Lord Kelvin<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://cathode.church/@SocialGaff" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>SocialGaff</span></a></span><br>Why a <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PoleHedgeTrimmer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PoleHedgeTrimmer</span></a> you might ask? Am I a topiary sculptor?</p><p>No. I am not.</p><p>But I'm a <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HamRadio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HamRadio</span></a> guy, & though I've got a very good <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LineTrimmer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LineTrimmer</span></a>, I have way too many places where the INVISIBLE part of a line trimmer loves to grab a thing it touches, pull it in, & wreck $#!+.</p><p>But a pole hedge trimmer is 100% visible all the time. I can carefully get within an inch of a thing that I absolutely must not touch.</p><p>2 yrs, & I've accidentally clipped a cable ONCE. Big improvement.</p>