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Hi all I was at a meeting on an allotment the other day and just as I was leaving the guy in the last plot at the gate was using this funny looking tool once I was out I shouted back to him did he make it himself or buy it "reply" bought it, it was a hoe but had handles as like a bicycle and he called it name  as in an English town or shire but cant remember the name anyone know what I am on about
Its blade must have been about same size width as handles.  Honestly hadn't been on the sauce.

Chillington?

The bicycle handles sound more like a wheel hoe.

It wasn't a Wolf Terrex autospade was it? That has handles like a bicycle...

http://www.backsavergardentools-shop.co.uk/epages/y67yj4cny2a2.sf/en_GB/?ObjectPath=/Shops/y67yj4cny2a2/Categories/Autospade

It wouldn't be a Chillington Hoe since that has a pole-type handle.

was it like this.the best tool a ever bought? the Jalohttp://s475.beta.photobucket.com/user/gardentg44/media/allotmentphotos285.jpg.html

Quote from: gardentg44 on March 18, 2013, 06:44:39
was it like this.the best tool a ever bought? the Jalohttp://s475.beta.photobucket.com/user/gardentg44/media/allotmentphotos285.jpg.html

That is the one I was trying to remember name of.

Sorry I had trouble viewing image:

So, do we know what it's called?

Here's one, but what a price! I'm not sure if it is the same one as above. http://www.blackberrylane.co.uk/wheelhoes.html

Blimey! I have one of those , might start using it now or at least keep it inside the shed.

Quote from: markfield rover on March 20, 2013, 10:37:44
Blimey! I have one of those , might start using it now or at least keep it inside the shed.

Lol, perhaps worth selling if you don't use it much, think of all the seeds you could buy!

Are they any good?

I will give it a go ,great if it works otherwise it may become Object D'art in the back garden ,it is an older version with proper cast iron parts ,I saved it when someone asked me to take it to the dump, and really in allotment terms it is only just " run in" .

If it is a wheeled hoe I know them at planet wheeled hoe. Cant remember the name just now. I got one off eBay, the old style which seems better proportioned than the newer ones. I think it might be a planet wheeled junior hoe. The blades are adjustable in and out to suit the width of thelines you are hoeing. Its very quick to use.

Planet Junior?

the jalo gardener is a brillant tool.it weeds ,furrows,ploughs,scrabbles,rakes,drills and even earths up potatoes.
and did i mention theseed hopper attachment aswell.