Weed Razer
Match the tool to the growth
Tell us what you see off the dock. The weed decides the blade, the rake, and the work ahead.
What do you see off the dock?
This is cutter water. The stalks root in the bottom and shear cleanly near the sediment, and the lane you cut stays open for weeks. Plan on raking the cuttings out the same afternoon.
A cutter handles standing stalks, though the pull is heavier than through soft weed and thick stands take repeat passes. Most owners cut a lane through rather than clearing the whole stand.
The cutter shears the stems well below the surface and the pads float off. Pads are heavy and waterlog fast, so the basket wants to come through behind the blade the same afternoon, before they settle back down.
Straight talk: there is nothing here for a blade to cut. A rake riding on its floats drags mats and rafts ashore, and that is honest work. Green cloudy water is a nutrient question no tool of ours answers.
Straight talk: nothing on these shelves pulls root crowns out of the mud, so cutting alone will read as mowing. What we can do is stop feeding the layer. The basket with its floats off lifts sunken deposits, the rake digs what sank, and every load that leaves the water is one the bottom does not get back.
That is the other line entirely. A collapsible bladder rides flat in the truck bed, fills at the spigot, and drains by gravity where the water is needed. Pick the size by who lifts it.
