Hand held electric trimmer

tat2ue said:

Don't know about you but I hate trimming. Especially if you do it a lot, like in a small perpetual grow-op. I trim about 40 plants every 2 to 3 weeks and my g/f and I have spent 6-8 hours at a time trimming. So I came up with a hand held electric trimmerthat does almost if not just as good as hand trimmers.

Went to Harbor Freight and got an electric rotary tool. Its like a dremel tool but this one only cost 9 bucks with a 50% off coupon. I took the barrel sanding attachment and removed the compression washer and the round barrel sander. Then I place a small piece weed eater line on top of the compression grommet and replaced and tightened the compression washer.

This has now cut my trimming time down by 75%...My g/f takes the larger fan leaves off and tosses me the bud and I start trimming. But you do need to wear some sort of eye protection though, I didn't at first then a small fragment of plant matter went in my eye and it burns like a mofo

It takes a cpl min to get used to and then you can trim like a sculptor

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black jesus said:

Damn this is a great idea. I was just looking at buy a bowl trimmer. Then I started looking at diy trimmers....I like this a lot and yes I know it's a million years old

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tat2ue said:

Don't know about you but I hate trimming. Especially if you do it a lot, like in a small perpetual grow-op. I trim about 40 plants every 2 to 3 weeks and my g/f and I have spent 6-8 hours at a time trimming. So I came up with a hand held electric trimmerthat does almost if not just as good as hand trimmers.

Went to Harbor Freight and got an electric rotary tool. Its like a dremel tool but this one only cost 9 bucks with a 50% off coupon. I took the barrel sanding attachment and removed the compression washer and the round barrel sander. Then I place a small piece weed eater line on top of the compression grommet and replaced and tightened the compression washer.

This has now cut my trimming time down by 75%...My g/f takes the larger fan leaves off and tosses me the bud and I start trimming. But you do need to wear some sort of eye protection though, I didn't at first then a small fragment of plant matter went in my eye and it burns like a mofo
It takes a cpl min to get used to and then you can trim like a sculptor

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tat2ue said:

Don't know about you but I hate trimming. Especially if you do it a lot, like in a small perpetual grow-op. I trim about 40 plants every 2 to 3 weeks and my g/f and I have spent 6-8 hours at a time trimming. So I came up with a hand held electric trimmerthat does almost if not just as good as hand trimmers.

Went to Harbor Freight and got an electric rotary tool. Its like a dremel tool but this one only cost 9 bucks with a 50% off coupon. I took the barrel sanding attachment and removed the compression washer and the round barrel sander. Then I place a small piece weed eater line on top of the compression grommet and replaced and tightened the compression washer.

This has now cut my trimming time down by 75%...My g/f takes the larger fan leaves off and tosses me the bud and I start trimming. But you do need to wear some sort of eye protection though, I didn't at first then a small fragment of plant matter went in my eye and it burns like a mofo

It takes a cpl min to get used to and then you can trim like a sculptor

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simply_slide said:

Still waiting to see some finished bud from this.

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Big smo said:

I think it works best for dry trimming. I had a few wet leaves and they didn't come off easy with the tool. Once they are dry dry just a touch with the line and they fly right off. The buds themselves are much harder than the leaves so after a few minute learning curve there is very little bud damage at all. It's fast and takes a little to get used to. The only thing that sucks about it is you get covered! I was a sticky mess. Oh and my hands are dirty from work not trimming. I actually think it's permanent View attachment 3749977

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thumper60 said:

u were sticky mess because u blew off half the trics, hand trim best an only way to go I have seen and smoked the auto trim crap that comes out of cali all I can say ripoff

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