EASIEST WAY TO STRING YOUR WEED EATER
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Your 6'6" measurement is called "an ell" of length.
thank you for taking time out for this
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I'm a 72 yr old widowed woman who has never used these tools I am now forced to learn because I can't pay someone to do it. I absolutely loved your description of how to change the string "thingy". I was able to go out and do it without a hitch. I so appreciate your help.
well my friend....."forced to learn" at 72 is a total bummer....bigger question is this: If you had to do it over again, would ya pay someone to mow your lawn or learn how to do it and enjoy that hour of peace every week improving your property? There's a sense of pride that comes from mowing that I honestly can't explain.....looking back on a hard day's work and being proud of it. That's what our children need too!! My dad is 72....you're still a young woman!! Remember...always wear some boots and long pants and safety glasses! Take care!
@@StoneyRidgeFarmer well I know how to mow the lawn and do it sometimes, but the issue becomes allergies to grass and exhaustion after that hour, and I still have all the other things to do that my husband of 50 yrs did, plus my stuff ( garden, chickens, house, preserving food, chopping and stacking wood for heat for next year, - done! etc) I’m about to take the corroded pipes out from under my bathroom sink and figure out how to replace them. We did all out work here ourselves. But now I have so much more. Just the exhaustion is difficult. But I’m learning
@@StoneyRidgeFarmer oh I didn’t answer the question- yes I prefer learning to do it
Thingy - by the way is a real word ;)
The pros use it from time to time. I promise !!
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@@barbparshley5653Barb, I hear you loud and clear, I’m a young 54 single mom, had a bouncing baby boy at 43, he’s still small to help me with my mothers overgrown (poison ivy in places) She let it get out of control and now I have to learn to do all of the things. She’s lived here for 35 years and never liked to garden or be outside. She’s 87, that means the large family we had are no longer here. It’s just us 3 now. I get overwhelmed and have had to learn ALL kinds of things that I’d rather delegate but so be it. I’m a gardener so the yard and our space is very important to me so I’ll keep chipping away at it. I’m here because I ordered a lower cost 2 stroke weed/brush eater and had to assemble it. It came with 3 feet of string in the attachment 🙄😂 Don’t overexert yourself. One bite at a time. I wish I had chickens but I’d have to build a coop myself and I don’t care that much anymore 😂 I hope you are doing well! 🌱🪻🐥
You are a angel sent by god. I’m a very young man trying to do right by his maw. And my weed eater has just been the bane of my existence... now I can weed eat without screwing with this spool every 10-20 minutes of using this string! 🙏🙇♂️
I'm 44 and had been doing it wrong until I saw this!
Try soaking your weed eater string as well. In all the years I've worked with a weed eater, I've never heard about this and just learned this evening! Word is your older line gets some new life in it and you won't be loading near as much line with it not being as brittle. Good luck!
Hi there. I'm 12
@@irmaodendaal1775 cool
Wow you get 10 minutes, mine lasts 1minute
My dad passed away last year and strimming was always his job. I'm trying to figure it out this year and this was a god send. Thanks all the way from Ireland.
I'm in the same boat. My dad did literally all our lawn care for the last 10 years. Now he passed away and I realize I don't even know how to replace weed eater string.
Same here. Just learned how to change the air filter, spark plug, and oil in our mower. It'll be a year January 12th.
Sorry for y'alls losses. I cannot imagine how sad that would feel.
Simple but genius!!! After watching your video, I had 5 yards to do and when I went to do the weed eating I was out a string and tried your method and it worked fantastic!!!Thanks so much for sharing, hope you have a great day!!!!👍😃
Well done on the method. I work at a STIHL shop myself. Only suggestions to make it easier would be that if you just take 4 arm lengths and cut it. Put each end in the spool as you did and spool it till you're left with a short loop. Latch each edge in the notches built into the spool for holding your line while putting the spool into the head and cut the loop of line. Pull the line from the edge of the spool into the appropriate eyelet and they hold themselves there. Put your faceplate on and go. Otherwise this is super helpful and will recommend it for people who don't have time in the shop. My method would just save you the time of measuring two seperate pieces cause you can cut it at the very end, the spool is built and designed for that. The notches on the top edge of the spool opposite each other. And the effort of holding the line once it's been spooled, hooking it into the notch on the top of the spool removes that risk/effort of holding it from unwinding completely.
I could actually cry. Thank you so much. Without my usual help, lockdown has seen my grass get higher with every fresh rain shower, it's now almost waist height and I have spent so many hours trying to work out how to string this bloody thing, always ending up in a frustrated tangle. Now my trimmer (what we call them in the UK) is loaded (5 minutes, first try!) and I'm going to claim back my garden. Huge hugs from Yorkshire, England and bless you for sharing this!
Howdy in England ! Down South here in the U S.we call it whatever comes to mind. Lol.
If you have dogs it’s called a shit kicker.
@@lostcoastnomad479 ...good one, very actively DESCRIPTIVE. i work for a realtor, and most wealthy people, have BIG, LARGE ****en dogs. Had to throw away a pair of runners, and jeans. man, what a crap shoot......good day, from eastern central Alberta Canada. oh, got no $ tips, either....oh well, another day.....
We call it a strimmer lol ✌️😂
@@298FAB afaik strimmer is a branding thing from Black & Decker, so officially other brands are garden trimmers but everyone just calls them strimmers (it autocorrected my OG comment); it's like vacuum cleaners, in the UK the first big brand was Hoover so it became a generic term, I confused a non-English friend the first time he was helping me pick up the house and I asked him to bring the hoover from the hall, he came back with my cleaner and explained he couldn't find a hoover but would this do?
Saw 2 seconds of your intro and remembered how to do it. Thanks. Nevermind, I'm back to actually watch the video.
THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! I’m a 60+ years young lady that used to pay someone to take care of my backyard. I’ve found myself unemployed and taking care of my backyard myself. I couldn’t figure out how to load my “weedwacker”!!! Your video is a Godsend!!🙏🏾
Jeanette, buy an extra spool that comes loaded with string, and keep it available, my stihl guy always fixed my trimmers on short notice and I haven’t for got that so I would walk in to his shop and put 3 on the counter and we just laughed….I always told him I need a reason to keep coming back to see your inventory, and i buy the commercial trimmers stihl sells and the moto mix, they start so much nicer…..take care, wear your safety glasses~~~
Nice Job! This makes it twice as fast as the way I was doing it at one string at a time. Thanks for a super video (Short and right to the point without all the "extra talking") Thank You!
Dude, First try, thank you. First time, I've bought my own weed eater. Every other time I've dealt with it others have strung it up. This was easy to do. Well done, sir.
I watched three lame videos before finding yours and yours was the one that was actually helpful, cheers mate!
glad it helped...I guess that's why it's the top hit on yt...becuase it works lol
Great Video. I can't believe how I struggled with this task. It took forever and of course when you are trying to get a job done, you get frustrated when things aren;t going right. I used your method and got restung and whacking again in just a couple of minutes. Thank you!
Wow great educational video! I just got an fs 91 R and I wasnt used to having 2 separate lines in the weed eater so the way I put it in took me way longer than it should. You’re a real time saver thanks 🙏
Thank you, this is the first time I had to cut my small piece of lawn since my husband died unexpectedly 3 weeks ago. You explaination was brilliant, and I managed to rewire the weed eater from your video. Widow in Cape Town, South Africa
Thank you for this video, the landscaper, that cut my grass for many years passed away unfortunately, and I have equipment that I need to learn how to work, so I watched this video, and I am happy to have learned how to string a trimmer. Binge watching your videos now!!!
2.5 million views! Amazing for such a simple but effective video! Thanks!
Your tutorial was all I needed. Thanks sir. I was getting so frustrated on how to properly line my string up. Now its a breeze thanks to you.
Well, you are a very jolly American gentleman, Sir! 😄 Brightened my morning and thank you for the very good tip. 👍
My husband is under way for a month, and it’s getting warm the grass is getting crazy! Thank you for this tutorial it was very simple and now there is something else I can do! :)
Great video man! You are hilarious and a great teacher! I never had problems re-stringing but this makes it even easier! Thank you!!!
Amateur tip: wear nitrile gloves when changing your string if you're working in an area with poison ivy. Source: personal experience.
"Source; personal experience" 😭👍😅 I love it, no-one uses glothes until they learn the hard way, I was the same hahah
Oh my lmao I would have never thought about that guess no one does until it happens according to y’all lol
Now there's a comment worth reading! Good Point, thanks!
I dunk the head in plain water. Inactivates the Urushiol.
And then take the gloves off when urinating.
Good well executed video. Instead of holding the reel stationary, I hold the 2 sections of string on either side of my middle finger of one hand and hold the reel on top and bottom with the other hand then spin the reel in my hand. This keeps them from twisting and takes even more time off. Thanks!
Thanks for this! Parents told me to do some yard work today, so I figured I'd go the extra mile and surprise them with a nice weedeated front yard!
Thank You!!! I have to go to your video every year to find out how to remove the head from my trimmer and its always easy, but easy to forget! So you are a Godsend every spring when I replace my string and other simple things that most folks already know by my age (72). You are the one I search for and always get simple answers that I can go "AHAAA! Now I remember!"
My wife was making fun of me so bad because I could not figure this out, thanks for the man card save, brother!
Damn I feel that
Just look at her closeup with the back of your hand and say "LETS SEE YOU DO IT!"
@@vonnnov your forgetting that she can probably work a modern vacuum cleaner
she aint the one bro
Currently sitting in my lounge trying to take care of my lockdown lawn and this is saving me too 😂
I have used Stihl with the same factory head and you can’t beat it, 2 in the last 20 years.
Thank you bunches. Always been a hard working chick but never have I ever used a weed whacker b4. Kind of proud that with a little of your help and my Jack of all trade skills I got all around the house, and edges. Thanks darlin.
You are a good teacher. You make it so simple something I have struggled with for years. Thank you for this video.
Tip: If you notice more line breakage than what you feel is normal, drop your roll of unused line in a bucket of water for a day or two. Old line can become brittle and a good soaking can reverse this from happening. This is equally true with a new roll of line as there is no way of knowing how many seasons it was on the shelf prior to your purchase.
Now you tell me!
Never heard that before. I wouldn’t have thought the plastic string would soak up water. Today I was working on restringing and cursing the string. I’ll go soak it immediately.
@@baklash6079 lol
@@baklash6079 that’s funny
A synthetic string would NOT be soaked by water.
This is my first time weed whacking, this was so daunting. But you have made it look super simple. . Will post update on my attempts . Thanks for sharing
I can't thank you enough for this! Doing this was hell for my husband every year, but since he passed in October, it's become mine. Until now! You broke it down perfectly. Took me less than 5 minutes and it worked flawlessly. I will definitely keep watching as I have so much to learn. THANK YOU AGAIN!!!!!!!
God Bless your dear husband.
I will bet he is proudly looking down on you with a smile!🙏
Haha I stumbled on this way myself when I was doing landscaping, and have taught a few surprised buddies how to do it. Glad someone got around to making a video on it!
Thanks. Straight to the point and simple 👍👍
Excellent video. Thanks for keeping it simple, to the point and light-hearted. Using this video to reload my Stihl grass trimmer tomorrow. Thanks for the help brother!
Thankyou for this very informative, non patronising video- for a complete novice, it was perfect 👌🏽 Above all, I really appreciated your sunny disposition- so Thankyou, lovely farmer man
My late mother purchased the original Weedeater after seeing a comercial on TV in mid 70's. I have used one ever since. I wish you were around when I started because you made a great video and this is very helpful.
Great & comprehensive instructions Josh!! You definitely taught me something!! Great vid. Keep em coming 👌👍
SO helpful! Thank you! Also love how well you explain things. You are a great teacher!
Glad it was helpful!
I don’t have a dad. This helped me a lot. Thanks papa
The best video on this topic that I've found. Giving us the perfect perspective, enabling us to see exactly what's being done. This other guy had the side of the spool facing us but you couldn't see what he was doing with one of the lines.
To funny... I needed this...
Love scooby doo....lol
Have a wonderful evening...
You missed a very important and useful feature of the spool: There are a couple of roundish notches on the rims of the spool to hold the ends of the line so you can install it without holding on to the ends. Also some spools allow you to just bend the 24 feet of string in two and not have to cut it in two.
I knew I missed something...better question...if ya already know how to do this...why are ya watching buddy? Just curious..thanks for the info
I have stihl fs90r I caught that also. I clean dirt out of mine before anything I don`t cut my line til it`s all put back together use ball hitch on truck stretch it to back door of truck gives me proper length ball holds it tight while I roll it up. I maintain a few yards for extra money his way is good also you dont always have a ball hitch
@@StoneyRidgeFarmer Aggressive response. Guy was just being helpful. Chill.
Bill Pays, Husqvarna's reel(s) functions like your final sentence.
Nah , he was asking a question like a Man. He even thanked him for his input
Hey thank you sooo much Josh👊. I work a job now where I have to deal with riding mowers, backpack blowers and weed eaters. And I know how to do it all except when it came down to me having to "restring" my weed eater. Now thanks to you I know better how to restring and the proper direction for the string to go 👍👊💪🙌
Can’t believe how easy you made this. I was way over thinking it. Thank you 😁
GREAT hint!!! I just picked up string...I'll give it a try. Thank you and God bless.
Fabulous video. You made a stressful job into a simple and easy fix. Thank you!!
I've never used a weed eater. I never had to, until now. Someone else did those things, took care of the grass and all but things have changed and the time has come for me to put on my Big Girl Undies and do those things for myself! I was given a weed eater, I don't know what brand it is or anything but, I noticed it didn't have any cord sticking out of it and figured it was time for me to find some and figure out how to load the sucker! I hope the one I have will be as easy to load as what you've shown here. I greatly appreciated you showing the step by step process, even though mine may not work the same as yours. I kinda took the fear out of the unknown so, thanks again!
Great video. Have an electric 40 volt cobalt trimmer which was a royal tool replacing the line. I went out and applied what you showed, and bingo..job done. Thanks for the lesson..keepum coming.
This worked awesome for me! Can’t thank you enough! Normally I have my husband do it, but he is in his busy season and I became determined!
good for you !! Be fearless....as, 'whats the worst that can happen '' ? better than watching boob tube...
Your a funny guy!! I am a 50 year old single woman and I learn alot of stuff on youtube on house projects and lawn care. Thank you!
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Thank you so much for taking the time to do this video. It was incredibly helpful for me.
Most interesting is that you took the protective shroud off the head. Brilliant!
I also bought the same Kubota. Love mine! Hope you’re still enjoying yours.
I’ve been asking my husband for years to put in new string and he has always done it but felt annoyed that I always had to wait until he had time. So it was time a learned to do it myself,this was the first video I watched and was able to get it in my first try...thank you!
TH-cam is absolutely wonderful for how to’s.
Could ask the guy next door
Now you know that you can do a lot of things without your husband's help. I have learned this lesson also and now I'm very good at weed eating , using our farm tractor for various things by myself I would like to learn to operate an excavator and learn how to weld. LOL good for you! Keep going.
Yeaaaaa Helen,👍
Been weedeating since I was kid but the old 80s/90s style weedeaters we had never seemed to let out string very well with dual strings, so I never bothered doing it. Hadn't had to do any trimming for a decade since moving away from the farm but got a Husqvarna and figured this would be a good time to look for any tricks for wrapping the line easier and doing the dual lines. Man the channels on the newer style heads are really nice! The one note I'd add is to check the way the line is anchored before cutting it. Mine doesn't have holes like that, it just has a notch between the two channels and you loop the line around that and wrap it. I didn't realize that before cutting, so the line is half what I meant to put on. That's alright though, I'll use the two smaller pieces and then I'll know for the next time after that. Still a nice helpful vid.
I bought my first trimmer 4 years ago and yes spent money for a loaded wire thing and other attachment. Then I got a bigger one with more power an electric Einhell. But, didn't know hiw to reload the wire. Not until I saw this video. Reloading the wire was Really Easy. Thanks a million cause it saved me allot.😊😮❤
Thank you for the help, ordered that string and I feel ready to rewind it myself thanks to your video!
Is Vanna turning letters, too? Just kidding. What a neat way to re-string that head. Simple and effective, Josh. Thank you for sharing the quick tip.
Thank you for this boss. Been having troubles at work with the weed eater as the string gets stuck like shit. Thought something happened to the spring at first but I was wrong haha. Appreciate this video good sir💪Thanks
Thank you. I'm at Key largo FL at work. First time doing this job. Thank you. Love u very much
Looked at a lot of videos on this and this was by far the best directions
There are two slots on the spool that allow you to cam the string into the spool locking the strings to the spool. This allows you to handle the spool with one hand and guide the strings in one at a time.
Thank you so much for this tutorial, very informative and so helpful 👍🏽
Thanks so much!! 3rd times a charm as you were my third video to watch!! Tried it twice on my own and then came here for help. I am now a subscriber.
That was the best demonstration I've found on how to restring the spool. Mine is empty and I need to edge with my Stihl RS70. I'm going to try it right now before I forget how. Thank you for sharing!!!
" We'll set that down in a proper place " proceeds to throw the cover away...LOL...I have the same model, what a beast !!! I do one string at a time, after watching this I'll do it your way. Great help !!!
Shorts will be a nice addition. Congratulations on your new building- she is a beauty
I’ve watched this video several times! You make it so simple and to the point! My husband is impressed I know how to do this! Ha!
Great video! This is exactly what I needed; straight to the point and it actually works
Thank you sir from a happy Irishman 🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪
Pro tip! If you are just starting out, use
.095 line, it will help you get used to the trimmer and it's speed, then use .080 line to get a better cut, it will help you go faster if you have medium to small sized brush.
This guy is a legend among men. Thanks for this tip man! Life saver
Excellent! Perfectly explained and great closeups!!
Thank you for this video soooo much just started helping my grandfather with his yard work and didn’t want to ask him how bc he memory issues and I was scared he wouldn’t remember and I didn’t want him to feel bad so I taught myself how to start everything up and he was shocked to say the least when he saw me weed eating 😂 he had me picking up pinecones and sticks before bc he didn’t think I could handle the weed eater so I just did it one day he was so shocked and happy
Nice job i also made my dad proud too 😅
I've been doing this wrong for over 20 years. Thank you! Take my "like" and "subscribe" sir!
You explained it very well and make it look simple. Thank you !
Just did it and it worked completely thanks so much thumbs up
Great video. I think my mistake has been using a much heavier line. It's tough-wearing but hard to wrestle into place.
I use an Austrian scythe for most of my maintenance. This is a beautiful tool, really satisfying to use, and no noise, no pollution.....definitely my preference unless theres lots of stones about.
Hey, country boy, you are pretty good at this "teaching" thing. Good job.
thanks, just got done w/ the yard...your help was much appreciated!
Thank you so much I’ve just sorted my strimmer and I did it correctly thanks to your great video great job thank you John from the UK
Great video Josh! There are two slots on the string spool where the loose ends of the newly strung string to be pulled into so they won't accidentally come unstrung before you get the spool back into the head. Once you have the spool reinstalled, just give a slight tug on each line to pull the line out of that holding slot. TaDa!!! :-)
Yes I just discovered what those two notches were for a couple of months ago, makes a big difference putting it back in . 😊👍
Right Mark, those notches in the spool are my 3rd hand. The line being held by the 2 notches makes it so easy to drop the spool in with tension on the spring. Put the cover on then pull your both your stings at the same time to set the spring
Yeah I noticed that and defoz had to do that. He makes it look so easy in the video but I found that you almost do need 3 hands. The crap flies everywhere
Thanks. Hopefully this works for Milwaukee too?
THANK YOU for the short format. Liked and Subscribed
Welcome!
even after years of using a trimmer i never thought to roll both lines at the same time lol. thanks for the video and happy trimming out there on stoney ridge farms.
Best video ever! Thankyou made my life much easier! 👍🏻 women needs these kind of videos, quick and easy
Josh! ive had a bunch of the weed wackers over the years and I just picked up the Echo SRM-225 like you said with the speed feed head! It is deff my favorite for sure! Second thing is Oregon makes a very good product! I love their power cut chains for my saws! I run that chain on my Echo CS-490 and my old Mcculloch, id be curious to try that string line! Thanks for the tips as always!
I had Stihl, Homelite , weed eater, and lastly Troy Bilt. In an act of desperation I picked up an echo 225 and fell in love. I will never go back. I am 63 and can weed eat 4-6 hours with my echo. When I buy another chain saw it will be an echo.
Man, this is so helpful, I have a country graveyard to strim this morning and the ground is BAD so this is a huge help as getting the strimmer line right was breaking my heart. Thank you 🇮🇪
What county are you in?
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thanks for taking your time to help this weekend yard dude!!!
Thank you all the way from North Queensland, Australia. With arthritis now, I had to find a way. This was spot on.
great video...
I’ve got the same model I use for hundreds of hours a year, the way he wound works but it’s better to do the top and bottom separately, starting with the top and not letting the line twist like he does because it will bind on itself and you’ll spend a lot of time and hassle having to stop progress to unbind it because the line won’t come out when you tap it. Keep extra full spools nearby or in your pocket to quickly swap out. I keep my machine running 90-95% of the time I bill my clients for and can clear more area than two people typically can.
You mean the correct way? 🙂
Great video - good energy and enjoyable to watch. Thanks.
Thanks for the pro tip!! Love the farm, can not wait to try this and see the difference.
Dude this video is a God send thank you 🙏💯
Glad it helped
I have a Echo with a speed feed super easy to load, and i'm using Vortex line by Rotary. The Echo speed feed head would be worth trying, and are not expensive.
Thanks Bud. Been a while since I've done it and needed a quick refresher.
Great post and east to follow. Made the string replacement very easy!!
I have a Stihl FS 91 and I love the trimmer. I use Stihl .95 thick line. X type line safety yellow in color. Have had very good luck with it. The Oregon line I tried I wasn't too impressed with.
I went with Echo due to the speedfeed head and because it's a true 2 stroke. BTW, your videos are great!
Hey thank you for the insight. This video truly saved me a ton of frustration as well as time!