Cordless tools can feel like a godsend to the home gardener who is frustrated with power cords. With cordless tools, your hands are free and the length of the cord no longer restricts you. These tools are powered by rechargeable nickel-cadmium or lead-acid tool batteries, with charge cycles ranging from a half and hour to 45 minutes. Besides providing more range, cordless tools have the additional advantage of protecting the user from electrical shock. A cordless string trimmer is a pole with a small battery-powered engine attached to it. The engine powers a piece of string made from tough plastic, causing it to whip around at high speed to cut weeds and grass. String trimmers weigh about 10 pounds. They are a good tool to use when clearing grass away from trees and flowerbeds after mowing. Grass shears are a small battery-powered tool with stainless steel blades for trimming grass around patios, walkways and flowerbeds. Grass shears are useful for cutting grass and weeds in places where a string trimmer could cause damage, such as areas where there are delicate plants or next to siding. You can choose from hand-held or long-handled models. Blades come in several lengths, with 3-inch and 4-inch the most popular. Cordless hedge trimmers are a held-held power tool battery with a long toothed blade used to trim shrubs and hedges. A great advantage to being without a cord with this tool is that it eliminates the danger of slicing though the power cord while trimming. Most hedge trimmers have a 22-inch blade and weigh 5 to 16 pounds., depending on the model. Cordless mini-tillers are rapidly becoming standard equipment for the home gardener. This tool has revolving tines that cultivate soil. You can adjust the depth of cultivation on most mini-tillers, depending on the task at hand. For instance, they can be adjusted to a few inches when removing crabgrass from an area, or up to a foot when sod-busting or turning crop-covers. A variety of models of BOSCH batteries are available, ranging from hand-held tilling attachments that can be added to a string trimmer to the larger, bulkier models for deep tilling.
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