I love the name "strimmer"! I only recently figured out that it must come from "string trimmer." And you're right, over here we do call them weed whackers--but I knew the other term because that's what Wakanomori, being from the UK, always called them. We have one of those too, or did, but my recollection is that there was something fiddly about it that made it hard to operate. But maybe it was just cumbersome. It's probably just a matter of getting used to things.

I think--I hope!--that I'm going to like the fine control that a sickle gives me. But I have only tiny patches of long grass. If I had more, I'm betting I'd try to go find and resurrect the strimmer.