moghouse wrote:
On Jun 8, 8:56 am, David in Normandy
wrote:
So I suggest avoiding one of those things like the plague! They look
nice but are totally impractical.

I have had mine for two years, used it a lot and it has always worked
perfectly. It sounds to me like you used yours where you should have
been using one of the heavy duty, expensive jobs. Judith enquired
about something to use in place of hoeing. It is important to choose
the right tool for the right job, I'm sure you would agree - you
cannot complain that a Mini can't do the same job as a 4WD.

I only got mine for light hoeing between rows. I've got a big petrol
cultivator for all the heavy work. The lightweight electric hoeing one I
bought was frankly not fit for use on any garden. The problem was the
design as I mentioned. There are very few gardens where you won't dig up
the occasional little one inch rock or bit of baked soil - and they
simply destroy the machine.

For yours to be so successful it must have some internal clutch
mechanism. Either that or you garden on pure sand.

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David in Normandy.
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