Archive for August 2012

Tips to Sharpen Hedge Trimmer Blades

When working in a garden it is important to ensure that the hedge trimmer you are using does its work effectively and in one go. However, prolong use of hedge trimmers often make their blades blunt and ineffective. Naturally, if you are using the machine frequently the blades will turn blunt down the road. You cannot prevent it but of course you can sharpen the blades time to time, depending on the frequency of their uses. Here is a stepwise procedure to sharpen hedge trimmer blades.
  • Step 1: Put the machines on a plane surface such as a table or any hard surface, ensuring that the blades are facing away from you.
  • Step 2: Take a pair of pliers and use it to open the bolts on your hedge trimmers by twisting the bolt counter-clockwise.
  • Step 3: Remove the bolts and then separate the paired blades.
  • Step 4: Hold the handles of blade tightly, again ensuring that it is facing away from you. Take a metal filer and slide it down the length of the blade till you reach end point. Repeat the process for a minute or two then continue the process with the other blade.
  • Step 5: Check whether the blades are sharpened using a piece of paper. Take a piece of paper and hold it next to the blade, then cut the paper with least force. If the paper cuts easily, it means blades are sharpened, or else you will have to continue the sharpening process with metal filer and again have to repeat the paper test.
These steps are only applicable on hedge trimmers having blades fixed with bolts. If your trimmer doesn’t have bolts, it means the machine is not meant for servicing and you need to replace it with a new one.

How You Let Mower Dealers Rip off You

Are you planning to buy or rent a mower? Be aware! Dealers just need a chance and they can rip off you. It is not always that dealers intentionally do this, but at time it is we who allow them to charge us more than what is deserved. We allow them every time when we lack knowledge or fail to explain what we actually need.

While buying mowers, if you don’t know the terms or details you want to buy, it is fairly tough to get desire deal. Most often, we reach a mower store without gathering enough knowledge about mowers and end up buying products that either more featured than what is required or far less than the requirements. It is not always dealer’s fault who the sell us wrong products that either proved to be over performer or under performer. This is result of our inability to explain what we are looking for and react to the suggestions given by the sales person. After all, they can suggest for the best, but decision is always yours.

Next, you allow dealers to rip off you when you hire a mower without preparing your garden. If you first get the delivery of mower and then clean up your garden to prepare them for mowing, it would take much time. This way you will be paying for unnecessary hours that you just wasted on cleaning up your lawn in renting hours. If you clean and prepare your garden before you get the delivery of mower, you will be saving time and money both.

These are just simple but common mistake we make while buying or renting mowers that give dealers chance to charge us more than what it fair. The next time when you plan to buy or rent mowers, keep these things in mind and save your valuable money. 
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