Echo GRASS/WEED TRIMMER BRUSHCUTTER and CLEARING SAW Curved Shaft Units, Warning Danger, Trimming

The basic cutting actions pictured are: Trimming, scything, scalp- ing and lawn edging. These actions are as follows

TRIMMING: This is feeding the trimmer carefully into the material you wish to cut. Tilt the head slightly to direct debris away from you. If cutting up to a barrier such as a fence, wall or tree, approach from an angle where any debris ricocheting off the barrier will fly away from you. Move the line head slowly until the grass is cut right up to the barrier, but do not jam (overfeed) the line into the barrier. If trimming up to wire mesh or chain link fencing, be careful to feed only up to the wire. If you go too far, the line will snap off around the wire.

Trimming can be done to cut through weed stems one at a time. Place the trimmer line head near the bottom of the weed—never high up, which could cause the weed to chatter and catch the line. Rather than cut the weed right through, just use the very end of the line to wear through the stem slowly.

SCYTHING: This is the cutting or mowing of large grassy areas by sweeping or swinging the trimmer in a level arc. Use a smooth, easy motion. Do not try to hack or chop down the grass. The unit can be hand-held for scything. Scything is also very comfortable to do with the unit on a shoulder harness. Tilt the line head to direct the debris away from you on the scything stroke. Then return without cutting grass for another stroke. If you are well protected and do not care whether some debris is thrown in your direction, you may scythe in both directions.

SCALPING and EDGING: Both of these are done with the line head tilted at a steep angle. Scalping is removing top growth, leaving the earth bare. Edging is trimming the grass back where it has spread over a sidewalk or driveway. During both edging and scalping, hold the unit at a steep angle and in a position where the debris, and any dislodged dirt and stone, will not come back towards you even if it ricochets off the hard surface. Although the pictures show how to edge and scalp, every operator must find for himself the angles which suit his body size and cutting situation.

WARNING DANGER

Do not use a blade for edging or scalping.

CURVED SHAFT

UNITS

TRIMMING

DEBRIS

KNIFESIDE

RAISED

ANGLE TO

WALL

TILT ANGLES

SCYTHING

SCALPING

PROPERSHIELD

POSITION

EDGING

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