Hoe Design

Fergienewbee · Jun 24, 2013

I'm looking at a hoe that has a triangular head that is beveled on the front and back, similar to a cultivator sweep. Looks like it is designed to lay flat to the ground and cut the weeds off below the surface. I assume it cuts both on the forward and backward stroke. Looks like it would work well for between plants, like in a row of corn. Are they any better than a traditional shaped hoe?

Larry

Anonymous-0 · Jun 24, 2013

Just make sure it has a long handle or you will be bending over to use it. Short handle hoes don't get used around here. Hard to find handles long enough to stand up to do hoeing. Just my thoughts from hours of using one!

SweetFeet · Jun 24, 2013

Small triangle hoe is my favorite...great for working close to rows or in between larger plants. The head looks about the size of a sickle section. That may even be what mine is made from - was my grandparents' hoe.

Here's a pic of one like mine.

glennster · Jun 24, 2013

i have a scuffle hoe that works real good in the garden, it will cut weeds off right under the surface, and as long as the ground isnt hard as concrete, does a nice job. here is a link to the one you have, mine looks like a stirrup
poke here

northeastpuller1 · Jun 24, 2013

The hoe in the picture is a warren hoe If the link I have provided does not work .Go to true value dot com type in item number 106819.I love mine.

Northeast puller /True Value store owner

glennster · Jun 24, 2013

here is a pic of the style i have
poke here

SweetFeet · Jun 24, 2013

This one looks pretty slick! I have never seen one like it.

Anonymous-0 · Jun 24, 2013

I like the triangle design best myself. Havn't looked hard for one but local stores only have the standard. I have been going to grind one of mine into the triangle but haven't gotten a round to it. In all cases, a nice sharp edge is critical (watch your toes lol).

Charlie M · Jun 24, 2013

I worked for a guy once that had a mowing machine knife attached to a wooden handle and used it as a hoe. Worked real well for getting up close to plants.

Ferd · Jun 24, 2013

I had one and when the weeds get a bit bigger it worked pulling, but not pushing. Wound up breaking off one of the "wings". Just bought a hoe that's about 2" high and a quarter inch thick. I ground the front edge down to make it sharp and it works great. Dirt goes over the short blade and being sharp it cuts the weeds easily. As thick as it is, it shouldn't break.

Mike (WA) · Jun 24, 2013

We had one when I was a kid- called a Crescent Weeder. There's one shown as the first item in the attached link. Very handy- I finally found one about like it at a hardware store a few years ago, use it all the time.
Crescent Weeder

Dan in Ohio · Jun 24, 2013

I like Glennster's hoe, scuffle hoe is a type of hoe that can have several forms. I like the stirrup design.

Rollie NE PA · Jun 24, 2013

My dad always said a hoe was the worst tool a man ever invented, yet he always had one in his hand, all summer long.
My garden is so stoney that the sparks fly off the hoe when I use it.

willie in mn · Jun 24, 2013

My Dad had one way back in the 50's. Diamond shape, laid flat, with the long axis cross wise. Cut on pull or push, slid just below the surface. Couldn't find one like it, so made one a couple years ago, spent less than 5 bucks.
Took 2 sickle sections & welded into a diamond shape. Then welded on a piece of 1/8 x 1 in strap iron covering the first weld & bent the end 6 in or so up at about 45° angle, enough to bolt on a handle. Took about 1/2 hour to make it, with time out for a cold drink.
With the points the wide way, it lays flat, slides just below the surface, clips the weeds off without having to move a lot of dirt.
One of these days I'll figure out how to post a pic.
Willie

redtom · Jun 24, 2013

There was one for sale on TV years ago with all the other Ronco krap called the Hula hoe. It was a piece of stap iron rolled into a loop and then flattened to fit against the ground, and sharpened on both edges. You pushed and pulled. It ranked up there with the garden weasel. There is a reason the traditional hoe is still the mainstay of weeding.

CenTex Farmall · Jun 24, 2013

Around here the "I" hoe was popular for the cotton fields and you still find a lot of well worn ones.
With the heavy head and long handle you can set up a rythmic chopping that's not so tiring.

Works on large stem weeds and also good on snakes, possums, wasps nests and shoo-ing cows.

Eldon (WA) · Jun 25, 2013

(quoted from post at 13:21:55 06/24/13) I'm looking at a hoe that has a triangular head that is beveled on the front and back, similar to a cultivator sweep. Looks like it is designed to lay flat to the ground and cut the weeds off below the surface. I assume it cuts both on the forward and backward stroke. Looks like it would work well for between plants, like in a row of corn. Are they any better than a traditional shaped hoe?

Larry

We call them winged hoes....they are basically all we use in our produce business. They make large ones and small ones...I have bought two large ones, but they both broke off a wing on one side. I have found that they work great with one wing, you just have to experiement with different positions by turning the handle. I plan on taking the handle from the smaller ones when they wear out and bolting on a mower sickle knife section for cheap replacements. I can take my 4" angle grinder and shape it like the winged hoe. I tried one with a home made handle using a pipe, but it is too heavy. The trick to the small ones is twisting the hoe to get the right angle....much easier to use than the hula hoe.

El Toro · Jun 25, 2013

Here are my garden hoes. They belonged to my wife's parents. One was made from a tooth off a spring tooth harrow by a blacksmith for my mother-in-law. I use it for making furrows for my bush beans. Hal

36 Coupe · Jun 25, 2013

That hoe was forged.You can buy a hoe with a sickle section on it.

36 Coupe · Jun 26, 2013

An Aroostook county potato farmer made a trip down to Bangor to hire some help.He went to the Bangor house to check in.He said to the desk clerk,I would like to hire 50 hoers.Desk clerk said ,if you can handle that many I can get them.

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