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Ace, you've mentioned your Asian Hoe a couple of times, I think I know what you mean, but do you have a picture? I made the mistake of Googling the phrase...Thanks, Adrian
Yep. That's the tool. Cleared 35 square metres today in two one and a half hour stints. It scrapes the grass tussocks and weeds off the top. Dig a trench with a spade, and then with the hoe hooking and pulling it back into the trench about 8 or 9 inches at a time it is dug to a spit deep. I would not think it is a tool for the fairer sex as you need the muscles where you have dangly bits. The biggest mistake most people make is slugging away instead of getting the balance of it an letting the tool do the work.The soil is a stony loam with clay about 18 inches down. All the sand over here is on the beach other parts of the island are a thin topsoil then chalk, fossils and big flints as far as you can dig down. Farmyard manure is plentiful, so instead of digging down you top up and avoid disturbing the clay or pick axing the chalk.
. I would not think it is a tool for the fairer sex as you need the muscles where you have dangly bits.