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I sound like a walking commercial every time I talk about this, and I promise you I don’t get a commission or anything (starting to wish I did!) but the Hoedag has quickly become my all time favorite, go-to gardening tool. This is the first tool I grab for just about everything – digging, tilling, weeding, hoeing, planting… The versatility and ease of use of this little tool is simply amazing. They are made locally (Lewiston, ID) by a family business. If I was allowed to keep only one gardening tool, this would be my choice. You can order them online from their website.
- trigardening.wordpress.com
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I am a fossil preparator and over the past seven summers I have worked with the St. Louis Science Center and Adventure 360, LLC prospecting and collecting dinosaur fossils in the Badlands of Eastern Montana. This past summer I had the opportunity to use a Hoedag during our three week field season and I was incredibly pleased with its performance. The hoedag offers all the strength of a rock hammer (the standard tool in field work) with a fraction of the weight. The straight edge along the sides of the head was very useful when scrapping away delicate layers of overburden and even after three weeks of hammering into sand and clay the head remained sharp. The handle of the hoe-dag is also longer than that of the standard rock hammer making it a more formidable digging tool. I have attached a few photos... you will notice that I used a wood-burner to make a small modification to the handle. When taking photos of fossils in the field it is always important to include a measuring tool in order to represent scale. Thank you very much for creating this wonderful tool.
Sincerely,
Jeff Conderman | Four Points Fossil Preparation, St. Peters, MO
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I was your first customer the Friday the garden show started. My husband laughed at me when I brought it home and called me gadget girl. I started using it last week and I am completely in love with it. It digs, chops roots, move rocks, loosens dirt... plus it looks cool when I carry it around! I love this thing like crazy!!!
- Debbie W. | Caldwell, ID
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I was given a hoe•dag by a dear friend, and it's about the best thing around! I've tackled tough, and I mean "tough" weeds with the big blade, and the small blade is perfect for planting the six-pack seedlings. I am currently making up my Christmas gift list for the family, and hoe•dags will certainly be at the top. Thank you!
- Martha W. | Eagle, ID
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The Hoedag rocks! Here I am 8 months pregnant and can still work out in my garden because this little tool digs holes as good as or better than a big ol' shovel. Love it!
- Yvette Mills | Sherwood, OR
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The other day I asked my husband if I had told him I love my HoeDag..........he said not today, but I am sure you will any second. No reason today should be different than the last 200!!!!
- Deborah Daniels | Boise, ID
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I’ve got a new hoe, called a hoedag, and I love it.
I first heard rumors of this “hoedag” hand hoe via Mary Ann, from Gardens of the Wild, Wild West. When I found out that this hoe really did exist, I wrote a little email to the maker of it to introduce myself and present my hoeing credentials and ask if they had one I could try out and review.
Within a few days, I had my own hoedag. As soon as I took it out of the box, I almost instinctively started to dig a little spot with it. Then I used it to chop out some weeds, grub out some grass, and make a nice furrow in some of the vegetable garden beds. I even used it to pry out some rocks.
Then, and this will surprise many of you, I hired my nephew-in-law to help with some challenging areas in the garden, and showed him all the shovels and hoes, both long-handled and short-handled, hanging on the pegboard in my garage and let him choose any of them to use.
He chose the hoedag. My brand new hoedag. At first I thought maybe I should get to use it first, but then I decided to let him give it a workout. After all, the people who make the hoedag wrote in an email reply to me,
“Please abuse it to your heart’s content and let us know what you think of it.”
My nephew-in-law gave it a workout, in a place where he actually broke a lesser made trowel clean in two, the digging was so hard. But it wasn’t too much for the hoedag. He told me the other day “give it a good review”. So I made sure to try it out some more, before I wrote up this review, by digging, weeding, tilling, and then prying out more rocks with it myself.
My assessment is that the hoedag deserves a Great Review. (What do these young people know about hoeing, anyway?)
This is the real deal, a great hand hoe, well-made by hand and guaranteed forever.
This hoe and I will be spending many hours together in the garden and my garden will be better for it.
I will be always grateful to the wonderful people who make the hoedag in Lewiston, Idaho, USA.
- maydreamsgardens.com
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It happens to every gardener who dares to go on vacation during peak garden season: the weeds take over while you are gone. The hoedag is a great tool to dispatch those weeds in a hurry. Darrel Inman makes these in his shop in Lewiston, Idaho from his father's original design. The carbon steel blade is heat-treated to RC-45.
I had a perennial bed where the weeds got away from me. This tool helped me clean out the lawn grass and weeds quickly. Similar to a mattock, it has a wide blade at one end and a narrow blade at the other. But unlike a mattock, the handle is shorter and the head of the tool is lighter. It is perfect for the times when hand pulling will take too long, but a heavy-duty tool like a mattock would be overkill. The narrower end is also suitable for making seed furrows in the vegetable garden.
Darrel's father based his original design on the pulaskis used by loggers to plant trees. He fashioned a few lighter weight versions for home use; however, the metal occasionally broke and would have to be welded again. Darrel himself has always been interested in metallurgy. As his wife Sally Inman recalls, "He can make almost anything out of metal and has made furniture for both our daughter and myself. There are usually a bunch of men around who wants things welded or lathe work done or milling." When Darrel retired in 2001, he finally got to work on projects he's always wanted to do, such as building an airplane, restoring another plane and restoring a 1953 Ford pickup.
Then he set his sights on improving his father's garden tool. About two years ago, Darrel finally started making the equipment, buying old equipment which he modified to fit what he needed, and buying new equipment to make the hoedag®. He finds it very rewarding to improve on the manufacturing of the tool and designing and making better equipment. The improved design requires nineteen steps and he makes each one by hand. Every tool is guaranteed forever.
- KathyPurdy on spogagafa.blog.co.uk
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I purchased a hoe.dag from your booth at the Northwest Flower and Garden Show in Seattle earlier this year. Today I got it dirty for the first time. A nasty patch of crabgrass and shotweed had taken over under a favorite shrub and I wanted to get it out of there before the shrub leafed out and made things more difficult. I was dreading the job, knowing how difficult it had been in the past using the three claw tool I’d used previously. I was delighted to discover that the hoe.dag made short work of this job, easily penetrating the soil and getting down to the roots of the grass with little effort, making pulling it away from the shrub so easy. I was able to finish the job in about 15 minutes, when it would have taken at least twice that long with the other method. Thank you for a great product. It was easy to use and has quite possibly revolutionized how I feel about weeding. I (and my garden) thank you!
- Hilary T. | Seattle
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We asked repeat buyers at the Boise Flower & Garden show one day what they had to say about hoedag! Here is what they wrote:
I love this product! I bought one for myself last year and my husband took it for work and won't give it back. I also bought one for my mother-in-law and step mom and they both love it!
- Allison D. | Boise, ID
I live in Portland. Clay soil. This is an awesome tool. Bought 4 this year for gifts.
- Karen S. | Portland, OR
Love this product. Would not do without it.
- Jackie H. (age 80) | Boise, ID
I live in Garden Valley and sell perennial plants for the past 9 years -- I have 42 beds and I use this everyday! I love it!
- Anita S. | Garden Valley, ID
I have bought two hoe•dags and they are amazing. I take terrible care of my tools, leave them out in weather, etc. and the hoe•dags have stayed sharp no matter how I have abused it. A must have for any yard.
- Terese S. | Boise, ID
This is the best garden tool I have ever purchased. I gave one to my neighbor as a gift and she agreed!
- Judy B. | Boise, ID
This tool was my main gardening tool last year. It does everything.
- Cheri N. | Meridian, ID
The hoe•dag is a great tool for archeology, especially in clay soils.
- Terry R. | Boise, ID
Thank you so much! Linda and the girls I work with at Kathy's Wig Boutique love this tool sooo much!
- Tina | Boise, ID
Wait a minute. Are you telling me that one lightweight, easy-to-use garden tool can do all that? It's so easy to use and gets those pesky weeds out of my way. But I had no idea it could remove those stubborn tree roots, too. I only wish I'd gotten my hoedag years earlier!
- Lori R. | Boise, ID
If you have a garden...then you NEED a Hoe.dag!
- Annemarie C. | Boise, ID
I love this tool! It can do anything from weeding my garden to removing stubborn tree roots. I love you hoedag - keep up the good work!
- Todd I. | Beaverton, OR
I love this tool! It has worked great for every job I've used it for.
- Lori K. | Boise, ID
-Thomas
products offered are outstanding
-Kate
I purchased my hoe-dag last year and it has barely been out of my hands since the first time I used it. Its strength stands up to the nastiest blackberry roots and cuts long roots and stems easily. It is light so I don’t tire as soon as with a heavier mattock, but built to last and last. As Spring approaches, I can’t wait to get outside and prep my raised beds with my hoe-dag, and I carry it plus a pruner whenever I’m outside: there is no job other than digging up a large tree or shrub to transplant that I can’t take care of on the spot carrying just two tools. Thank you for designing and making my top favorite gardening tool!
-Rane
Love my tool! I have several
-Leonard
I have purchased two tools for my wife (the planter). She loves them both the light weight with the strength is perfect for senior planters. Thanks
Judy HDec 1, 2019, 6:39 PM
Randy,williams 04-26-2020
Comment made: better than back in the good ol' days. the best quality i've found anywhere. hoedag sets the bar for "Made in America".