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r/lawncare•
cleoola

What is this tool?

Hi r/lawncare! I'm hoping you can help me identify a tool that my mom has asked for as a gift for her birthday. This is the tool.

She borrowed it from my aunt to work on her lawn this summer, and loved it. She says that it's similar to a manual roto-tiller type tool. It has a long handle so she could use it while standing up. I asked and my aunt also doesn't know what it's called! I'm hoping to pick one up for her birthday next weekend. If anyone is able to identify it, that would be amazing! (I can always walk into Home Depot with the photo, but I'd love to have the name so I don't send any poor employee on a wild goose chase for something I can't identify!)

Thank you! :)

Posted Sep 24, 2021, 2:08 PM UTC

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Pearl_krabs•

the garden weasel was its trademark name back in the day.

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cleoolaOP•

Wow! I just googled Garden Weasel and that's it exactly. Thank you so much for your help!

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Pearl_krabs•

I remember the commercials for them. It was an as-seen-on-tv kind of thing.

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RonPerlmansJaw•

I use mine to break up the soil before I overseed bare spots.

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cleoolaOP•

Awesome! Thanks!

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protos_levendis•

Doesn't it compact the soil more, or does it not matter for smaller areas? I'm pretty inexperienced so not saying it'strue...just thought I read that somewhere.

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RonPerlmansJaw•

It loosens the soil.

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The_Trevbot•

I've got one as well. Super handy for breaking up bare spots for seeding.

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Acceptable-Chain-357•

Manual tiller?

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cleoolaOP•

I guess I thought it'd be more complicated than that, lol! Thank you!

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[deleted]•

If I’m remembering correctly (I often don’t) there is the kind that you showed in the photo, and then there’s another kind with 4 prongs in helix shape that has a long handle that you turn. I think BOTH are called a “weasel” of some sort.

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cleoolaOP•

Awesome, that's helpful. I checked Home Depot and they have something that looks like this, so I'll go with that! Thank you!

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DaleandI•

Garden weasel

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