Seems like a very useful tool, fit for working on very hard ground, (tightly compacted soil). Or an area which has too many small rocks in the soil, like on the side of a hill. But no, I haven't used it.
No. Not on the long handle. We do have 2 pair of small light mattock style heads with an axe and a pick end respectively, with hammer length and roughly 3 foot handle lengths.
Yes we have something like that but only use it infrequently. I am not sure what it was meant to be used for specifically. Do you use them, Jerry? If so, how are you using them?
We've never had one, and I can't imagine a use for one that isn't already covered by one of our other gardening tools.
Thank you everybody for the replies. I was thinking about buying one as back problems have me sitting on the ground more when I work on a garden bed. Jerry
I can understand you completely now. As I too have experienced a slip disk in life. Of course, my injury eventually healed. But the experience taught me how terrible (as well as demoralizing) back problems can be... As for this hoe dag, well, every tool has it's own use. Because if it wasn't of any purpose, it wouldn't have been invented, and certainly not marketed - Therefore I say, you pick whatever you feel comfortable with. Because the best tool is the one you end up using the most. So if this feels right to you, then go for it! Below are 2 pages, which you might find helpful. https://www.eastersealstech.com/2014/07/24/8-great-gardening-tools/ https://www.pinterest.com/pin/67272588159015559/ https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.pinterest.com/amp/pin/67272588159015559/
We had bought one when living in Spain, as the ground needed it for sure and then the Bexhill on Sea Home, claypot soil it was used again..no idea where it ended up, but lucky with the soil here, a normal fork is all that is needed...
We decided when we had some repeating back issues that are now wear and tear of age, so not about to go completely, but we purchased a couple of back support belts..simple ones really not unlike this one.... https://www.amazon.fr/Gather-togeth...rds=Back+Support+Belt&qid=1618343656&sr=8-111
I actually had back surgery in 1988 at a Speciality Hospital called Atkinson Morley in Wimbledon which was mainly brain injuries and back injuries. The Hospital was ancient back then and My late Dad was horrified, he told me later, when he took me for the book in procedure...but the care was absolutely perfection....I had a micro discectomy and a foraminotomy which is scraping of the spinal area to enlarge the gaps to keep the nerves at bay..took little time after to re-coup. The care was almost one on one and the surgeons where around every day on the ward.amazing dedication...unheard of such high standards today... but then not so long after my visit there, the Hospital was closed and moved into a General Hospital in Tooting London. The site was just left to decay for many many years and now it has been built on for housing....
Mart, you forgot to mention your two experienced and helpful hands as garden tools! I love my four pronged cultivator, and Dutch hoe.
