The Golden Rules of ATV Safety as outlined by the ATV Safety Institute's Mike Mount (see sidebar on page 75) is a good place to start for personal safety issues.
Xanthium (cocklebur) is a genus of flowering plants in the sunflower tribe within the daisy family, native to the Americas and eastern Asia.
A man using a gasoline powered string trimmer. A string trimmer, also called a  whipper-snipper ,  weed-whacker , a  weed eater  or (in the UK) a  strimmer , is a tool which uses a flexible monofilament line instead of a blade for cutting grass and other plants near objects, or on steep or irregular terrain. man using a gasoline powered string trimmer. A string trimmer, also called a  whipper-snipper ,  weed-whacker , a  weed eater  or (in the UK) a  strimmer , is a tool which uses a flexible monofilament line instead of a blade for cutting grass and other plants near objects, or on steep or irregular terrain.