Kfm Lunch with EB Inglis: The origin of the weed eater
Lunch with EB Inglis · 9 July 2026 · 2m
Speaker 1: Have you ever wondered about the history of the wheat eater? All right, I had Speaker 1: no idea that this was the history of the weed eater. So just in case Speaker 1: you don't know about it, A guy by the name of George C. Ballas, Senior Speaker 1: was a Houston entrepreneur best known for inventing the weed eater. Yes you heard the Speaker 1: surname correctly. Ballas got the idea for the weed eater whilst sitting in a car Speaker 1: wash. He wondered whether the idea of spinning bristles like the ones cleaning his car Speaker 1: could be applied to trimming grass and weeds in areas a lawn mower couldn't reach. Speaker 1: He experimented with fishing wire that poked through holes in a tin can attached to Speaker 1: the rotary of a lawn edger and found that the spinning wires easily sliced through Speaker 1: the grass. Yeah, so that is how it came about. Ballas founded the his weed Speaker 1: eater company in Houston in nineteen seventy one. So thanks to me, either operate a Speaker 1: weed eater or you see the guys with those industrial sized weed eaters that's doing Speaker 1: the landscaping, then you will now know the history of how the weed eater came Speaker 1: about. Now, obviously in America they call it a weed whacker, or the original name, Speaker 1: which I didn't know for the weed eater was actually a string trummer. Now with Speaker 1: a surname like Ballast, I thought he'd be more interested in a treumer that handles Speaker 1: other kinds of bushes. The irony is that there is actually a body treumer from Speaker 1: a brand called Manscaped, called the lawn Mower. Now…
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