This one I burned out after two battery changes. Literally, there was smoke coming out of the engine.

Weed Wacker, Electric Weed Wacker Cordless Trimmer, Retractable and Foldable Home Weed Eater Brush Cutter, Portable Battery Power Rechargeable Handheld Lawn Mower for Lawn, Yard, Garden https://a.co/d/1UJzDvu

So I then ordered this one which claims the serious run time on the actual engine rather than battery run time.


Brushless String Trimmer, Cordless String Trimmer/Edger, Electric Brush Cutter Weed Wacker, Adjustable Edger Trimmer Mini-Mower for Home and Garden https://a.co/d/6dC1ZkA

I've got serious brush. It's a combination of multi-year-old thin bushes that are mostly died off which have blueberry and raspberry and other vines filled with thorns choking it all out. My next door neighbor has a 4-ft wall with stones. The bushes are growing through the goddamn stones and taking over my space. And this is prime growing space. I want this space. I'm going to dig out the roots and till the land and create raised beds. But before I can do any of that I have to fight the brambles.

My stairs guys says that it looks like a perfect weapon to fight off a zombie apocalypse. It isn't. It has no staying power. It's got a high speed spin rate with absolutely no torque behind it. It catches. You have to use it like a weed wacker as you're slamming back and forth the brush.

This s*** will get caught in a zombie shoulder and then the thing will bite my head off.

Chainsaws are the next level up? I think. I actually have an electric one. I haven't plugged in yet and it scares me. I like the spinning blade on the long handle. It gives me decent control but I wish it was a bit more powerful.

I've cleared out about 10 ft wide and 4 ft deep of brush and I have another 200 ft to go. Hopefully I don't have to get a new tool every 10 ft. If I burn out the next one I'll move on to the chainsaw.

I had to haul some rocks up the hill, gravel, to fill in a 2-ft by 4 ft area an inch or 2 deep. I used a wheelbarrow.

Never f****** again. It took me four trips uphill.

So I got one of these:

Landworks Utility Service Cart Wheelbarrow Power Wagon Super Duty Electric 48V DC Li-Ion Battery Powered 500LBS Load & 1000LBS+ Hauling Capacity Farm & Garden Dump w/All Purpose Modular Cargo Bed https://a.co/d/9bUagRT


If I fill it with some weight it will get some traction and I should be able to do this.

I will never keep a chainsaw maintained. Therefore, it will kill me. And I am left-handed. Clumsily left-handed.

I'll stick with spinning blades at a slight distance. Or boxley's idea of yanking them down with a vehicle.


Actually no, damn it. Those bushes are embedded in my neighbors wall. And that wall is holding up her property. Her property is 4 ft higher than my property there. Then there's stones and then my property.

If I rip out any bushes at that location, the roots will easily rip out that wall since most of them are actually being fed through that.

Oh well, back to strictly spinning blade to start off with. After that I have a 3-ft by 6-in auger, electrical plug in that I can break that soil up and then have got a tilling machine.

I have bought a property that is incredibly overgrown and has been for years. It's not like you let a season go and now you have to cut some stuff out. Nope.

Keep in mind I'm the Pacific Northwest. About 1,000 ft to the ocean. All the moisture these plants could possibly want.

I have a 100 by 200 ft property and the 200 ft left and 100 ft back have at least 10 to 30 ft of brambles. Dense bushes and thorny vines.