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2. 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 ...

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. 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 ...

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6. 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.

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