Wire wheel weed eater - video

[olderdan]

It looks as if this machine is pulling up the weed roots unlike a strimmer, I would not think the brush head is rotating fast enough to be a real hazard from flying wire pieces.

Reminds me of a home made strimmer I cobbled together after seeing this new device on a TV program called Tomorrows World back in the sixties, a spin dryer motor on the end of an upright vacuum handle and a plastic guard cut from a container of some kind. All feasible apart from the piece of bowden cable I decided to use as a blade, all went well for twenty minuets or so when it stopped cutting and the motor revved up, you guessed it the bowden cable had gone, I came across it weeks later sticking out of my garden shed like a dart. A classic case of enthusiasm getting the better of common sense.