Many people claim that they are the original inventor of the herbivore. There are those who claim that it was invented in England and others who believe that the weed beater was first invented in Japan. The reality is that George Ballas invented the weed eater in 1972 in Houston, Texas.

Ballas was an inventor and the founder of Weed Eater. He was recently interviewed by TheBuisnessMakers.com. Until Ballas invented the weed trimmer, people needed to trim weeds and lawn areas they couldn’t reach with their hands with a lawnmower or hedge trimmer, making the task very difficult and time consuming. , to say the least. It is also dangerous, as kneeling to hand-mow weedy areas makes you more susceptible to garden snakes or other snakes and rodents and wildlife to attack. Ballas noticed that this was not the best way to trim weeds in a lawn, so he began thinking of safer and easier ways to trim weeds in gardens.

As the story goes, George was taking his car to a car wash one day and was intrigued by the circular plastic brushes that cleaned between the cracks and crevices of the car without damaging the surface. Ballas thought long and hard about what he could use to apply the car wash idea and make a herbivore. He finally came up with the idea of ​​attaching the bottom of a popcorn can to a radio wire connected to a wheeled edger and after a few failed attempts to get this new device to work, he finally got it going. , and the weed cutter began its infant stages of development.

Later, when a worker George Ballas had worked for him, who was an experienced machinist, helped George put the idea together – the Weed Eater was developed. George Ballas founded the Weed Eater company and the rest is history. The Weed Eater soon took off after being promoted on television during the 1970s. The weed killer solved a big problem many homeowners and landscape professionals had, that of trimming weeds in dangerous and hard-to-reach areas.