Pointed Hoe | Ridging Hoe
Creates Planting Ridges.
4.8 / 5.0
147 Ratings
$65.90
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Combine two or more of any long tools (hoes, spade, shovels, etc) to get Free Shipping.
* That's a $29.00 savings!
Do you want to work up sod or hard soil? Need to create tall ridges for potatoes? This tool will do both!
This heavy-duty 8" wide triangular-shaped hoe easily cuts through sod and penetrates firm soil, which makes it great for digging and tilling gardens. This Pointed Hoe is also called a Ridging Hoe because it gets used to loosen, pull, and pile soil around the base of plants like potatoes. This process is called ridging or hilling because it creates a long raised ridge of soil that encourages a more productive potato crop.
✔ 5 pound tool, with a 5 foot long wooden handle.
( See this tool's Weight and Measurements )
✔ Simple assembly is required.
( See the Hoe Assembly Instructions )
Benefits of a Pointed Hoe
What’s It Like To Use a Pointed Hoe?
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Why You Will Love Your New Ridging Hoe
- chop through sod and soil
- create planting furrows
- easily dig in hard or rocky dirt
- ridge and hill soil around plants
Includes a 5-foot hardwood handle that allows you to stand more upright and reduces the bending required while working. Made with premium grade steel and wood so you can rest easy knowing this tool will last.
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Customer Reviews of the Pointed Hoe
I bought several tools and I love them all! Very robust and high quality making digging much easier. Especially for pulling up pasture grass where I want to plant trees and and breaking up hard compacted soil. I've donated my lesser grade tools that I used before as these are the only tools I will need. I'm so thrilled with my investment. (Grub hoe, fork hoe, pointed hoe, switchblade hoe. )
I bought several tools and I love them all! Very robust and high quality making digging much easier. Especially for pulling up pasture grass where I want to plant trees and and breaking up hard compacted soil. I've donated my lesser grade tools that I used before as these are the only tools I will need. I'm so thrilled with my investment. (Grub hoe, fork hoe, pointed hoe, switchblade hoe. )
Ordering was easy, shipping fast, and the pointed hoe and 3 tine digging fork are robust tools that work well.
I was really straining my back and arms with the old standby equipment. Since buying the pointed hoe my gardening chores are sooo much easier and quicker. Just dropping the blade into the ground, the weight of this premium tool did a great job in breaking the soil and in weeding. If only I had found this earlier.
The best digging tools you can buy, with the best price you can find. The grub and pointed hoes are on another level compared to a shovel. If you're looking to plant trees bare root or potted, invest in your time and health as these really save your back and wrists. It used to be a workout to dig a hole for a small 5 gal tree with a shovel, now I barely break a sweat and the hole is dug much faster. These tools should last you a lifetime with proper care, plus being able to get any replacement part is a home run for me.
Well made triangle hoes. Good heavy duty handles and nice heavy hoe blades.
I have several of your hoes already and have advised over 100 people to buy them in the last few years. I am a consultant for gardeners. I recently bought 2 of the "warren" hoes and at first i thought it would be too heavy for my use. but now that I have gotten used to it I like it a lot..Good quality and made to last a long time. God bless you for providing such tools for garden enthusiasts such as myself.
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"For really tough jobs such as breaking up soil for a new bed, EasyDigging offers a pointed or ridging hoe that has a beefy, two-pound, eight inch, triangular, forged steel blade that digs through rocks and gravel as well as soil. It is also terrific for mounding soil around potatoes."
*excerpts and image from the article Selecting the Right Hoe by Rita Pelczaro in The American Gardener magazine.
Using a Pointed Hoe
A pointed hoe is a type of grub hoe, but with a triangular-shaped blade that is especially useful for penetrating hard soil and pulling soil into ridges or hills. So our instructions for them are the same. With this tool you dig and cultivate with a steady chop-pull motion that is very quick, but also gentler on your back than the stomp-bend-lift motion used with a shovel or spade.
Click here for our fully detailed instructional page: How to Use a Grub Hoe
Videos of a Pointed Hoe in action
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Video of Grub, Grape, and Pointed Hoes. Nice demonstration of all three, and how they are used for different tasks. If you are in a hurry, the Grub Hoe info is at 25 seconds and at 1 minute 45 seconds (1:45), Grape Hoe at 1:15 and at 3:30, Pointed Hoe at 0:48 and at 2:35
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Irish video with good tips for using a Ridging Hoe. He shows how to use it to hill up soil around root crop plants, and a good tip for cabbage plants. His tool is a little smaller and shorter than what we sell here in the US, but the technique is the same. Credit: Fruit Hill Farm Tools / Ireland
Tool Specifications
Each pointed hoe includes:
- Forged steel hoe head
- 5 foot hardwood handle
- a large metal wedge for easy and secure assembly
Weight of complete hoe: 5 lbs
Hoe Head: Width = 8", Height = 8",
Handle: Length = 59", Weight = 3 lbs,
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Forged for heavy-duty use!
Forging is the process of forming and shaping metals through the use of hammering, pressing or rolling. The process begins with a bar or slab of steel which is heated to its plastic deformation temperature, then hammered or "kneaded" between dies to the desired shape and size. Forging is an ancient metalworking process that was done by a blacksmith pounding metal on an anvil with a hammer.
During the hot forging process, the steel's coarse grain structure is broken up and replaced by finer grains. Mechanical properties are improved by aligning the grain flow to obtain the desired directional strength. Forging can produce a piece that is stronger than an equivalent cast or machined part.
Parts and Accessories
Additional 60" handle
matched to Pointed Hoe you
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Our large metal wedge is included with every head or handle purchased.
Head for Pointed Hoe
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WARNING: You can not share one handle between two heads.
The wedged
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Keep your tools sharp! With built-in handle.
Designed to sharpen farm tools. Double-cut side for fast material
removal, and single-cut side for finer sharpening. 8" file area
+ handle = 12" long.
Shipping, Returns, and Guarantee
Shipping
- We only ship to continental US addresses.
- Orders are normally shipped the following business day.
- Shipment by Mail, UPS, or FedEx - based on cost.
- Most deliveries in 7 business days or less.
Returns
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- 30 day Refund if it doesn't perform as advertised.
- 60 day Warranty for damaged or defective items.
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Why Buy From Us?
Our philosophy here at EasyDigging is super straightforward. To deliver unique and easy-to-use tools that you will not find in local big box stores.
Our founder Greg Baka has used his engineering background to tweak common tools so they are more powerful and easier to use than ever. Every single product we offer is one we own and use on a regular basis. Every single tool we offer is exceptionally high quality so you can use it for years.
We call that the "EasyDigging Difference"
Is this Pointed Hoe the same as a Warren Hoe?
A typical Warren Hoe is also V-shaped pointed garden hoe, but it is
much much smaller. Our big triangle hoe tool is 8inches wide, while a
warren hoe is only about 3" wide. So the answer is NO. For weeding the
tight spaces between plants growing in a row, something like
our Stirrup Hoe
is much more appropriate.
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