Using an edger to clean-up the boarders of lawns gives yards a finished, professional look. Edgers are useful for creating a neat line of trimmed grass along paved areas in your yard, including sidewalks, driveways and patios.
Types of Lawn Edgers
Most of the edgers carried by Richardson Saw & Lawnmower are pole-style. They are designed much like a string-line trimmer, with a powerhead at one end and a cutting head at the other end. The cutting head typically consists of a vertical cutting wheel, a blade guard, and a guide wheel to maintain a straight line while you’re edging.
Other edgers are designed to be free-standing push styles with four wheels. This type of edger features a hardened steel blade on a cutting head designed to rotate 90 degrees, which lets you trim just 1/4 inch away from fences and walls. A debris shield and blade guard protects the operator from the cutting blade and flying debris.
Premium Edger Brands
Echo’s edgers are lightweight and easy-to-maneuver. Most of their edger models features a Pro-Torque gear case that provides 20% more torque than traditional equipment. This includes the curved-shaft PE-230 and PE-280 models. They are also equipped with a metal shield to help keep material from clogging up around the blade. The PE-266S model also features a straight shaft that reduces cable wear.
Shindaiwa offers two trimmer models. Both feature a height-adjustable guide wheel, and steel skid plate, and an open face shield. The Shindaiwa LE242 model is powered by a 2-stroke engine. The Shindaiwa LE254 is equipped with a high torque, low emissions 2/4 stroke engine
Stihl edgers are designed with heavy-duty, dependable components. The 8-inch hardened steel blades are long lasting, but also easy to replace when necessary. Their homeowner model, the FC 56 C-E Edger, is very lightweight and simple to operate. Most of Stihl’s edgers are professional models, with low-emission engines. These include the FC-70, FC-90, FC-95, and FC-110 models, which each have unique features and increasingly powerful engines.
Multi-Tools
Lawns don’t need edging every time you mow. Once or twice a season is often enough to keep the lawn looking trimmed. If you’re a homeowner who won’t be using the edger all that frequently, it might be a good idea to invest in a multi-tool system instead of a dedicated edger. That way, you only have to store and maintain one powerhead to have several different tools.
Echo’s Pro-Attachemnt Series offers a curved-shaft edger that is compatible with all their powerheads, and a straight-shaft edger that works with the PAS-230, PAS-266, and PAS-280 powerheads. Other tool attachments that you can swap-out with the edgers include several string-line trimmers, a blower, hedge trimmers, and a tiller/cultivator.
The Stihl KombiSystem also includes curved and straight-shaft edgers. Other attachments include string-line trimmers, a power scythe, hedge trimmers, a pole pruner, and sweeper attachments for clean-up work.
