Love this idea honestly the ultimate revenge regift (hope nobody catches on).

Read a thing the other day about how people who name their pets silly things live longer. Not sure if it's true, but it definitely makes life more fun. Chonky and Nibbles is a perfect combo, one sounds like a tank and the other sounds like a little troublemaker. Bet they keep you on your toes. Honestly, I'm kinda jealous I didn't come up with those names first.

Hang on, taylor668 is kind of missing the point here. If there was a hidden nail or a knot, that would usually just dull the bit or stall the motor, not cause the whole cutter head to seize and launch the bit out the front. That sounds more like a mechanical failure in the gear train or the collet assembly itself, not a user error thing. Festool tools are designed to handle knots and the occasional hidden fastener, they have overload clutches for that. I've hit plenty of surprises in my work and the worst I ever got was a smoked motor on a sander once, never a catastrophic explosion like that. So while it's smart to always check your lumber, I think Terry's case is more about a defective unit rather than something he did wrong.

Yeah, six inches sounds about right from what I've seen. I'd also say the grass that's already established is just that stubborn. It reminds me of that whole idea of shortcuts in life though, like when people skip steps to save time and then have to go back and fix stuff later. You end up doing the work twice anyway. That's why I just go ahead and rent a tiller for the first go, then do the no-dig maintenance after that. Biting the bullet upfront saves headaches down the road with most things.

And then my cat decided the cord was a toy and chewed through it while I was at work, so that was the end of that experiment.