How to Load a String Trimmer

Tom MacCubbin: Here it has happened again, I’m out of trimmer line. I’m not always the best at doing this so we’ve got to how-to videos going to help you can me sponsored by Echo Outdoor Power Equipment. I’m visiting my good friend Andy Sadlon and Andy’s will outdoor equipment and Andy, can you help me out. I’m not always too good at this. Maybe we can help some other people too.

Andy Sadlon: Sure. First thing we need to do is know the rotation of the head and actually on the top of the shield here, it shows the arrow for the rotation.

Tom MacCubbin: Okay. It looks like there's a little one in here too as well.

Andy Sadlon: Yeah, and what we’re going to do is we’re going to actually hold on to the spool.

Tom MacCubbin: Okay.

Andy Sadlon: And we’re going to rotate, push down and rotate the head in the opposite direction takes the spool off for us.

Tom MacCubbin: Okay, let’s start by the manual that comes with this will give us all the information also.

Andy Sadlon: Absolutely.

Tom MacCubbin: But it’s easier if somebody shows you like Andy’s doing.

Andy Sadlon: Sure and now we’ve got our spool off. There are some eyelets in here for us to put our line into and there's also arrow on the face of the spool. It shows us what direction we’re going to align the line into.

Tom MacCubbin: Okay, good. Let me hold that for you. Now I can do that much anyway, yeah.

Andy Sadlon: We need to get our trimmer line, the Echo Premium trimmer line here in 09-5000 as we want to use and what we’re going to need is about 20 feet.

Tom MacCubbin: Okay.

Andy Sadlon: So usually what I’ll do is I just pull threes arms of lengths.

Tom MacCubbin: Let’s see you do that, okay. Just the way my grandma used to measure fabric from there to there.

Andy Sadlon: And that gets me close.

Tom MacCubbin: Here we go, okay so we cutting it now.

Andy Sadlon: Yeah—

Tom MacCubbin: We cut it nice and heavy duty.

Andy Sadlon: We cut that off.

Tom MacCubbin: Okay.

Andy Sadlon: Now, some people have trouble with it, wrap it up like this and I’ve got a tick for us later on.

Tom MacCubbin: Okay.

Andy Sadlon: That will help us.

Tom MacCubbin: Okay, I see the problem.

Andy Sadlon: You don’t knot up very easily on it.

Tom MacCubbin: It does, I know I can tell you.

Andy Sadlon: I'm going to stick the line through the little eyelets and—

Tom MacCubbin: Okay so you there a little eyelet in there, okay.

Andy Sadlon: And what I’m going to do is I’m going to pull it even as best as possible.

Tom MacCubbin: Okay.

Andy Sadlon: So we’ve got equal lengths to match.

Tom MacCubbin: Oh you’re good. You go just about right there, wow and quickly too. Okay, what’s next?

Andy Sadlon: Well we’re going to wind it in the same direction that that arrow shows. We’re going to fold this back over.

Tom MacCubbin: Okay bring it back over top the eyelet.

Andy Sadlon: And what we need to do is keep this pulled very tight as we wrap it. We don’t want it to become lose because when it comes lose, it’s going to start to bind underneath each piece.

Tom MacCubbin: Okay.

Andy Sadlon: And it’s going to get stock when you try and pump it out.

Tom MacCubbin: So keep it in tight; just make sure you don’t twist it back and forth when you’re doing it.

Andy Sadlon: Correct.

Tom MacCubbin: Kind to keep the line between your fingers just like this here.

Andy Sadlon: Correct.

Tom MacCubbin: Okay, very good. You're keeping a good job.

Andy Sadlon: Keep them separate and side by side so they—

Tom MacCubbin: Yeah.

Andy Sadlon: Work together.

Tom MacCubbin: And again this is in the instruction manual, don’t panic.

Andy Sadlon: There are two notches in this spool little cells we’re going to hook our line into those notches and its going to help it hold it together—

Tom MacCubbin: Okay.

Andy Sadlon: For us as we try and feed the line through the actual eyelets.

Tom MacCubbin: Yeah, I can help you do that. I can grab on the back side there going through the little hole just inside the head here and coming through the other side, here we go. And this is a brand new piece of equipment so sometimes a little hard getting ahead to set in there, right.

Andy Sadlon: I’m going to align that up and I’m going to hold into the spool again and I’m going to push down and turn it into the locking position.

Tom MacCubbin: Put out a lot of pressure, there you go.

Andy Sadlon: And now it’s lock. Once it’s lock, you’re going to pull out on the string and what we’re going to do is we’re going to do is we’re going to pull out this two little notches we put it here.

Tom MacCubbin: Oh okay.

Andy Sadlon: so the heads are really ready to go now.

Tom MacCubbin: So you had to pull it pretty—

Andy Sadlon: Correct. You can even trim this by hand which I would because I left some quite a bit length it here but otherwise once you start it up, its going to hit the cutter and kind of take the proper way.

Tom MacCubbin: That’s it right off. Now you got an easy way. If you can't do this, Andy has a lot a little easier way here.

Andy Sadlon: For our pro attachments here is we have an actual attachment with our rapid little head on there and what this is a quick loader and it uses precut line by the lengths of line already precut.

Tom MacCubbin: How about that?

Andy Sadlon: they have a little locking mechanism in the head so the string gets worn down, you just go grab a brand new one, slide it in place and you're ready to go.

Tom MacCubbin: Well, I think I can do that. Andy thank you so much.

Andy Sadlon: You’re welcome.

Tom MacCubbin: Boy, you got to bind here. I hope you get to have it bind also and for more how to videos, visit HisandHersGardening.com.