Caustic Burno":1nxqxcuz said:
Heck fire your trimming a driveway not cleaning out a fenceline in a pasture. You bring that weed whacker here you better have a pup tent, sack lunch and a coleman latern were not going to see you for a while. Much less what the yopauns, saw brairs and wait a minute vines are going to do to your weed whacker. I like to stand back and see that weed whacker go over a nest of yellow jackets or bumble bees, bet that be one heck of a horse race.
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caustic,
Another context..we don't have 10's or 100s of miles of fence line...obviously it wouldn't work for you ...big fellow ranchers in Texas...prarie ranchers and so on...which probably doesn't represent a whole bunch of folks here including us.
Our weed cutters take out everything up to a certain growth point..depending on what it is...and that does include the vines. For a larger need other approaches obviously would be needed. Yes we have to watch for the yellow jackets....and BB's...but that is no different than other functions so we are use to keeping a weary eye out. The topic was not grown up fence rows...2-3 years..unless I missed a point...it was cleaning fence rows annually as my comments were meant for.
We have had sections that got away from us and the fence needed replacement so the fence went and the row was bush hogged. I should perhaps prefixed my comments with ...for annual fence row maintenance.
LOL on the driveways...we let a svc. do the driveways and small areas..they have the smaller tools...wouldn't work on the bigger stuff.
The program works for us...if it doesn't work for other folks...try something else. Many different ways have been talked about so most all of us have a choice...I guess.