Someone told me about an elderly lady down the road from me who's been unable to do any yard work and had a massive amount of garbage piled up. I went down and loaded my truck full of garbage and took one look at the 8ft tall weeds and though, hmm, I'm going to have to come back with a machete....Moments later a thought crossed my mind. I have my SPAX in the truck.....So out came the SPAX and it cleared the weeds, some with stocks bigger than my wrist. I made a 12ft tall by 20 ft wide like of "weed trees" in about an hour, hacking away. The SPAX handled it like a champ!