My strimmer is a prick

[Vitriolinsanity]

Why????? Why does the cord keeping disappearing after I turn it on?????

Is it a petrol or electric strimmer? If the former, YANBU on principle- all petrol strimmers (and all petrol engines relying on a pull cord to start) are the work of Satan.

Have you got the instructions? You should be able to pop the cover off the top of the cord reservoir and pull more cord through. Or there might be another method to pull more cord out.

As in it’s spinning so fast you can’t see it, or it’s disappearing into the spool? In which case, take it off and check it’s not trapped or incorrectly wound, then put it back on.

It's the gardening equivalent of a wifi printer. Good luck!

If it's been out all winter like mine last year, the cutting cord got weathered and brittle and as it was tightly wound it broke every time it tried to feed forward. I had to fit a new spool before it drove me nuts. Might have been a cheap replacement spool I was using at the time, it's been alright since.

Pull out a long length before you turn on?

It is!!!

I've managed to effect an edge.

Omg this was me last year. I can't work out how to get the threads to stay out longer than 2 seconds.

Haha. My printer failed after the 976th time (it was also very old at this point) ...I picked it up and threw it in the wheely bin in a rage 😂😆

Disclaimer. When I calmed down I did dispose of it in an environmentally friendly way.

If your lawn is, like mine, hugely overgrown it might be breaking it every time if you are going for solid clumps? Like chippers they can only handle a set "thickness" so you kind of have to sidle up to it, like a buzz cut.

Fecking annoying things though, I just ram the mower over the lawn after it's dried up now and patiently unclog it every 4 mins. Better than wafting the strimmer about until my arm wants to fall off just to trim the grass equivalent of a solitary nostril hair.