Customer Reviews

Yard Butler Lawn Step Edger EDGE-180

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This item was purchased for a relative, after our having owned and used one for over a year. Our soil is mainly clay, so an edger gets a workout. The Yard Butler Lawn Step Edger is a very well-made product that can withstand the use and abuse that such products get, and does so better than any similar product we have used. We find it is also useful for other yard chores such as digging a shallow trench. The wide platform on the edger allows for stabillity during use and good pressure to complete whatever chore it is expected to do. We feel confidant that the edger will continue to provide years of service since it is well constructed and does not appear susceptable to bending or breaking.

The handle is simply too short for anyone 6' or over and the blade is more akin to a blunt instrument than a cutting tool. The "step edger" element of the tool is a real plus but, taken as a whole, this "tool" makes edging a much more difficult job than it ought to be. In the end, you'll have to work too hard to make the thing cut and stoop too low to make the job pain free. Pay more and get the Spear & Jackson e-series edging knife--at least I wish I had.

Worked great! Used it to "uncover" some stepping stones that had been grown over with tough grass. So much easier than other things we had tried. Cut through grass and soil and made a perfect cut around the stepping stones.

I bought this exact item from a local retailer last year. It survived a few uses and then suddenly failed when applying downward force from my foot (on the foot stand) on a stubborn piece of ground. As the tool tilted from the half moon shape the pressure from my foot caused the main rod to bend completely out of line. I was unable to bend it back. Take a look at the thickness of the metal on this tool. If you're working in hard clay I would get something more solid. This is not a heavy duty tool. If anything the foot stand should be removed as it infers you can apply your body weight to aid the tool... I wouldn't recommend it.

I'll have to say it's nothing like the pictures they show you, you shove it from the side of the edge really hard, with step facing upwards and cuts into the soil, the you erect it and while at it give the step a few good kicks which is now away from you instead of in front of you like the pictures shown, stomp on it to make sure it cuts into the soil which you shovel upon, stomp on it again to make sure soil being erected will move up along the edger, and give it a final stomp when the edger is being fully erected to make sure everything stays in place, so that's 3 hard stomps for every few inchs on lawn edge, all withe the step facing away from you. The handle could have been longer, the step can be wider, the blade can be thicker and more axe like, and the finished of the blade will probably not there after you finished you lawn edge, grease it or it will rust.