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I love my new truck ! I plan to keep lots of BIG garden tools in the giant tool box behind the cab . Note the bull guard on the front . That will come in handy in my pastures .

I've been using a weed hound for years and I think it's one of the greatest lawn tools ever. For best results, make sure the soil is damp when you use it. Get it right over the center of the weed and step down. Give it a half twist, then pull up by the knob on top. If you pull up by the handle on the side, it will sometimes let go of the weed.

wantonamara, Looks like a very nice saw with that hi-tech silky blade. Can you tell yet of that bottom sickle is effective at cutting the bark on the underside? Tearing a strip of bark down the remaining branch/trunk as the cut falls away is a problem that is hard to prevent with the standard saws. A noid ~22 ft pole saw/lopper came with our house.... and its two mature fruitless mulberry trees. The 30-something year old blade is rusty and never been sharpened, but still cuts reasonably well after one or two major pruning sessions every year. I have occasionally rubbed (candle) wax on the blade to reduce drag/binding rather than protect, but has rarely been a problem. The mulberrys could put out new branches faster that any other tree I've ever dealt with.... which quickly taught me to catch them while still small enough for the lopper to avoid the additional time and energy needed to saw them later. I have probably made 10 to 15 lops for every sawn cut on "buggy whip" producing trees like mulberry or Chinese pistache; though it's much closer to even with the fewer cuts needed on oaks. This is the mostly lopped pistache pile from last Monday: Most of these branches will be run through the shredder/chipper this week and placed somewhere back in the yard.