How to clear fence line weeds without destroying the trimmer
Using a whipper snipper along a wire mesh fence causes the line or head to get caught and shred itself to pieces. This prevents property owners from cleaning up overgrown vegetation and grass without ruining their equipment.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
- 1Spraying a strip of herbicide along the fence line
- 2Installing a baseboard or pole to mow up to the edges
- 3Using animals like goats or sheep to keep grass short
- 4Placing plastic or rubber barrier strips under the fence
- 5Cutting them at the base and waiting for the vine to die off over winter
- 6Digging up the root
- 7Yanking them down directly
In their words
Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.
“what I’m struggling with is the fence line. I’ve tried using a whipper snipper to clean it up but it just gets caught in the fence.”source ↗
“Man I got the same problem on my property, whipper snipper just destroys itself on that wire mesh.”source ↗
“how do I tear morning glories down by hand without electrocuting myself whenever their roots are wrapped clean around a power line right near my house, that's still live?”source ↗
Where this came up
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