O/T Garden Tool Rant

Fergienewbee · Jun 18, 2011

What is it with manufacturers making hoes now? I looked at a couple of hoes at a seed store yesterday and they weren't sharp enough to cut hot butter, let alone weeds. They might have worked for mixing concrete, but that's about it. You'd think an ag store would have the best tools available. My favorite hoe is an old one I bought at an auction. The handle is screwed and duct taped together, but it still works great.

Larry

spanky · Jun 18, 2011

The only hoe I like new isn't a garden tool.

Gary from Muleshoe · Jun 18, 2011

I have yet to find that will fit my hands. They always seem to fit the other guys hands better.

LAA · Jun 18, 2011

www.easydigging.com -- they carry the old time style chopping hoe's -- made in the USA.

Matt from CT · Jun 18, 2011

lol

I was thinking the very thing at Agway this morning. Just picked up a tear-drop shaped on my way by...if it was a mason's trowel it was thick enough to last the mason from trade school to social security.

Paul from MI · Jun 18, 2011

Most of the junk in stores is welded up junk from the land of almost right. Best ones are forged and been used enough to be thin and sharp. I have used my favorite one for over 40 years and it's about 2/3 worn out, just like me!

greenbeanman in Kansas · Jun 18, 2011

I have a couple of hoes that I like. One belongs to a tool and handle system. It has a thin but strong stainless steel blade.

The other is a rogue hoe for heavy duty chopping all day long if you wish to.

As to hoe coming already sharpened---we have to remember the make up of the world's population today. After all if they sue for coffee being too hot and burning themselves with it do you think a from the store sharp hoe should even be sold?

The aforementioned one that was part of the handle/tool system actually came with a plastic edge guard over it. It was a Burpee product. Below is a link to a similar set from Wolf Garten.

http://www.wolf-garten.org/index.php?id=636

old · Jun 18, 2011

I have an old and I do mean old Row Hoe if you know what that is. It was my dads and I can remember it even when we lived in Kansas and I was 5 then. It does not have the wooden handle any more it broke many years ago so I welded a pipe handle on it and use it every spring in my garden

El Toro · Jun 18, 2011

I have an old hoe that was made for my late mother-in-law back in 1922 by a blacksmith. This was made from spring tooth off a harrow. I also have a second hoe they had that just has two small culivator shovels spaced about 8 inches apart. Nice for cultivating around small plants. I need to take several pictures of them. Hal

El Toro · Jun 18, 2011

Here are the hoes that originally belong to my wife's mother. The tool spacing on the left is 3 inches and I replaced the handle sometime ago as the old handle had splinters. The hoe on the right is the one made from a spring tooth harrow tooth. That may be the original handle. Hal

pete 23 · Jun 18, 2011

I buy the square looking ones that like was said, looks ok for working with concrete. Then I cut off about 2 inches of the bottom, taper the top side down toward the outside so it is about l l/2 inch deep on outer edge, and then sharpen it up. Works for me. Much lighter and slides through the soil easier.

Eldon (WA) · Jun 18, 2011

LOL! Around here we have Ida hoe-ers....

bob15 · Jun 18, 2011

Bully Tools. US Made and very rugged

http://www.bullytools.com/

Anonymous-0 · Jun 18, 2011

Here's a RO-HO, on fleabay, best garden tool there is, mine is always shiny, from use. If you buy them in the winter, they go cheaper.
RO HO

old · Jun 18, 2011

Well since it would not let me go look are you sure it is the same as I am talking about. To me a row Hoe is a hoe that is in a V shape for making rows to plant your seed in

BushogPapa · Jun 18, 2011

You have not noticed that you can buy NOTHING sharp enough to hurt yourself with anymore..!!!!

I have to Sharpen Everything, before it is fit to use...(except maybe for razor blades)...so far.!!

Ron..

JBMac · Jun 18, 2011

You should see the edge my hispanic workers put on a machete with a basterd file!

TomH in PA · Jun 18, 2011

Another thing about new hoes - the angle of the blade is wrong. They look like they're made for dragging dirt around, not for weeding. I gave up looking for a good one and bent one into shape, then sharpened it with the grinder.

DownSouth · Jun 18, 2011

Now I really like that gadget. Can't say I have ever seen one before. Found this in a search, tells a pretty honest story on the best way to use it. Do you use yours the same way, or are you able to push the tines through?

Row Hoe Information

big fred · Jun 18, 2011

After busting several shovels, I finally bit the bullet and bought a Fiskars shovel. Just one look tells you it's the best shovel ever made. They also make a hoe, the Fiskars 9663 hoe. Don't know anything about it, but if it's half as good as the shovel, it's twice as good as any other hoe.

Anonymous-0 · Jun 19, 2011

That article is bs, for me, but in truth, our garden soil has a lot of sand in it, and that might make it easier to push. I use mine almost every day, with the cultivator teeth. Only problem is the occasional morning glory that grows too fast. Then you either pull it, or turn the hoe over, and use the scraper.

KFD68 · Jun 19, 2011

(quoted from post at 20:13:06 06/18/11) Here are the hoes that originally belong to my wife's mother. The tool spacing on the left is 3 inches and I replaced the handle sometime ago as the old handle had splinters. The hoe on the right is the one made from a spring tooth harrow tooth. That may be the original handle. Hal

Found this old 3 prong hoe last week - been looking for one for years

36 Coupe · Jun 20, 2011

Get a pointed hoe and sharpen it yourself.Its called a Warren hoe.Most hoes I see are over size.

Rootsy · Jun 20, 2011

I have half a dozen hoes dating to the 40's and 50's when my Grandparents grew sugar beets and tomatoes. These are what they used to call sugar beet hoes. Used a lot of migrant labor back then to weed between plants.

Nothing more than a hoe that is cut down so that the top is shaped like a peak or roof of a home. Center peak is 2 inches from the blade and the wall height is about an inch. Has a bit of a turn in so it is an acute angle between blade and handle.

Work well for cutting in and around plants. The main edge gets sharpened as well as the end edges allowing for 3 working surfaces.

These are what I use still and I have found nothing better for getting in, around and beneath seedlings and plants, especially root vegetables.

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