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View Poll Results: Which Bed Edger is Best?
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8 hp Brown Bed Edger
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14 |
51.85% |
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EZ Trencher Bed Scaper
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7.41% |
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13 hp Little Wonder Bed Shaper
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7.41% |
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Turf Teg Sidewinder
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11.11% |
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Just rent whats available
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7.41% |
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Use your sod cutter/sod knife
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4 |
14.81% |
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03-09-2006, 11:04 PM
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Gold Oak Member
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Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Monroe, NC
USDA Zone 10
Posts: 678
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Let us know how that Bluebird performs.
I'm sure your life just got a lot easier, I do so many new plant installs that i don't know what I'd do without ours. ( Maybe use my "sod knife"? )
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03-09-2006, 11:27 PM
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Administrator
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Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Wisconsin
USDA Zone 4
Posts: 7,549
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I'm picturing Voodoo on his knees with what we use for a sod knife (which is a carpet knife), edging a bed. And I'm thinking "Man, this guy really is old school. I bet he uses a sod kicker to strip sod, too."
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03-10-2006, 01:27 AM
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Gold Oak Member
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: Lake Geneva, WI
USDA Zone 5
Posts: 1,242
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Uhmmm, not quite guys...
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03-10-2006, 01:29 AM
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Gold Oak Member
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: Lake Geneva, WI
USDA Zone 5
Posts: 1,242
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"Sod knife" means about as much as "Pine tree".
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03-10-2006, 09:02 AM
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Whip
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Join Date: Feb 2004
USDA
Posts: 302
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OK, am I blind?  I don't see the Bluebird on the choices. 
Had you asked, I would have given good feedback on that one too. We have been renting one the last couple years when needed. Works waaaaayyyyyy better than the Ryan sod cutter.
I've seen one of those knives before, the handle didn't fit my hand.  |
03-10-2006, 11:02 AM
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Ranger
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Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: Southwest ct
USDA Zone 6
Posts: 1,742
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I was with the landscape crew at my first job after school and told to cut the edge. I went to the truck looking for that very tool. I call it the half moon edge cutting thingy. They didn't use one. I learned to cut the edge with a spade that day.
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03-10-2006, 01:27 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Wisconsin
USDA Zone 4
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Quote:
Originally posted by Mark Oomkes
OK, am I blind? I don't see the Bluebird on the choices.
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I think that was the joke - the one option not on the list was the one he chose, tongue-in-cheek saying it was the voters' choice.
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04-15-2006, 08:47 PM
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Seedling
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Join Date: Mar 2006
USDA
Posts: 105
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So have you used the BB Edger yet? If so what do you think of it?
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04-17-2006, 11:33 PM
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Sapling
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Join Date: Aug 2005
USDA
Posts: 275
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I thought the EZ Trencher was the "Brown" edger???
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04-19-2006, 07:49 PM
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Sapling
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Join Date: Aug 2005
USDA
Posts: 275
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sorry I saw a ez trencher today, two totally different machines
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04-19-2006, 08:05 PM
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Gold Oak Member
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: Lake Geneva, WI
USDA Zone 5
Posts: 1,242
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The Bluebird Bed Bug is a very well-designed machine, easy to run and to train someone to run.
I've put 2 days in on it, the Employee of the Century logged several days, and the new guy just finished day 3.
The only drawback so far has been Employee of the Century grinding through a rock and breaking the $225 blade....that and cutting some irrigation lines that were practically at surface level.
Doesn't like wet soil; clogs the chute, bogging down the engine, but I don't hold that against it.
I couldn't justify the purchase for our existing maintenance accounts, but for all the edging at the new place, it was money well spent.
Last edited by VoodooChile : 04-19-2006 at 08:09 PM.
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04-19-2006, 11:25 PM
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Ranger
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Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: Southwest ct
USDA Zone 6
Posts: 1,742
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Holy cow! You've been spending DAYS edging with a bededger!
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As a father I was always aware that I was raising my sons to leave home, marry, establish families, and be men who could stand on their own two feet. We must fulfill our own destiny. I really wasn't concerned about what they might 'do' but I wanted them to 'be' good men.
- David Epps
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04-19-2006, 11:58 PM
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Gold Oak Member
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: Lake Geneva, WI
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Yup!
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04-20-2006, 12:19 AM
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Gold Oak Member
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: Lake Geneva, WI
USDA Zone 5
Posts: 1,242
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Here's a look at part of the front yard.
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04-20-2006, 12:22 AM
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Gold Oak Member
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: Lake Geneva, WI
USDA Zone 5
Posts: 1,242
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We've been creating large tree rings and defining beds with the edger here.
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