Full Size Digging Hoe with Wooden Handle - 120cm GARDEN.

An excellent tool to turn over large areas. Good length handle. Easy to fit. Blade not the best quality but adequate and great value considering the low price. Much easier than using a spade due to my dodgy knee!! Fine for me but my partner found it rather heavy. Recommended.

Excellent. There is a reason you see people using this type of spade in all the third world countries. It works so well. Buy it!!!!

Don't know why it's so hard to find a proper digging hoe in the UK, there were none in any of the garden centres or hardware stores I visited, and so decided to give this one a go. The handle is nice and long, and the head is well made with a nice edge for slicing through buried roots. The hoe is well-balanced, sturdy but not too heavy. It has enough weight for the purpose, I would not like to have a tool of this dimension that is too light and makes me put more back in than necessary. The tool's weight in itself helps to dig, especially with larger areas of dryer/heavier soil. The tool arrived assembled, but I took the handle out to oil it in properly before use - this way it lasts longer and is more convenient to work with. Work in a generous amount of linseed oil in the wood and the work it gently, but thoroughly over with medium-to-fine sand paper. Do this 3-4 times and leave the wood overnight before re-assembling and use. The wood fibres swell with the oil and the sanding seals the surface and leaves it silky smooth after the oil has penetrated properly. Well, if you're less OCD about your tools, you can just use it as it is. The diameter of the handle's bottom end is larger, so no risk of the blade falling out. This was my concern, but now that I've used it I'm happy with the design and the quality. Only reason I'm not giving it 5 stars is because the head should be heavier, which would give each swing more force.

Satisfaction

I always wanted something like this; a cross between a hoe and a shovel as I've seen people using similar on documentaries about Africa or Latin America and I have a nerdy fascination with unusual tools from overseas. Anyway, since this arrived, it's seen plenty of use and abuse and it's stood up to it well. No danger [so far] of the shaft splitting or breaking, which some other reviews have mentioned. I find it really useful for levelling rough ground as the angle of the blade is good for slicing off bumps and high spots and dragging the soil towards you. Not so good [for the same reason] for actually shovelling the material thus removed. So I tend to use this to "trawl" all the soil, or whatever, into a pile and then use a traditional shovel to take it away.

Really good tool for digging up stubborn crouch grass and banking up potato plants. Good value for money item.

Very strong

There are many usages of this tool. I would like to emphasize and demonstrate one particular advantage of this digging hoe. It can combine the function of digging, weeding and lifting in one movement. The ground is slightly wet at the moment. However, coming to summer this will be a fantastic tool to keep the weed down, aid drainage and maintain the raised bed for your vegetable plots. It does feel a bit heavy for someone of my size, but it might be much easier for others to handle. I highly recommend it!