thread... and I have bought half a dozen different wacking units from 6 different stores and not one of them fits the end of my Homelite weed wacker... every package says it fits 99% of all weed wackers and the Homelite name is in the list of makes on every single package and not one of them fits my machine.
I own this piece of junk and I am out renting a weed wacker for forty friggin dollars.
The best part of your story for me Fred, is to be able to show Nancy that I am not the only guy who boils over with incompentent machinery and throws something... I have always said you're a nutcase when it comes to things like this and she would always say "that's not true, Freddie is not like that" and now she can read it for herself.
Thanks man.
August 19, 2008 / 14:30
Holy shit im on the floor I fell out of my chair laughing my ass off freddie! Nice that would have been my response to the damn thing too....
August 19, 2008 / 14:34
The kids pretty much figured you were going to throw it in the pool two weeks ago! Hey and keep the language down!
August 19, 2008 / 14:42
We've got an oil and gas mixture whacker at the cottage, what a pain in the grass that is...effing piece of crap has come close to landing in the lake!
August 19, 2008 / 14:46
Funny, when I was in the business, (landscaping/property maintenance) mine would start and run until they ran out of gas. Red hot they would still start and run all day, every day for the whole season. Had to change the spark plug 7 or 8 times in a season. The next year they were a little more temper mental. For the most part though a weed eater would last 2 years with very little problems. These were commercial units ($300-$400). In fact, I still have one from those days,(early 80's) and I'm still using it on my 1 acre lot. It's a pig to start now, (6-7 pulls) but once it's going it runs until it's runs out of gas. Fred, spend the money, get a commercial unit like a STIHL and it will last you a lifetime and then pass it on to one of your kids.
August 19, 2008 / 15:23
Poor Dol has been watching you pulling your cord to the point of exhaustion for far too long, Freddie!
August 19, 2008 / 15:49
Fred I have to say when I went to a travelling tool sale (here in the US, the company is Cummins and they travel selling stuff over the US, unloading a trailer in a rental hall and then go to the next town, don't know if they have such a thing in Canada) just over a yr ago, I was disappointed at the time that they didn't have any 'factory reconditioned' Homelite weedwackers left since my dad's chainsaw is a Homelite he bought back in the 70's and has been pretty good. I got a Craftsman one and so far so good. But Freddie 1 question, you said you were going to be working at ---- Depot. How are you going to deal with a customer wanting 1 of those?
August 19, 2008 / 16:03
Gee, it seems everybody was trying to whack weeds yesterday.!!! I just bought a Craftsman (electrical corded type) from crappy tire because the on/off switch of my 15 years old otherwise beautiful working Weed Eater is busted and nobody carries this part.
My problem was the opposite of Fred's. Mine worked too well. Let me explain: I wasn't even half finished when all of a sudden there was no more nylon line. Can you guys imagine, I used a whole spool of this stuff and I couldn't even finish the job. One nylon spool on my old one lasted more than a whole summer.
I better figure out what I did wrong or I end up taking out a loan to buy all this nylon line, not to mention the friggin inconvenience of changing the spool all the time.
August 19, 2008 / 16:32
Ha ha, that's funny Frd. I can picture you doing that. I wouldn't have lasted as long as you though. I would have pitched it over to neighbour John's a long time ago.
August 19, 2008 / 16:37
By the way, it works ok for me???
August 19, 2008 / 18:50
I have a homelite that works just fine but if it didn't I'd trash the piece of s#&^%t with my tank also. But before you do that try putting in premium gas they run a lot better with that if it doesn't work you can still trash it and lose it on the high price of our friggin gas. Oh! even better wait till Sept 1 when the price goes down bastards :)
August 19, 2008 / 23:24
Freddie,
What a fantastic post. I spit my Coke on my keyboard laughing.
Hey, you should try one of those battery powered lawn mowers out for size.
I smell a new website..."OrdinaryAverageGuyStuffReviewsByFreddieP.ca"
August 20, 2008 / 13:23
If you want a gas powered one you buy ones the pro's buy, none of that faux backyard weekend chec shirt dad trimming the frost fence line garbage. I have Sthil, had it going on 4 years, starts in two pulls , never had any trouble with the idle, easy to replace cord and easy to add attachments.
Not cheap $350.00 new back then but works like a charm.
August 21, 2008 / 11:29
Try a little preventative maintenance. Change the plug and clean the air filter...if that does not work, the little mixture screw on the carb needs adjustment....
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