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2. 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.

3. Weedeater (band) - Wikipedia

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   Weedeater is an American stoner metal and sludge metal band formed in Wilmington, North Carolina in 1998. The group's most recent album, Goliathan, was released in 2015.

4. String trimmer - Wikipedia

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   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. It uses a whirling monofilament line instead of a blade, which protrudes from a rotating spindle at the end of a long shaft topped by a gasoline ...

5. 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.

6. Weedeater (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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   A weedeater is a powered handheld device that uses a flexible monofilament line instead of a blade for cutting grass and other plants near objects. Weedeater may also refer to: Weed Eater, an agricultural machinery manufacturer; Weedeater (band), an American sludge metal band

7. Stihl - Wikipedia

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   Andreas Stihl designed and hand built his first chainsaw in 1926. [5] The saw was electrically powered, and weighed about 48 kg (106 lb). [6] Stihl grew slowly initially, as the chainsaws came to the market about the same time as the Great Depression; with manpower cheap, and old two-man saws proven, there was no need for power saws.

8. 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 ...

9. List of tool manufacturers - Wikipedia

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   Husqvarna, Weed Eater, Poulan, McCulloch, others [17] Outdoor power equipment Ideal Industries: Sycamore, Illinois, US: Western Forge, [18] Pratt-Read, [19] SK Hand Tools. [20] [21] Hand Tools Illinois Tool Works: Paslode, Ramset, Redhead, others [22] Fastening Tools [23] Ingersoll-Rand: Swords, Dublin, Ireland: Ingersoll-Rand, others [24] Air ...