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Also known as an oscillating, reciprocating, or stirrup hoe.

The bronze blade is sharpened on both edges and oscillates about its brass pivot, cutting weeds in both directions.It is a dutch hoe and draw hoe combined. A fast and efficient tool, useful for hoeing along rows and between plants and for cutting out roots. Supplied with a limewood handle. The blades are bolted on and can be replaced when worn down.

The head rests on the soil surface while working. The pivot allows the head to cut into the soil with both forwards and backwards movements, cutting the weeds below the soil surface. The flat sides protect the rows of plants to either side, and the square shape allows the gardener to dig out deeper-rooted weeds with the corners.

Why Copper Garden Tools?

• Copper gardening tools enrich the soils with coppertrace elements and thereby provide plants with essential nutrients

• They are hardwearing and will last for years

• Stay free of rust – but age with a graceful bronze patina, perfect for the coastal gardener

• They have sharp edges

• They have an incomparably longer lifespan than devices from iron

• Viktor Schauberger came to the assessment that cultivating the soil with copper implements would be more beneficial to the Earth and lead to healthier plants. In his writings, he listed several reasons for this.

• Minute amounts of copper create the conditions for beneficial micro-organisms

• Penetrate the soil easily -low coefficient of friction- less tendency for clay to cling to the tool

• Copper is not magnetic - so does not disrupt the electrical fields in the soil

• Can be kept sharp with a whetstone, file or by peening (hammering the edge against a steel anvil)