A clean lawn edge makes your yard look sharp, saves time mowing, and reduces long-term maintenance work. Experts recommend starting with safety gear and a clean surface before choosing tools suited to ...

String trimmers can be a pain. Many an hour on a weekend day has been lost while trying to feed string into a fickle trimmer or fruitlessly yanking a gas-powered trimmer's pull cord while the engine ...

If you want to ensure the edges of your lawn are "perfectly even" before the winter months, you may want to ditch your trimmer and use another tool. Grass cutting season is coming to an end, but if ...

Hard starting and noise are among the gripes about string trimmers we recently found on Twitter. Gas trimmers that fire up with fewer pulls, plus a growing list of powerful electric models—many of ...

When I bought a home 25 years ago, for the first time, I needed to mow my own yard—an 80-square-foot, postage-stamp-size area. I got a hand-me-down corded string trimmer and started hacking away with ...

Grass trimmers go by many names. Strimmer, string trimmer, Weedwhacker, and Weed Eater are just some of the more common. Some of these names were actually trademarked by specific companies, only to ...