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2. String trimmer - Wikipedia

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   A man using a gasoline-powered string trimmer. A string trimmer, also known by the portmanteau strimmer and the trademarks Weedwacker, Weed Eater and Whipper Snipper, [1] [a] is a garden power tool for cutting grass, small weeds, and groundcover.

3. Weed Eater - Wikipedia

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   Weed Eater is a string trimmer company founded in 1971 in Houston, Texas by George C. Ballas, Sr., the inventor of the device. The idea for the Weed Eater trimmer came to him from the spinning nylon bristles of an automatic car wash. He thought that he could come up with a similar technique to protect the bark on trees that he was trimming around.

4. Brushcutter (garden tool) - Wikipedia

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   The power unit of a 240 V electric brushcutter. A brushcutter (also called a brush saw, clearing saw or gasoline goat) is a powered garden or agricultural tool used to trim weeds, small trees, and other foliage not accessible by a lawn mower or rotary mower.

5. The Grampa's Weeder will save your back and knees - AOL

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   Brilliant design. The family behind Grampa's Weeder gives full credit to history. The product was more of a discovery than an invention. In the old garage of a family member, they came across a ...

6. Homelite Corporation - Wikipedia

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   Homelite Super XL 12 automatic Chainsaw. Homelite Corporation is an American power equipment manufacturer, i.e. (chainsaws, leafs blowers, trimmers), that became notable for being one of the largest post-World War II manufacturers of portable electrical generators and professional and consumer level chainsaws, as well as holding the distinction of producing the world's first one-man operated ...

7. George Ballas - Wikipedia

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   Ballas got the idea for the trimmer while driving through an automatic car wash, where the rotating brushes gave him an idea. Using a tin can laced with fishing line and an edge trimmer, he tried out his idea, which worked. After some refinements, he shopped it around to several tool makers, who all rejected his invention.