Using a Grub Hoe - tips, techniques and ramblings

[@SmarterByNatureTV]

Thank you! This helped us a lot in deciding on how to prepare a new lot without the use of gas machines. Very informative and insightful. Gratitude!

[@easlandscaping]

Excellent video! I am getting more and more business in Philadelphia for weeding full small backyards where machinery won’t fit, so a grubbing hoe looks way easier than shovels!

[@Cupcake_223]

I've never seen this too until we read about PA using it in the book Little House in the Big Woods. I'm glad I looked it up and ran across your video. Thanks for the tips and demo. I'm going to have to invest in one now!

[@Off-Road-4x4]

I got my Chillington hoe today. Made by Richard Carter. Your video was useful as I have not used one before. I found myself working backwards across the ground. My ground is full of stones and thick with nettles and all sorts of roots. Excellent tool. Thanks for your video.

[@MusiqTruth]

What PRETTY and fertile land

[@small-timegarden]

thank you for the video. i watched a few weeks ago but im back to say thanks. i use the bigger garden tools to prepare the space but when it comes to the slower hand tools whether long handled ot short, it been new for me and this video helps. i wanted to say that in using the hoeas a tiller, iits used to flip the cmups over, if you leave the clump upsided down, yhe clump pf grass likey will die. in a few days y ou have less living weeds as the grassy cllump cooouldnt get light or water to live. it may look a bit rough but...no weeds. can break up further at thaat point. thanks again

[@mrdavidurquhart]

Great clip with lots of helpful thoughts

[@plume1639]

REALLY helpful, detailed information. Thank you!

[@njwood51]

Very excellent! Thank you for this great video.

[@JackD87]

Thanks so much for the video. For the grass you were working on at the beginning, is there any clear up you need to do? Or can you just rake it and plant in that? I’ve done the same but painstakingly went through and picked out all the grass after because mother told me it would grow again!!

[@teddyboy252]

Good job

[@ImASurvivorNThriver]

Thank you for sharing these great tips!

[@stan.rarick8556]

I have been using mine to pull up wild rose stumps by chopping in behind the stump and prying. I actually broke an (old) handle on mine because I did not chop through all the roots before wedging it out of the ground.

[@alisonnorcross951]

You make it look easy.

[@harrymccormack654]

this was a very informative video thank you

[@Thetoolmerchants]

Glad it helped!

[@Acesahn]

I've been debated if I need to buy a spade or a hoe for some mild landscaping I'm doing (putting down some stone pavers) and was looking for confirmation I would be using the hoe correctly lol. Looks like the hoe is in fact the tool for the job.

[@markschwinnen1901]

What brand grub how was that being used and where can I order one?

[@Sazan5889]

The best tool

[@spennytakadung]

It seems like a very sharp tool... cuts like butta!

[@jackhenson232]

He's effortlessly skinning that sod. I've done it before with a address side of a pickax lol takes long time

[@winrawrisyou]

Helps a lot to use a longer handle than the standard 36"/90 cm handle.

[@TikkanaAkurati]

What brand are you using in this video?

[@michaelhilber8284]

That's much better than a regular hoe. I've got one. The head is long, and it's got a curve to it, and that curve matches the arc of your swing so it cuts into the ground with less effort.

[@johnmckeag1048]

Never be able to use this tool in the stony glacial till soils

[@gregorymosher5008]

Where you pull all the weeds, grass etc back, do you simply leave them on top where they lay? I always threw away the sod when I cleared a new garden spot. Just curious as I am new to gardening

[@Thetoolmerchants]

I rake the sod away as well. Some weeds will just wilt and die if left on the surface, but grass is tenacious, especially when it's rainy.

[@ImASurvivorNThriver]

What is the name of that other tool you used to smooth out the surface?

[@johnwilson6336]

For the very last 10 seconds of video you have a rake-like tool that you’re using; I think that’s the tool he’s asking about.

[@alisonnorcross951]

My how seems smaller but I shall give it a whirl tomorrow

[@plume1639]

How damp should the ground be when I try this please? Can only someone below the age of 50 do this?

[@Thetoolmerchants]

Not too wet and not too dry. :) If you can make a ball of soil and bounce it in your hands without it breaking, then it's probably too wet.

[@Thetoolmerchants]

I think someone over 50 could do it, just depends on the person.

[@g35tho11]

So after this what is the next step ? My whole backyard is basically just weeds ...

[@adkmtns5726]

Grab a rake and go to it!

[@MusiqTruth]

My backyard is all weeds, too. Here's my plan after grubbing out all the dead roots, weeds, baby stumps, and stone: rake out the debris, walk over it to tamp down/firm up a bit so it won't become a landslide when it rains lol, once you've walked over it and got it a bit firm well (do any leveling needed at this point), throw down seed, rake it in, begin watering 2x daily and watch your babies grow.

[@MinnesotaSvensk]

A great tool that has been lost to time. This is what our Scandinavian ancestors used to break the land before they had means to buy oxen/horses & machinery.

[@robertclark4929]

I have an old grub hoe much bigger and heavier.

[@alisonnorcross951]

I LL treat it like exercise

[@jsprunger6246]

My soil needs to be man handled since it's in the woods and tons of cats briar and roots infest very deep into the ground. Only really thick mattock does the job lol