[NSC] I smashed up my strimmer, and I don't want my wife to know

[Hugo Rune]

80 sheets?

Here is one for around £30

24V Cordless Strimmer Grass Trimmer Tree Cutter Garden Edger Electric 2Batteries | eBay

Very suitable for residential use. The 304 stainless steel blade is suitable for trimming lawn, weeds and small shrubs, and the manganese steel circular blade is suitable for trimming thicker shrub branches.

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A move to plastic blades or even a metal one might help your sanity. These wire systems can infuriate.

 

[Me and my Monkey]

You don’t need to justify to your wife, a strimmer is a man’s tool, it’s of no concern to a wife if a man wants to upgrade his strimmer, in fact a shed and anything in it requires no permission from a wife !
So pop down to the garden centre, and purchase a new updated strimmer like a boss !
If all else fails tell her the rats chewed the last one, that should ensure she never enters your shed again

Morning, Joey!

 

[essbee1]

You want decking

Subtle!

 

[Bold Seagull]

Could you try using your hedge trimmer for the edgings?

 

[Eric the meek]

I wonder what gardeners did before electricity was invented? There's no law that says you can't use a hand tool - shears, edgers etc. You can pick these up at one of the many car boot sales this weekend.

 

[essbee1]

I wonder what gardeners did before electricity was invented? There's no law that says you can't use a hand tool - shears, edgers etc. You can pick these up at one of the many car boot sales this weekend.

..and some Geoffrey Archer books for keeping fires going while you're there.

 

[TomandJerry]

I wonder what gardeners did before electricity was invented? There's no law that says you can't use a hand tool - shears, edgers etc. You can pick these up at one of the many car boot sales this weekend.

 

[el punal]

Get rid of the old broken one at a tip would be my best suggestion

That’s no way to talk about Easy 10’s missus.

 

[lawros left foot]

Get rid of the old broken one at a tip would be my best suggestion

Wife or strummer?

 

[Anger]

OK, so with a sunny window this afternoon I decided to give the lawn its first cut of the year. I always begin by strimming the borders first (I have wooden edging), before getting the mower out to finish the job.

Anyway, my Bosch strimmer was being a little BITCH. Every time I started, I'd get 3 paces before the sodding wire would kaputt. So I'd trudge back to the patio, undo the thing, pull through a bit more strimming wire, re-assemble, and crack on. Except within 5 seconds, the f*cking wire had gone again. So the quite fiddly dissasemble - reassemble poke-the-wire-through process would be repeated again and again. And this happened around 6 times. I've done this before, but never to this extent.

On the 7th go when it went again, in a childish fit of rage, I hoisted my strimmer aloft my head, and violently SMASHED it down onto the lawn, whereupon it broke in two. And the shield bit at the bottom is f*cked. I've hid it behind the shed for now (but I did at least go on to complete the mowing).

So now it looks like I'll have to blow the thick end of 80 sheets for another strimmer. But I need to do all this whilst (a) disposing of the old broken one somewhere, and (b) get the new one without her knowing.

I'm not expecting suggestions tbh, just venting really. But its going to keep me awake now, I know it.

Take it to a recycling centre where the BBC’s Money for Nothing team will salvage it, send it to an Artisan and they will turn it into either a lamp, table or perhaps even a sofa and sell it to ‘I saw you Coming’ for a profit, which they will then give to you and you will have the money you need for a new one.

Problem solved.

 

[Chicken Run]

I hope when she finds out she doesn’t call the Lawn Enforcement on you

 

[dejavuatbtn]

Tell her it stopped working and it broke trying to fix it. What’s the problem?
strimmers are a pain all round - cables get cut, the plastic cutting wires break off requiring disassembly, and the batteries in cable free ones give up very quickly and cost as much as a new machine to replace.

 

[KZNSeagull]

Cheap and a reminder not to be so childish in the future.

 

[Eric the meek]

Anything with a blade can do the job. Scissors, shears, knife, edger (curved or straight blade). Electric options include jigsaw, circular saw, reciprocating saw, angle grinder. Petrol options include Strimmer, brush cutter.

You could have done it in the time you're taking, wondering if any of these will really work. They all will, just with varying efficiency.

 

[HeaviestTed]

Man up, tell your missus you smashed it because it was a “fuckin cretin” and you are buying a new one.

 

[Nobby Cybergoat]

Smash up a load of other stuff and pretend it's all been vandalised?

 

[dazzer6666]

 

[Eric the meek]

Is that a Russian gardening tool?

 

[peterward]

Get rid of the edging…

Will be cheaper than.

Get rid of the Mrs

 

[Taybha]

Like a gal is going to know what a strimmer looks like,the lawn faerie's do our whole garden overnight apparently.