As lawn and garden equipment goes, none seems to have as many names as the noble weed trimmer — aka weed wacker, weed eater, weed cutter, string trimmer, strimmer or, in some circles, brush trimmer ...

For those who don’t mind constantly adding tiny but measurable amounts of microplastics to their landscaping, string trimmers are an excellent way of maintaining edging around garden beds, trimming ...

In the South, they call it boondoggle. In Canada, they call it scooby-doo. On the East Coast, it’s known as a lanyard. The manufacturers just call it gimp. Whatever it’s called, we’re talking about ...

Don’t throw away that empty plastic bottle yet. You can make some super durable string with it using a few basic hardware components. If you have some empty plastic bottles lying around, Instructables ...

Do you own a small block of wood and a knife? Looking for something MacGyver-esque to do with all those plastic bottles you’ve got piled up? Constantly find yourself short of string? If the stars ...