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Fiskars Weed Removing Tool
Highland Jeannie
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Has anybody got one of these? Is it any good?
Local gc has a sale on just now & hubby thinks that the long handle would save his back.
Surely it can't be as easy as they show........ can it??
Cheers,
Jean.
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The tool looks and sounds like a 'Rambo' weapon. In reality, it is 'OK' for simple uncomplicated weeding out of dandelions, but virtually anything else, is useless, Docks laugh at you. Daisies scoff and anyything else is irrelevent to the tool. It is though, a veritable MASTERPIECE of marketting.
Thanks for that Peteballan - certainly agree about the marketing!
Sorry, but I don't agree with peteballan. I've had one for a year or so and find it to be excellent with all sorts of weeds including daisies in my lawn!
Hi Cliff, I wonder how complicated a tool can be ! The weeder has just not come up to the mark as far as I can figure. It leaves 50% of major root systems torn off and left in the ground, craters in the lawn where it has been used, and I cannot get any neighbours to even borrow it ! Good luck to yourself tho'. Perhaps tools with a single direction moving part are beyond my scope of experience !
Hi Pete, I do agree with holes left in the lawn but regard it as aeration! I just filled mine with compost and sprinkled some lawn seed on the surface. Fortunately I now have very few weeds left in the lawn.
Hmmm, 2 opposite views!
Thanks anyway, I'll have to see how much it's discounted.......
We did buy it (discounted ) & I finally used it yesterday.
It did a sterling job with the creeping buttercup & as Jaycee says, it's all done from the standing position & I did enjoy flicking the weed into the bucket! I just filled the holes with compost & grass seed.
Hmph ! As for aerating the grass/lawn, I think a mills bomb would have the same effect for the crater effect, BUT IT still LEAVES 50% of the root system in the ground, on the ground I have anyway ! Love the dialogue anyway !
I LOVE MINE
I got it last year and it never fails. I had the one with the horizontal handle. It does do my back in after a while and my poor garden often looks like the moon!! BUT I do live by scrubland and regularly have Snow-falls of dandelion seeds