I purchased this after dealing with aggressive weeds and grass growing quickly and strong over my sidewalk and driveway; I had been using a weed eater / edger but the roots were touch for my electric weed eater so I would end up using hand tools to remove the excess grass and weeds. That would take me hours to do several feet, now with this edger it takes me minutes to do my entire front yard (corner lot), it leaves the edges so nice that it looks like a pro did it, and I'm no pro.