hello my name is Dan lesser I am one of the owners and operator of D Callister weary landscape contractor in a lovely city awash Google state of Washington today I'm going to demonstrate how to use a manual hedger we have a soft edge here what we're going to do is bring it out a little bit away from the bark so basically you just take the edger put it in the ground foot on it hold the stick firmly push down get in the ground wiggle it pull it up move over a bit same thing wiggle get a nice deep cut again there you go okay we're going to take about two inches out of this grass to extend the bark dust there you go okay and with this one you can pull it up a little bit but you want to be careful now we're going to cut it on the other side so we get a nice good strip and if you're really good at this sometimes if you've got some bad areas in your grass you could take this grass and go plant it somewhere okay lay it down and should pull right up put your hands in there and now nice good strip of grass cut it back move your bark in you got a new edge it's a lot cleaner than what we had had