HACHIEMON Japanese Weeding Sickle Very Sharp Edge Nejiri Gama

Brilliant tool, my favourite and the one I reach for ALL Season long. Breaks up soil, easily disturbs weeds - even big deep ones. Perfect tool of tidying edges, cuts roots for transplanting and in a pitch helps planting annuals. Ive gifted this tool to friends. Love it.

I love the precision and the sharpness of the blade. It made weeding extremely easy compared to the $50 Fiskars 4 claw standup weeder, which is great for 1 large weed but useless if there is a cluster of weeds. The Hachiemon weeding tool is great for a single weed and clusters. I cleared my front yard this summer with the help of this tool before reseeding. Highly recommend this.

I’ve now been using this tool for most of the summer. It enables me to cultivate around my plants regardless of the soil condition. I’ve been able to get down and pull out an awful lot of bindweed. It allowed me to break up so not so great soil so that I could amend it and do planting if you have one tool that you’ll use this is it. Beautiful quality, nice sharp blade. I cannot recommend this enough.

This tool easily slices through the dirt, getting under the roots of small weeds so you can just pick up the loose weeds for a super clean garden. The pointy end works well for grass clumps or weeds with deeper roots. Weeds are sneaky and often try to grow right alongside the plants but you can get close to the plant without damaging it with this precision tool.

Ordered one. Inspected and used. Wow, cuts through weeds at soil level like butter. Ordered another. Will put longer handle on second one. I have large hands so added a rubber bicycle hand grip ordered on Amazon. Around $10 for four handle pack. These were just under 1” bore. See photo for the installed handle grip. Much better for me. Rubber handle is easy to put on. Start end of grip on handle. Place cutting head with its sheath on on the floor. Pull rubber at entry point while smacking the end of rubber handle with the flat of your palm. The inrush of air into the small hole in end of handle “fluidizes” the air space around the wooden handle and you will note it creeping downward. It’s effective. Be patient and you will achieve great results. The first photo shows the two tools back to back. Note the superb attachment to handle. Front and back. I bought these for this reason. This attachment is far, far superior to other similar tools where a round handle is welded at one point. That is guaranteed to fail and break at the weld. A superb garden tool. Love it. Clean carefully after use. Lightly oil and sharpen if necessary. Sheath it and definitely keep out of reach of children. The cutting edge is razor sharp. Use it only wearing proper footgear. No sandals, exposed toes etc. Boots or leather shoes preferred. This is an effective ground cover at soil cutting and removal tool. Gets a 10 from me!