StillSmart

Re: Digging

2018-01-28T07:13:44+00:00

Squint wrote:
That looks good Mash

think I will get the wife one lol

Joking aside. That's how I first saw them.
When I was a kid the wife next to us dug 1/4 acre with one every year. Tiny dot of a woman.

Your wife would be so pleased.

Statistics: Posted by Mash — Sun Jan 28, 2018 7:13 am

Re: Digging

2018-01-28T12:00:04+00:00

Easydrinker wrote:
A spade with handle bars, brilliant! Not.
But if it works for you then who am I to nay say?

I will concede that the olde styley spade may be due a facelift...

Robert.

You are looking at the wrong end the magic is further down.

Seriously they make the job soooo easy.

Statistics: Posted by Mash — Sun Jan 28, 2018 7:10 am

Re: Digging

2018-01-28T05:39:04+00:00

I use one of these Ryobi Expand-it mini rotivators https://www.ryobitools.com/outdoor/products/details/cultivator-attachment

Fits on a small split shaft petrol strimmer. Low weight, easy to use and easily digs down a few inches. When I was preparing the garden from long term pasture I mowed it first, stripped off 2 inches with a hired turf cutter, and then dug it with this. The turf I just stacked grass down in a pile, left it for two years and then put it back into the garden as rotted down top soil.

Statistics: Posted by Myles — Sun Jan 28, 2018 5:39 am

Re: Digging

2018-01-28T00:20:04+00:00

A spade with handle bars, brilliant! Not.
But if it works for you then who am I to nay say?

I will concede that the olde styley spade may be due a facelift...

Robert.

Statistics: Posted by Easydrinker — Sun Jan 28, 2018 12:20 am

Re: Digging

2018-01-27T20:33:35+00:00

That looks good Mash

think I will get the wife one lol

Statistics: Posted by Squint — Sat Jan 27, 2018 8:33 pm

Digging

2018-01-27T12:59:49+00:00

No really. Sharing this 'cos I know a few of us are growers.

I cannot dig. Kills my back. Rotavator not much better.

I found this secondhand locally. Stunning. Just dug over 10x10 turf in about 30 mins didn't even break a sweat. Probably best tool ever.

https://youtu.be/zBChqCjZJxE

Statistics: Posted by Mash — Sat Jan 27, 2018 12:59 pm