I’m glad I didn’t go with a gasoline model. It doesn’t get any better. Had I known there had been this much improvement I wouldn’t have waited for the old one to die. It does a great job at edging making it a quick and easy job. It does this much faster than a string trimmer and the result is much cleaner. I’ve used the Edge Hog a few times when the grass has grown over the walk so much that the edger has to chew through half an inch or more of thatch. The blade would still spin but I would get build-up in the protective shield around it. Cleaning it out was a piece of cake.

I bought an extra blade expecting to tear up at least one blade trying to get the hang of it. Not necessary, I can’t imagine damaging the thick metal blade, that doesn’t need sharpening. We did find that when doing this, since you’re pushing the thing over sod and such, it will lift the entire machine up a little bit. So I set it for 1 1/4″ depth and did the first run, and then repeated it at the recommended 1″ depth to clean up the little bits that were left. Worked like a charm. Someone already mentioned NOT using this when the ground is really wet.

This product is excellent. Plenty of power, it does the job well. My old edger always seemed to want to come unplugged as I was using it and I didn’t seem to have that problem with the Edge Hog. I did much research before buying it and most of the reviews were very positive and I would tend to agree with them.