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Scything weeds
This is cutting be swinging the blade in a level
This method quickly allows to clear areas of field grass and weeds.
Scything should be not be used to cut large, though weeds or woody growths.
Scything can be done in both directions (warning! Debris may be thrown towards user's direction)
or just in one direction (which results in the debris being thrown away from the user). Use the
side of the blade that is rotating away from you and tilt down the blade slightly on this same side.
If kickback occurs, the blade may dull or the material so thick and hard that you should use other
tool instead of this machine.
Do not force the blade to cut.
Do not change the angle of cut during operation.
Avoid using any pressure or leverage which could cause the blade to bind or crack.
Kickback
An uncontrolled kickback of the blade may occur when using the brush cutter.
This kickback phenomenon occurs in particular when performing cuts in the critical angle of the
blade of the blade, by example the angle between 12-and-2 o'clock.
Never use the trimmer in the angle between 12-and-2o'clock.
Never use such a blade angle for cutting solid materials such as bushes, roots whose diameter is
greater than 3 cm because the trimmer could then be violently projected to the side an may cause
injury.
This uncontrolled kickback of the blade is more likely to occur when the user cannot see the
material being cut.
This uncontrolled kickback can cause serious injury or even death to the user or other people or
animals. Always keep people and animals at least 15 m away from the machine.
Cutting with nylon head
Grass trimming
Feeding the trimmer carefully into the material you wish to cut. Tilt the head slowly 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 the barrier but do not jam (over feed) the line into the barrier.
If trimming up to a wire mesh or chain linked fence be careful to feed only up to wire. If you go
too far the line will snap off around the wire. Trimming can be done to cut through weed sterns
one at a time. Place the trimmer line head near the bottom of the weed. Never high up since 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 stern slowly.
Scalping and edging
Both of these done with the line head tilted at a steep angle. Scalping is removing top growth,
including roots, leaving the earth bare.
Edging is trimming the grass back where it has spread over a sidewalk on drive way.
During both edging and scalping, hold the unit a steep angle and in a position where the debris
and any dislodged dirt and stones, will not come back towards you even if it ricochets off any
hard surface.
Although the figures show examples of how to edge and scalp, every operator must find for
himself the angles which suits his body size and cutting situation.
WARNING!
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