> There is a trick to using a weed eater. Always cut while swinging to the left. The cutting string rotates clockwise and if you cut while swinging right, it does the salad makeover trick on you. Swing left and most, but not all, of the salad will fly out away from you. This is very important when weed-eating poison ivy.

I wonder if my Weed Eater (I capitalize it becuase it *is* a brand name, you know, and we must protect it from becoming common usage like the escalator and the kleenex) rotates the other way? I was swinging it both ways, and I noticed that it seemed to cut better when I was swinging it from left to right than the other direction.

Gri"why haven't I heard from the Rinky Landscaping Crew yet?"shny