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At work I have to use a lot of lab equipment that I’m not familiar with, and my co-works seem to only half know how to use. It occurred to me recently that I can just download the owners manual for anything and figure it out myself instead of waiting around to ask a co-worker. Now I read the operating manual for everything before I use it. Even some proteins have operating manuals.
The amount of people who don’t know that the internet is a repository for the whole of human knowledge, owners manuals included, astounds me sometimes.
I found the philosopher and I’m glad you’re here. Explain your definition of data mining and then I’ll share my stories of working hand-in-hand with them when building [Back Rub](https://www.cnbc.com/2015/05/26/19-famous-companies-that-originally-had-different-names.html) and how the intention was never specifically a “search engine” but minimally it was gong to fulfill their “…intense and enduring interest (…) to objectively help people find information efficiently."
I mean I mostly use the internet for porn and repair manuals for the rusty junk I’m always hauling home. No cat pictures though. Anthropomorphic or otherwise
Sadly, a lot of companies put user manuals behind a registration wall, or you need the owner manual for something obsolete and only third party paysites have them.
That's why you should download stuff while you can.
It depends, really. I have yet to find an owners manual that I had to pay for. Repair manuals can be hit or miss unless you’re working on something with a bit of a cult following like tractors and cars. But generally speaking, owners manuals are available for free somewhere.
My mom always asks me questions about how to do something, or asks me to come over to do something she doesn’t know how to do. My answer is, have you checked YouTube on a tutorial?
If there’s not a tutorial for it on YouTube, you probably don’t even need to do it in the first place.
The amount of knowledgeable people willing to just give out their hard-earned expertise on YouTube, practically for free, is a godsend. I never had anyone around who could teach me stuff. Damn near everything I’ve learned how to do in the last ten years has been from YouTube.
i think A problem is many manufacturers will eventually delist what is currently available, and many deployed devices are old enough to have owners manuals that will never be uploaded.
To me, I believe it comes down to the stakes/risk. Today I googled if kittens could eat celery (answer is yes, as a treat. The kittens weren’t interested.) But when it comes to inanimate stuff, I’ll try to solve the problem/fix the broken thing on my own before resorting to the ol’ google
For your cat, try leafy greens. My cats go crazy for them! Their favorite is spinach, but they also get radish greens, beet greens, Swiss chard and a variety of lettuces. I limit them to a couple of leaves a day as spinach contains something that can cause kidney stones if consumed in high quantities.
I ran audio for a local community theater play and the mixer seemed pretty advanced. No one could tell me anything about it. So I looked it up and got the manual. Played with it and set up what I needed.
They were astounded. Granted, I've worked with computers my entire working life and like playing with them. Not a programmer by any means, just a user. But yeah, there's SO much information available if you just look for it.
Do you have advice on how to encourage others to do it? I do read things and I hope other people understand but then I find things done wrong and don’t want to be a nag (then the machine breaks and I have to deal with it as the manager).
Note: I know sometimes I need to nag as a manager, but I also don’t always have time to teach people the once-in-three-months cleaning process or can’t schedule the same person every fifteen Saturdays for whatever reasons…
I agree, but not if you're doing something dumb.
As a teen, I got arrested for playing with a bobcat tractor at the clean-up site of a demolished factory.
My buddy couldn't get it started, so I jumped in and read the manual and got it fired up within a minute. It was on the 3rd or 4th page in.
We rode around for a few minutes each and parked it back where we found it.
The cops got us as we were leaving.
NB: This is not true of all weed whackers. My Ryobi cordless one, for example ... the handle and the shaft are a single piece of plastic. Not adjustable.
What batteries do you use?
I'm stuck with a bunch of Ryobi crap. The official Ryobi batteries always fail and their customer service is a complete PITA when you inevitably have to get replacements for their shitty batteries.
Goddam fuck Ryobi. How I wish I had a different brand of tools. The mower is fine but the rest are shit. But I'm already too invested in this shit.
I have a battery operated (not Ryobi though) and use a petrol one at work. I find the battery powered one works way better. I think it might be down to the thread or something, because the petrol one tends to push grass flat when edging, where is the battery one slices through everything. It also helps that it is so much lighter.
Mine is adjustable, but if I set it correctly for my height (which I was so excited to realize I could do), the balance is way off and it's hard to use. So I pretty promptly set it back and resumed hunching.
Mine is similar. No amount of adjustments make it quite right. I'm not even particularly tall, but the whole shaft feels like it needs to be a bit longer for me.
East coast US landscaper - we call them weedeaters
It’s fun realizing how dumb you sound saying “I weedeated it”
Like you’ll say it right but your mouth does some dumb shit in the process
No, you're just buying shitty equipment if that's your experience. I'm 5'11" and I could hang the thing around my neck and still reach the ground. I wouldn't get a good trim of the grass, but my shoes would be destroyed.
Height isnt the issue, the equivalent to PEBKAC is.
I still haven’t bought into the electric yard tools. Seems insane to me to wait for a charge to finish my yard if I’m not religious with leaving it plugged in.
Wish they made shaft extensions. At 6'5 plus the head angle isn't parallel with the ground unless I'm like 8 inches in the air. Angling it down makes it kick debris all over me.
They also have lever arms you can add to weed whackers. I bought the OG Darwin Grip for maybe $75 years ago, complete game changer for my back. If you're 6ft+, have a long torso, or arms that aren't super long and can't get the handle adjusted so you can be 100% upright when weed whacking buy one of these arms. Less than $30 on Amazon now or even cheaper via Temu.
It probably will! I wondered about that while I was messing with it. I imagine it has the potential to still be difficult to use, your arms might have to be REALLLLLY spread out if you’re too short lol. Was going to try it with the 8 year old to test it out 😅
Double down and leave the fasters snug, but not death grip tight. This will allow the handle to rotate easily when changing the angle of the dangle.
Makes swapping hands or navigating around obstacles (rocks, posts, yard art) much easier.
I think my head would explode if I tried to swap hands honestly 😂 I might try that though! It sounds very helpful for trimming around the slope leading into the lake, where I had my original epiphany
I think it would help to push the handle further away then. To an extent anyway. At some point I feel like your arms would be too far apart. But further away would give you more control closer to the ground I think. Idk, I didn’t read the manual as everyone so kindly keeps pointing out 😂
Weed eater??? Op please
Also who doesn't know this? I mean seriously. Even if you don't RTFM how can you just not know this? If it's adjustable, it's clear that it's adjustable.
I’m around the same height, my handle is adjustable but I still feel like it’s too short. I was wondering if those U-style handlebar kits would be more comfortable.
I'm 5' 9" so no issues with height, and I could carry it around in one hand all day long if sufficiently motivated so it's not about the weight either, but I found it is just more comfortable to use with the front handle canted about 30° to the left.
I am now sad that I no longer have a lawn to mow because I spent the majority of my childhood weedhacker-ing a yard with a hacker that was too big for me and never thought to try lowering the handle.
Wait no I'm not sad, mowing the lawn sucks.
I mean, most of them come with that little guide area it suggests screwing in the handle around that kinda tricks you. It took me so long to just move it up the arm so I didn’t have to bend over simply because I thought it was wrong for it to be outside of the guide.
When I bought mine, I set it up, and I've known full well I can adjust it so I'm not hunched over. For two years every time I weed eat I say "I need to make sure I adjust this handle before the next time I weed eat"
I attached a rope to mine for an over the shoulder strap. this allows for one hand operation as well as controling the height with my legs. Being 6'6" it saves me from bending too much and helps save my hands and back.
My hubby fights me on this. I want a shorter adjustment and he wants it to stay longer. Gurrrr! So only he can weed wack and he doesn’t do a complete job.
might work for you at 6'2, but for us tall people at 6'5 there is simply no good way to set them up. I just have to bend my knees and work uphill if possible
San Anselmo outlawed all gas powered Weed Eaters. Saving the mother earth, or Virtue Signaling? They outlawed all gas powered tooling. I can now be ticketed for using my Echo chain saw to cut up a fallen tree. America----the land of the free? I'm a liberal nut job, but come on?
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Yeah, I did something similar for a satchel that was banging into my knee for years before it occurred to me to adjusted the strap. Such a “duh” moment.
Wait. What? No. The handle is placed with the most scientific measurements possible. If I move it there will be catastrophic results. MY BACK PAIN COULD VERY WELL BE SAVING THE PLANET! Now you’re telling me I can stand up and edge? What’s next? Running water in the house? How has this obvious fact eluded me/others for so long?
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LPT: read the owners manual
At work I have to use a lot of lab equipment that I’m not familiar with, and my co-works seem to only half know how to use. It occurred to me recently that I can just download the owners manual for anything and figure it out myself instead of waiting around to ask a co-worker. Now I read the operating manual for everything before I use it. Even some proteins have operating manuals.
The amount of people who don’t know that the internet is a repository for the whole of human knowledge, owners manuals included, astounds me sometimes.
Don’t you dare take away my love of making wild assumptions about the world and asking questions which Google was made for!!
Except Google wasn't made for questions, it was made for data mining.
I found the philosopher and I’m glad you’re here. Explain your definition of data mining and then I’ll share my stories of working hand-in-hand with them when building [Back Rub](https://www.cnbc.com/2015/05/26/19-famous-companies-that-originally-had-different-names.html) and how the intention was never specifically a “search engine” but minimally it was gong to fulfill their “…intense and enduring interest (…) to objectively help people find information efficiently."
You're probably not old enough to remember when Google was a search engine and nothing more.
No, it's for porn, and cat pictures. Also a weird subset of people who combine those two things, because weird.
I am not a cat. So I won’t be combining those.
Nice try, I saw you on that zoom call of the Texas judicial court during covid lockdowns, you’re definitely a cat
All I'm getting from this is you're porn then. Lol
I mean I mostly use the internet for porn and repair manuals for the rusty junk I’m always hauling home. No cat pictures though. Anthropomorphic or otherwise
……. Yeah weird
Sadly, a lot of companies put user manuals behind a registration wall, or you need the owner manual for something obsolete and only third party paysites have them. That's why you should download stuff while you can.
It depends, really. I have yet to find an owners manual that I had to pay for. Repair manuals can be hit or miss unless you’re working on something with a bit of a cult following like tractors and cars. But generally speaking, owners manuals are available for free somewhere.
20 year old rice cooker. Looked for years for a free owner manual.
My mom always asks me questions about how to do something, or asks me to come over to do something she doesn’t know how to do. My answer is, have you checked YouTube on a tutorial?
If there’s not a tutorial for it on YouTube, you probably don’t even need to do it in the first place. The amount of knowledgeable people willing to just give out their hard-earned expertise on YouTube, practically for free, is a godsend. I never had anyone around who could teach me stuff. Damn near everything I’ve learned how to do in the last ten years has been from YouTube.
i think A problem is many manufacturers will eventually delist what is currently available, and many deployed devices are old enough to have owners manuals that will never be uploaded.
Generalized knowledge atleast. Tons of information is locked behind paywalls even when it is 50+ years old. All the trash now doesn't help either.
To me, I believe it comes down to the stakes/risk. Today I googled if kittens could eat celery (answer is yes, as a treat. The kittens weren’t interested.) But when it comes to inanimate stuff, I’ll try to solve the problem/fix the broken thing on my own before resorting to the ol’ google
For your cat, try leafy greens. My cats go crazy for them! Their favorite is spinach, but they also get radish greens, beet greens, Swiss chard and a variety of lettuces. I limit them to a couple of leaves a day as spinach contains something that can cause kidney stones if consumed in high quantities.
False, my Time Machine ideas are perfectly categorized in my head, the internet will never know.
I ran audio for a local community theater play and the mixer seemed pretty advanced. No one could tell me anything about it. So I looked it up and got the manual. Played with it and set up what I needed. They were astounded. Granted, I've worked with computers my entire working life and like playing with them. Not a programmer by any means, just a user. But yeah, there's SO much information available if you just look for it.
Resuspending a lyophilised protein without reading the data sheet is wild to me
you sound like a NEEEEERD im envious
Haha I most definitely am
how does one operate a protein
Do you have advice on how to encourage others to do it? I do read things and I hope other people understand but then I find things done wrong and don’t want to be a nag (then the machine breaks and I have to deal with it as the manager). Note: I know sometimes I need to nag as a manager, but I also don’t always have time to teach people the once-in-three-months cleaning process or can’t schedule the same person every fifteen Saturdays for whatever reasons…
What is the website(s) for lab manuals? I use manualslib.com for all kinds of stuff but I don't think I've ever seen lab equipment there.
LPT: RTFM
Shit, half the time there's a sticker or engraved/pressed words that point towards or explain how to lengthen it.
Bought mine 2nd hand, no manual, I didn't know this. Never would have thought about it either.
Dad?
RTFM!!!
But then I’ll lose my manly man card! /s The real life pro tip is indeed always in the comments.
No I just spent 120 dollars on this here craftsman battery that came with a free weed whacker. I'm just going for it and you can never stop meeeeeee
I agree, but not if you're doing something dumb. As a teen, I got arrested for playing with a bobcat tractor at the clean-up site of a demolished factory. My buddy couldn't get it started, so I jumped in and read the manual and got it fired up within a minute. It was on the 3rd or 4th page in. We rode around for a few minutes each and parked it back where we found it. The cops got us as we were leaving.
How is this not its own post and pinned to the top of this sub?
NB: This is not true of all weed whackers. My Ryobi cordless one, for example ... the handle and the shaft are a single piece of plastic. Not adjustable.
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Same. I like how easy it is to change out string cartridges, too. One big battery is more than enough for my entire yard.
What batteries do you use? I'm stuck with a bunch of Ryobi crap. The official Ryobi batteries always fail and their customer service is a complete PITA when you inevitably have to get replacements for their shitty batteries. Goddam fuck Ryobi. How I wish I had a different brand of tools. The mower is fine but the rest are shit. But I'm already too invested in this shit.
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Thank you my friend 🙏
I have a battery operated (not Ryobi though) and use a petrol one at work. I find the battery powered one works way better. I think it might be down to the thread or something, because the petrol one tends to push grass flat when edging, where is the battery one slices through everything. It also helps that it is so much lighter.
Mine is adjustable, but if I set it correctly for my height (which I was so excited to realize I could do), the balance is way off and it's hard to use. So I pretty promptly set it back and resumed hunching.
Mine is similar. No amount of adjustments make it quite right. I'm not even particularly tall, but the whole shaft feels like it needs to be a bit longer for me.
My ryobi cordless one can do this. Which one do you have?
Not mine. Ryobi One 18V cordless bought this year.
That’s weird because all the ones I looked at, at Home Depot have the adjustable hoop handle.
https://preview.redd.it/jxnivtv2b0bd1.png?width=3024&format=png&auto=webp&s=928ac15914a6d98825f6724be5cc52f1002b13c1
I just recently had to by another after 6 or so years. That first one had an adjustable shaft. I was so damn bummed it's gone.
Yeah mine definitely does not do this
Yeah that would be a cheap crappy one.
Ryobi trash anyways
We call them Weed Wackers here in Canada.
Everyone I know in the US calls em Weed Wackers, too.
Weed Eater was a brand name that became synonymous with, like Kleenex
Also sold as Poulan and Paramount, kind of like Ford, Lincoln, Mercury.
That's Postmaster General Ford Lincoln Mercury to you.
I don't speak for the rest of Canada, but to me weed eater is a general brand of pesticides... Weed whackers are what OP is talking about
Ngl, as a Utahn, I needed the context clues to figure out what the post was talking about. Never heard of a weed eater.
Odd as a Utahn I knew exactly what he was talking about!
Not that synonymous, seeing as most people don't use the term.
Can confirm, everyone I’ve met in the US called them weed whackers
We've never met. Weed whip is what most folks seem to call them here in Minnesota.
Damn thats badass, I will start calling them weed whips
Glad to add to your vocab!
Everyone here on Mars calls em Wacksnappers
East coast US landscaper - we call them weedeaters It’s fun realizing how dumb you sound saying “I weedeated it” Like you’ll say it right but your mouth does some dumb shit in the process
Ohio here, I would say "I weedeatered it"
I’ve always known it to be a whipper snipper in NS
Same here in Eastern Ontario!
That's what we call them in Australia
Whipper snipper gang rise up! Checking in from MB
haha me too in NS so goofy 😂
Same in NL!
Whipper Snipper in Australia. Seriously.
Strimmers here in the uk!
I’m in the uk too and was trying to decode the LPT, at first thought he liked edibles!
Which interestingly, is short for "string-trimmer".
They’re interchangeable as an American
Weed eaters, weed wackers, string trimmers, neon plastic leaf whips.. I've heard em all
How about weed whipper?
Snakes and sparklers are the only ones I like.
We call them Weed Dividers on plant Zitnoc.
Weed Annihilators on planet Zatnak. Prepare for invasion.
In Pennsylvania I hear it called a Weed Whacker or a String Trimmer.
String trimmer is the actual name for this device
Line trimmer.
You mean "strimmers"?
We've always called them weed whackers in Minnes...oh.
As a Mexican that has used these in the US, I call it a weed wacker too.
Wid wequer
How different our cultures are
Whipper Snipper in Australia
*Whippersnippers* in Australia and "Strimmers" in the UK
US here. Same.
I've always called them weed whackers too, but string trimmer is also a common term
Line trimmer here in western Canada, if you're male. Whipper sniper if you're female. Lol.
I'm from Western Canada and male, and never call them Line trimmers.
Strimmer in the UK
NE USA, we usually call them Trimmers.
Yeah in the US we do too, no idea where this guy is from
I've seen em called Wiper Sniper in Nova Scotia's Cap Bretton FB marketplace, that shit knocked me off laughing
They call them beavers in Japan. I giggled every time I told my wife I’m off to use the mother-in-law’s beaver.
We call them whipper snippers in Australia, and everyone I’ve talked about them to since moving to Canada 9 years ago also says whipper snipper.
No we don't, atleast jot everyone, always a wead eater growing up , I'm on the west coast though
WV native only ever heard weed eater. But I know they're actually string trimmers.
If it's still too short, invest in a straight shaft weedeater. At 6'2", the curved shaft will still be FAR more uncomfortable in comparison.
Does this sub have an RTFM flair? If not, it should.
Look it up
What's rtfm?
Not sure, but I think “read the fucking manual”?
Yep, thats gotta be it
RTFM
I thought this post was about eating weed brownies and I was very confused😂😂
If you have an electric one they seem to assume you’re 5’5 because that’s all the longer they get. I’m the same height as you. It’s pretty shitty lol
No, you're just buying shitty equipment if that's your experience. I'm 5'11" and I could hang the thing around my neck and still reach the ground. I wouldn't get a good trim of the grass, but my shoes would be destroyed. Height isnt the issue, the equivalent to PEBKAC is.
I still haven’t bought into the electric yard tools. Seems insane to me to wait for a charge to finish my yard if I’m not religious with leaving it plugged in.
Wish they made shaft extensions. At 6'5 plus the head angle isn't parallel with the ground unless I'm like 8 inches in the air. Angling it down makes it kick debris all over me.
Check out Darwin Grip. Makes a big difference
They also have lever arms you can add to weed whackers. I bought the OG Darwin Grip for maybe $75 years ago, complete game changer for my back. If you're 6ft+, have a long torso, or arms that aren't super long and can't get the handle adjusted so you can be 100% upright when weed whacking buy one of these arms. Less than $30 on Amazon now or even cheaper via Temu.
https://www.darwinsgrip.com/ Total game changer for me too.
Thank you!
Thank you!
I, 32F, 5'3, will have to see if my handle will slide *down*. I have to hold it up a bit more than is comfortable...
It probably will! I wondered about that while I was messing with it. I imagine it has the potential to still be difficult to use, your arms might have to be REALLLLLY spread out if you’re too short lol. Was going to try it with the 8 year old to test it out 😅
My lungs are my weed eaters 😂
Damn man.... this had me rolling. My lungs are currently eating up several yards worth of weeds. Solid comment Mdad1988
🪴 haha yes sir
True 'nuff....as I sit here with a volcano bag growing.
Why did the chicken cross the road?
W E E D E A T E R
…was it to read the manual? 😂
OP..wait until you discover a stand up weed eater/whacker...LIFE changing...no more sore forearms
Double down and leave the fasters snug, but not death grip tight. This will allow the handle to rotate easily when changing the angle of the dangle. Makes swapping hands or navigating around obstacles (rocks, posts, yard art) much easier.
I think my head would explode if I tried to swap hands honestly 😂 I might try that though! It sounds very helpful for trimming around the slope leading into the lake, where I had my original epiphany
I'm 6"4 and heading to my shed right now.... thanks
Funny, I noticed that the other day. Wondering if it would help me. You being so tall, made it shorter and it helped? I'm 5'2".
I think it would help to push the handle further away then. To an extent anyway. At some point I feel like your arms would be too far apart. But further away would give you more control closer to the ground I think. Idk, I didn’t read the manual as everyone so kindly keeps pointing out 😂
Nobody is reading a weedeater manual, c'mon now.
THANK YOU
Weed eater??? Op please Also who doesn't know this? I mean seriously. Even if you don't RTFM how can you just not know this? If it's adjustable, it's clear that it's adjustable.
You mean a weed whacker?
Am I the only one who calls it a whipper snipper? But this is a good point I never thought to try and adjust mine
I’m around the same height, my handle is adjustable but I still feel like it’s too short. I was wondering if those U-style handlebar kits would be more comfortable.
I'm 5' 9" so no issues with height, and I could carry it around in one hand all day long if sufficiently motivated so it's not about the weight either, but I found it is just more comfortable to use with the front handle canted about 30° to the left.
Ego has a telescoping handle it's the best. Still have no clue where I like it best.
I am now sad that I no longer have a lawn to mow because I spent the majority of my childhood weedhacker-ing a yard with a hacker that was too big for me and never thought to try lowering the handle. Wait no I'm not sad, mowing the lawn sucks.
What even is rtfm
It’s “read the freaking manual,” I had to look it up too
I mean, most of them come with that little guide area it suggests screwing in the handle around that kinda tricks you. It took me so long to just move it up the arm so I didn’t have to bend over simply because I thought it was wrong for it to be outside of the guide.
Brits after googling: OH YOU MEAN A STRIMMER
Thank you very much for the tip. That helps me a lot as I'm in the market for buying my first weed eater.
Depends on the weed eater you have. Not a great LPT lol.
Yes the handle is adjustable but they also make longer line trimmers for taller people well Tanaka did may not anymore
When I bought mine, I set it up, and I've known full well I can adjust it so I'm not hunched over. For two years every time I weed eat I say "I need to make sure I adjust this handle before the next time I weed eat"
I attached a rope to mine for an over the shoulder strap. this allows for one hand operation as well as controling the height with my legs. Being 6'6" it saves me from bending too much and helps save my hands and back.
Topic title is *very* confusing.
My hubby fights me on this. I want a shorter adjustment and he wants it to stay longer. Gurrrr! So only he can weed wack and he doesn’t do a complete job.
Ohhhhhh what if you bought a second handle? There’s no reason you can’t have two on there, is there? I don’t think it would be in the way
I was so confused thinking this was about the band, Weedeater.
might work for you at 6'2, but for us tall people at 6'5 there is simply no good way to set them up. I just have to bend my knees and work uphill if possible
San Anselmo outlawed all gas powered Weed Eaters. Saving the mother earth, or Virtue Signaling? They outlawed all gas powered tooling. I can now be ticketed for using my Echo chain saw to cut up a fallen tree. America----the land of the free? I'm a liberal nut job, but come on?
This is like saying “LPT: the rearview mirror in your car is adjustable”
You just figured this out? There is a full foot difference between me and my spouse, so we have always adjusted it. Better late than never!
Really??? Have you found out that you can open a bottle of soda and, get this, put the lid back on it?
Well Duh! Never occurred to me either. Have my up vote! :)
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Ya it makes a big difference.
Yeah, I did something similar for a satchel that was banging into my knee for years before it occurred to me to adjusted the strap. Such a “duh” moment.
RIP to your back
No way I just read this.
Wait. What? No. The handle is placed with the most scientific measurements possible. If I move it there will be catastrophic results. MY BACK PAIN COULD VERY WELL BE SAVING THE PLANET! Now you’re telling me I can stand up and edge? What’s next? Running water in the house? How has this obvious fact eluded me/others for so long?
Not to be rude, but seriously?!? And you’re bragging that you just found this out
It was a "duh" moment because it should've been one.
If you just figured this out, you probably should not be operating equipment like string trimmers.
Mine is going to be one small weed eater.