The domestic invention - a shovel "Mole"

The shovel as an instrument did not appear yesterday and will not soon disappear. Any person, speaking or remembering a dacha site, immediately imagines not the easiest job with a shovel and the accompanying back pain. Of course, there is a mass of agricultural machinery designed to facilitate work on the ground, but small plots and vegetable gardens as a shovel kingdom, so remain to this day. Has the human genius for so many centuries never invented anything that could facilitate the work of a truck farmer? It turns out he came up with. This is a garden shovel "Mole". She, of course, does not dig herself, but is able to considerably facilitate and speed up the processing of the earth. So, what is it and what are its advantages?

Description of construction

Shovel "Mole" is a simple design consisting of forks on a long handle and attached to them with the help of harrow hinges. The principle of operation is also very simple. The forks are stuck into the soil, and then, using the handle as a lever, is turned outward. The forks pass through the teeth of the harrow, the soil they raise is ground, and the weeds are thrown out.

The minimum expenditure of physical effort

After work with the shovel, the loin always hurts. This is because you need to constantly raise and turn the shovel, filled with earth. All these manipulations are mainly done at the expense of the back muscles. And you need to take into account that the shank is a long lever, and the back has to raise more every time the earth weighs on the shovel. In turn, when working with "Mole" nothing to raise it is not necessary. It works solely due to the weight of the human body. We stick (helping with a foot) a pitchfork into the soil, and then pressurize it with a weight on the stalk - and he turns the pitchfork with the ground outwards. As you can see, practically no physical effort is required. The person gets tired less, and accordingly, it works faster and with pleasure.

Efficiency

Shovel "Mole" is more effective than an ordinary garden shovel two or three times. First of all, this is achieved due to the large working surface of the instrument. For each cycle of actions, an order of magnitude more ground is processed than it can be made with a bayonet shovel. In addition, the dense soil is much less resistant to the thin fork fingers than the wide blade of the shovel. Add here the above described ease and speed of work - and doubts that the shovel "Mole" allows you to process three hours of ground for two hours, completely disappear.

Optimum depth

As is known to experienced gardeners and truck farmers, turning a layer of soil more than ten centimeters deep is not advisable, since clay is often found below this layer, which, being on the surface, facilitates the rapid evaporation of moisture from the soil. Therefore, it is right to stick the shovel at an angle, and not perpendicular to the ground, which complicates the already hard work. Shovel "Mole" handles the land strictly at a given depth, without any control from the gardener.

Afterword

The garden shovel "Mole" reviews gets extremely enthusiastic. This domestic "know-how" is gaining increasing popularity among amateur gardeners who appreciated the efficiency and ease of working with it.