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A lot of people ask me about turf maintenance, including trimmers.
I often get asked what trimmer is the best one, my answer is always the same; "none.".
Seriously, we go to a lot of trouble to have things arranged such that a trimmer is not needed. They are, IMHO, the single biggest waste of time, money and labour there is in turf care. Not to mention likely the most likely to injure a worker.
Mulch, edge, glcosulfates (Round-up, etc.), pave, anything except having to use one of those infernal contraptions.
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Murf did I spel everthing right?
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You shoor enuf did. 
There's a bit of a difference between Round-up and the other stuff.
Round-up (glycosulphates) were designed for agricultural use, i.e. to knock down vegetation prior to planting a food crop, therefore long life in the soil is not a desired result. It is intended purely to kill what it's sprayed on, then biodegrade rapidly.
If you want long lasting result there is other stuff much better suited for that.
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Jeff, there's a trick to it, you need to either silver solder or braze the ends of the stainless steel cable before you use it in a string trimmer.
We have commercial walk-behind units that are made using a vertical shaft lawn mower engine and they run the same thing, very fine stainless steel cable with the ends soldered.
Kenny, I couldn't tell you, the only stuff we use is glycosulphates, mostly to kill off the fields before planting a new crop of turf.
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Jeff, about the last 1" of the steel cable is brazed or silver soldered. I've seen more than that done, but it looses a lot of it's flexibility, at that point it acts more like a pivoting bush hog blade than a piece of line.
You need big horsepower (3+ hp) to run that type of line.
They seem to last about a season if you can keep from hitting rocks or other hard stuff. Wood and brush doesn't seem to bother them much, but the hard stuff breaks up the hard end and they unravel.
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The missus and the dogs and I were out for a stroll a while back and saw a guy up the road from here was trying something I've never seen before as far as trimming.
He was walking along the fence line (galv. chain link) with a big blow torch in hand, the kind roofers use to seal the cracks, 250,000 BTU propane fed by a 20 pound tank.
I stopped to ask him about it and he claims that just a few seconds of heat will kill the top of the grass blades leaving the lower part unaffected. He said he singes the tops one week, then comes along a week or so later after the dead part is dry and actually burns off the dead material. He claims it works even better than cutting because the burnt edge slows the growth rate of the remaining blade of grass.
Clever idea if it works I guess.
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I've seen (and done it myself) for weeds in driveways and patios and such, but never to control grass in a lawn.
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Murf, if flame-singing grass stunted growth, I wonder if the principle could be adapted to a wide, towbehind boom affair that would horizontally produce a controlled flame for golf courses greens.
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I'm sure it would, but it would never give that perfectly clipped to pool-table flat look they demand.
We have one division that does nothing but get called in for extra support when golf courses are hosting big tournaments. It's not uncommon in those cases, especially when they're playing 'extended hours', early starts and late (sometimes under lights) finishes that we are asked to cut the greens twice a day!
Even the fairways get treated specially, we have special attachments under the mower called "stripers" that do nothing but make that 'ball diamond' stripe pattern. It can even be turned on & off so you can get the pattern perfect.
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