(OT) 4 stroke gas engine weed trimmers.

Are they any good, better than 2 stroke.I don't do any weed trimming,
but I think I like little bitty 4 stroke engines.I don't like to fiddle
with finiky 2 stroke engines.I am thinking about buying one of those 4
strokers just for the heck of it.
cuhulin

wrote:
> Are they any good, better than 2 stroke.I don't do any weed trimming,
> but I think I like little bitty 4 stroke engines.I don't like to fiddle
> with finiky 2 stroke engines.I am thinking about buying one of those 4
> strokers just for the heck of it.
> cuhulin
>
I don't know the answer, but I recently gave away my
2 cycle weed eater and air blower.
They worked great but I got tired of being covered
in oil film after using them.
Smokey, filthy things they were.
I use all electric now, including the chain saw.

On 2011-03-19, Paul in Houston TX > wrote:
> wrote:
>> Are they any good, better than 2 stroke.I don't do any weed trimming,
>> but I think I like little bitty 4 stroke engines.I don't like to fiddle
>> with finiky 2 stroke engines.I am thinking about buying one of those 4
>> strokers just for the heck of it.
>> cuhulin
>>
> I don't know the answer, but I recently gave away my
> 2 cycle weed eater and air blower.
> They worked great but I got tired of being covered
> in oil film after using them.
> Smokey, filthy things they were.
> I use all electric now, including the chain saw.

Modern ones don't do that. At least the professional landscaper grade
stuff.

> wrote in message
...
> Are they any good, better than 2 stroke.I don't do any weed trimming,
> but I think I like little bitty 4 stroke engines.I don't like to fiddle
> with finiky 2 stroke engines.I am thinking about buying one of those 4
> strokers just for the heck of it.
> cuhulin

I have never seen anyone around here use a 4 stroke weed trimmer
except on those heavy string trimmers on wheels. For a portable,
the two strokes are lighter for the same horsepower, I guess.

I have an Echo two stroke. It starts easily, has plenty of power, doesnt
seem to smoke very much. Better than a cane knife.

Those plastic weed trimmer lines and plastic weed trimmer blades.They
wear down and cover your yard with PLASTIC.
Weeds and vines and stuff, I put on my leather gloves (some of those
thingys have briars/thorns on them) and I get one of my old hack saws
and I hack away.I am not a computer hacker though.
cuhulin

wrote:
>
> Those plastic weed trimmer lines and plastic weed trimmer blades.They
> wear down and cover your yard with PLASTIC.
> Weeds and vines and stuff, I put on my leather gloves (some of those
> thingys have briars/thorns on them) and I get one of my old hack saws
> and I hack away.I am not a computer hacker though.

I always wondered where the "hack" in hacksaw came from.



> cuhulin

''Hacksaw'' Dugan could tell you.
cuhulin

Some areas around my house/yard area, those West Nile Mosquitos.There
are thousands/maybe millions of them.Is there some sort of
powder/whatever that you might know of that I can buy somewhere to drive
them away?
cuhulin

> wrote in message
...
> Some areas around my house/yard area, those West Nile Mosquitos.There
> are thousands/maybe millions of them.Is there some sort of
> powder/whatever that you might know of that I can buy somewhere to drive
> them away?
> cuhulin

You can avoid a lot of them by draining ditches, old tires, whatever will
hold stagnant water. These guys, IIRC ,lay eggs in those places and then
whenever it rains, they hatch out and attack.

You can also dribble diesel or oil based insecticide on the surface of
larger watery sources.

I used to have a small fogger that you could buy at most hardware stores.
It was powered by a small propane bottle and would fog hard insecticide
over a wide area. There was also a system so that you could inject the
same insecticide into your mower exhaust system to get a fog.

Be sure you drench yourself with Off or some other good insect repellant
before you go out.

You cant guarantee that you wont get bitten by a diseased mosquito,
but you can sure improve your odds.

In Houston we had not only West Nile, but also the mosquitos that
carry St. Louis encephalitis. Both can be deadly.

I will ask at a local yard and garden center store if they have
something.I think we also have the St.Louis encephalitis mosquitos too.
cuhulin