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Wire netting and strimmers, what do others do?
We have lots of rabbit fencing (and lots of rabbits) and I'm forever
trying to come up with a practical way of strimming close up to the wire netting. For short sections I have put tanalised timber boards either side of the fence at ground level and this works well but it's relatively expensive and not practical for long sections. Has anyone here come up with a good solution to this problem? -- Chris Green |
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Wire netting and strimmers, what do others do?
wrote in message ... We have lots of rabbit fencing (and lots of rabbits) and I'm forever trying to come up with a practical way of strimming close up to the wire netting. For short sections I have put tanalised timber boards either side of the fence at ground level and this works well but it's relatively expensive and not practical for long sections. Has anyone here come up with a good solution to this problem? -- Chris Green Any of the Weedol, Roundup, type weed killers - just spray the 6" of ground at the base of the fences. I now buy it in bulk from the local agri-chem dealer for just this issue. AWEM |
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Wire netting and strimmers, what do others do?
wrote in message ... We have lots of rabbit fencing (and lots of rabbits) and I'm forever trying to come up with a practical way of strimming close up to the wire netting. For short sections I have put tanalised timber boards either side of the fence at ground level and this works well but it's relatively expensive and not practical for long sections. Has anyone here come up with a good solution to this problem? Increase the idle speed of the strimmer (If petrol) and strim as usual on a fast idle rather than full revs. Otherwise as someone else says Weedol it |
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Wire netting and strimmers, what do others do?
Andrew Mawson wrote:
wrote in message ... We have lots of rabbit fencing (and lots of rabbits) and I'm forever trying to come up with a practical way of strimming close up to the wire netting. For short sections I have put tanalised timber boards either side of the fence at ground level and this works well but it's relatively expensive and not practical for long sections. Has anyone here come up with a good solution to this problem? Any of the Weedol, Roundup, type weed killers - just spray the 6" of ground at the base of the fences. I now buy it in bulk from the local agri-chem dealer for just this issue. Possible in some (many) places but not everywhere due to adjacent plants that I don't want to die. -- Chris Green |
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Wire netting and strimmers, what do others do?
On 15 June, 18:18, "R" wrote:
wrote in message ... We have lots of rabbit fencing (and lots of rabbits) and I'm forever trying to come up with a practical way of strimming close up to the wire netting. For short sections I have put tanalised timber boards either side of the fence at ground level and this works well but it's relatively expensive and not practical for long sections. Has anyone here come up with a good solution to this problem? Increase the idle speed of the strimmer (If petrol) and strim as usual on a fast idle rather than full revs. Otherwise as someone else says Weedol it Some of the current strimmers have a wire frame that can be folded down to limit how close you can get to an object - mainly aimed at trees and shrubs but would solve this problem too. I'm sure a simple add-on could be made to any existing strimmer. Rob |
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Wire netting and strimmers, what do others do?
wrote in message ... We have lots of rabbit fencing (and lots of rabbits) and I'm forever trying to come up with a practical way of strimming close up to the wire netting. For short sections I have put tanalised timber boards either side of the fence at ground level and this works well but it's relatively expensive and not practical for long sections. Has anyone here come up with a good solution to this problem? -- Chris Green I use the missus, she holds a piece of hardboard against the fence and keeps moving along |
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Wire netting and strimmers, what do others do?
brass monkey wrote:
wrote in message ... We have lots of rabbit fencing (and lots of rabbits) and I'm forever trying to come up with a practical way of strimming close up to the wire netting. For short sections I have put tanalised timber boards either side of the fence at ground level and this works well but it's relatively expensive and not practical for long sections. Has anyone here come up with a good solution to this problem? -- Chris Green I use the missus, she holds a piece of hardboard against the fence and keeps moving along I do that when next door's fence goes green from lack of sun light. She goes the other side of the fence and I blast it with the pressure washer. Never got a direct hit on her yet though :-( Dave |
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