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I bought an extra blade expecting to tear up at least one blade trying to get the hang of it. Not necessary, I can’t imagine damaging the thick metal blade, that doesn’t need sharpening. We did find that when doing this, since you’re pushing the thing over sod and such, it will lift the entire machine up a little bit. So I set it for 1 1/4″ depth and did the first run, and then repeated it at the recommended 1″ depth to clean up the little bits that were left. Worked like a charm. Someone already mentioned NOT using this when the ground is really wet.
One thing that’s nice is the adjustable depth but don’t count on it being accurate. As soon as the blade wears some, it’s worthless for that. The sparks may come out when your blade hits concrete, but what else would you expect? The product is easy to operate and has enough of oomph to get a trenching/edging job a breeze. I have used a gas edger for years. In an effort to appease my “Green” wife, when it came time to replace the old edger I went with the B&D after reading all the reviews.
This unit wasn’t inexpensive…paid about $80.00. I’m going to spend a couple hundred and but a quality edger.
The only drawback is that you can only use it in one direction, but if it does such a great job, I really don’t care. We haven’t used the trenching feature yet, but if it can trench as well as it edges, I’ll be in seventh heaven!
I hit a few, and it caused no problems! We now know we will be getting more use out of this tool in the future.
I read reviews on this particular Black and Decker model and it seemed to be the best for the price. After looking at area stores I found this one on Amazon for less money. I highly recommend the B&D Edge Hog. It’s easy to use.
It propagates by spreading tough, vine-like runners. I had these in spades creeping over my driveway and over onto the concrete rain channel gutter in front of our house.
It does this much faster than a string trimmer and the result is much cleaner. I’ve used the Edge Hog a few times when the grass has grown over the walk so much that the edger has to chew through half an inch or more of thatch. My husband (I’m the wife who’s writing the review) actually ran the edger and swept up the grass. I hadn’t edged my lawn the past two summers so the grass was really overgrown. This three-wheel model works great on straight-away edges, but is harder to use on curves. I discovered that if you tilt the edger slightly forward onto the single front wheel, you can get much better control, and the tight curves are much easier.
However, my husband insists on a gas edger at 4 times the price, so I gave it to a friend as a gift. Auto Repair Quotes.
