Walensee Weed Grass Cutter with Serrated Double-edged Sharp Blade Manual Grass Whip with 30 Inch Steel Handle Cut Overgrown Weeds Cutting Hand Tool Steel Sod Cutter for Garden, Yard, Field and Ditches

This is a pretty good weed whacker. I would say it cut most of the weeds in the back yard and its worth the money. It is quick to assemble and handy to have around when there are tall weed patches. However, I don't think it takes the place of mowing. It can cut tall grass, but to do that in the whole yard would be a tiresome project, and it can't cut the corners of the yard because you can't swing it there. I also used it on some really tall and tough weeds half my height with thick stalks that I was unable to uproot by hand, and it cut them right down. I swung it like a golf club, or sometimes one-handed like a pendulum as I walked through the yard. I think the handle is the right length because if it were any longer it would be awkward and difficult to swing (and I'm 6 feet tall). The only issue with it is the gripper tends to slide off the handle after several swings, but I just push it back on. Be careful putting it together because the blade can cut you. An Allen wrench is included, and so is a small super thin wrench, but I did not find that very useful. Anyway, it definitely works. It was even kind of fun, but the next day I had a sore shoulder from using it.

Works great no problems.

This whip comes disassembled and there are instructions rolled up in an advertisement for their other products. There are square holes in the metal that correspond to square portions on the bolts included. The tools you need to assemble this are included, but a proper box wrench and allen key would be easier to use than the cheap ones in the box.First, the blade is sharp and when I say sharp I mean sharp enough to hurt you if you don't exercise caution handling it. I recommend using gloves to assemble this product.It took about six minutes to assemble with the included tools. The blade doesn't state which side is up, but the top is the side with the serrations.This whip is heavier and sturdier than the hickory handled whip I own. The proper way to use a whip is to slightly bend at the knees and keep your back straight while swinging with objective of the blade swinging parallel to the ground. I am six-foot-four and was able to swing this with one hand, but the weight caused me to shift hands and for thicker grass I used two hands.The key is to let the whipping action and the weight of the whip do most of the work, this is not a bat and the grass a baseball. Gravity and the weight of the whip and sharp blade will do the work for you.I was able to cut a huge swarth in an overgrown lot in a little under an hour. This thing cut through grass, dandelions, weeds, and small pencil sized branched with little effort. I highly recommend this item, but be warned you will get a workout using it.

It is very sturdy for the price you pay however it does not come with any instructions and I almost feel as if some of the pieces did not align quite right and I have to maneuver them quite a bit to get everything together. The design of the product itself works great but the handle is short. I am 5'4" and felt like I had to bend over to use it. It cuts OK despite the blades being sharp. If you have weeds that are thinner, another product might be better. For the tall and thicker weeds, it did work relatively well.

It had the strangest problem. The orange part needs two pairs of holes to attach it to the handle (two on each side) and one pair of holes to attach it to the blade (one on each side). Mine came with three holes for attaching the handle (two on one side and only one on the other). Now this is the strange part. It has three holes at the bottom part for attaching the blade. Two are used for attaching the blade and one doesn't do anything. Without the double bolts for attaching the handle it cannot be used. How did this even happen? When that Amazon truck pulled up I put on my sun hat and grabbed a big jug of lemonade, ready the whack some weeds. Now I am just sitting here writing this review.

Well designed. All metal and has a good weight . Blade is extremely sharp and cuts substantially better than my old wooden handle Ames.

As a reel mower user, I'm plagued by seed stalks of grass too tall and tough to get sucked into the reel. This dispatches them effectively. But it is a bit of a workout. To clip every stalk, you need to swing the tool in good, wide arcs. You can go back and forth and cut on both swing and backswing -- it sometimes takes two or three hits to really trim 'em down -- but you need to get the head of the tool pretty high at the end of each arc, around head level, if you're gonna build up enough speed to do some damage.Assembly is easy, but it'll be much easier if you have a socket set and ratchet. The nuts are too stubborn to hand-tighten, at least for me, and the wrench it comes with is as basic as they get -- tough to turn without it slipping off.

I was excited to try this product to keep a wildflower area tidy - knocking down the grasses. But it would take 3- to 4- passes of the blade to get the grasses cut and sometimes even then the grass wouldn't cut. I suspect I wasn't 'whipping' the blade fast enough - but I didn't want to lose control and cut a desirable flower either. I returned this. Will stick to my gas weed wacker.