I grew up in California near the bay area calling them weed whackers.
I grew up in California near the bay area calling them weed whackers.
Same.
New England, weed whackers here too.
Midwest, weed whacker here as well.
Northeast US - weed whacker
Whipper Snipper here in Aus
Now you listen here young whipper snipper! Why, in my day…
Yup. Australian here. Is what we call em.
That’s the predominant one in Canada too, at least in my experience.
Goes with a Chipper Shredder (Woodchipper), sure there’s probably other things named the same way.
Can’t tell if you’re taking the piss haha.
It’s legit.
I’m trying to spread that term here in the SE US. Everyone looks confused so I say “string trimmer”. “you mean weed eater?”
Southern US. Weed whacker.
Weedeater, weed whacker, or trimmer. In that order of descending use.
I almost always use the first one, weedeater.
My dad liked to use Weedeater as a sort of verb. To Weedeap. So he’d love to say he was going outside to weedeap the knee deep weeds.
Same here, but almost never use trimmer. Edit: Pittsburgh here.
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From the UK and in my region they are called Strimmers.
Oh, I like this.
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Whipper-Snipper (Australia)
Canada too. Also weed eater, even though that’s a brand name
That’s what we call our ankle-biters in the part of Canada I grew up in ^/s
I feel like weed Whacker/Eater are brands like Kleenex. In my head it is a string trimmer.
I usually say “I’m going to trim the yard”.
Oregon. I have only ever heard them called weed eaters.
Alabama here. Battery and mains powered ones are generally called weed eaters.
The gas powered ones are called a string of curses that would get me banned. Usually while trying to get them to crank. There’s a reason I went electric.
Up in Canada, I’ve only ever heard weed whacker
Weed whackers and weed eaters were used fairly interchangeably where I grew up in the US southwest and mountain west.
Weedeater or strimmer in NZ
I don’t think I’ve ever heard strimmer, though it does seem to be a thing when I search it up. I would say Weed eater, weed whacker, or line trimmer.
Strimmer out here in Bermuda too
American south, weed eaters
