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Bedscaper questions

vavet

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I have some landscaping projects coming up. I put in a planting bed along our property line about 9 years ago. At the time, I dug out narrow areas to put 3x4 inch landscape Timbers as a border, knowing it would be a temporary solution. Well, the time has come they need to to be replaced. They are rotting away.

ive looked at pouring my own borders with quikrete and I might do that. I also really like the interlocking retaining wall blocks, even though I don’t really need that feature for just a few courses.

the most physically demanding part of the project (I think) is digging out the ground, whether it’s for a poured concrete feature or the blocks. I recently learned about the existence of these bedscaping tools.
the daily rental rate is pretty reasonable, I think.
I don’t think the trench it would dig out would be wide enough for the blocks, but I guess I can just offset the machine and go down a parallel route to widen it?

I have several areas I would probably do while I had the machine rented. if you’ve used one, are there any nuances or things you wish you would’ve known before using it?
 
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bigfunwmu

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Once upon a time I spend a whole bunch of a couple summers doing things with a bed edger like that one. We had 3 blades for it. The most common blade we used cut a triangle shaped trench. It was about 4" deep on the deep side which was vertical and towards the lawn, it would slope up to flush on the planting bed side and allow thin edging to go into the hole along the lawn side and mulch to come up to the back side of it 3-4" deep.

We also had a narrow deep blade that would cut about 8" deep and 1.5" wide and a wide deep blade that would cut 8" deep and 4" wide.

The triangle one might work for block edging, but you will need to do some spade work to get the flat bottom trench for the block to sit nicely. Not sure if they have a 4" wide 4" deep blade, but wouldn't be surprised if they made one.
 
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