Hoss Wheel Hoe
Hoss Wheel Hoe
Cultivate, Plow & Weed Your Garden The Easy Way
4.7 / 5.0
359 Ratings
Standard packages:
These are the base models, with just
Single Wheel = $249
(easier + more precise steering)
Double Wheel = $289
(more weeding options / more stability)
Meet your new best friend in gardening.
How much time and energy would you save if you could cultivate soil, furrow, build ridges, control weeds, hill corn and more using just one tool?
The Wheel Hoe is a time tested garden tool that has been used in gardens and small farms for over a century. Our Hoss push plow can be enhanced with lots of modern implements to make your most common gardening projects easier than ever before.
Simply attach options like the sweeps, stirrup hoes, plows and more to the universal toolbar to transform it into
whatever you need it to be...on demand.
What’s It Like To Use This Wheel Hoe?
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Why You Will Love Your New Hoss Wheel Hoe
- You can be confident knowing it is made with heavy duty steel & Amish-crafted ash handles - built to last a lifetime.
- You will complete common gardening tasks in half the time by attaching different implements to the Universal Toolbar.
- Easy on your back since you stand upright while you work. The low center of gravity makes this tool easy to use for all ages.
- It is Made in the USA
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Loaded packages:
So many people were getting PLOWS and an 8" OSCILLATING HOE with their orders, that we made it into a package. And we cut the price!
Single Wheel =
$352 $339
(easier + more precise steering)
Double Wheel =
$392 $379
(more weeding options / more stability)
If you would like to substitute the
What Will I Get?
If you would like to substitute the
Attachments Included:
Customer Reviews of the Hoss Wheel Hoes
I purchased a hoss two wheel hoe for our 4800 square foot garden. It is a well made tool easy to use that does all the jobs are required of it. Soil preparation to weeding in our garden. Sweet corn planting and potato planning has been greatly improved by using this tool. I would recommend this tool for any gardener.
I received my garden push plow in a timely manner. I purchased the double wheel package, cultivators, 8" oscillating hoe, furrow/hilling plow set. I have only used the hiller for covering potatoes so far. Gardening is so hard on the back, I know this tool will make great difference. Great tool."
I am very pleased with the Hoss wheel hoe. For the first time in my life I think I can stay ahead of the grass and weeds. I'm looking forward to the entire season of gardening now. I recommend this tool.
I love my Hoss Wheel Hoe. It shortens the time spent by about half. I am 62 years old and I tend about a 1/4 acre garden with only hand tools. The Hoss Wheel Hoe is now one of my favorites. The Earthway that I originally used is not nearly as efficient. I wish I had bought this years ago. Service with Easy Digging has been good as well.
I love this Hoss double wheel hoe! We bought the 2 wheel loaded package with the disc harrow. We can do DAYS worth of weeding in hours with this thing. We grow 2 acres of vegetables for farmer's markets and this little baby is an incredible time saver. I believe I may even have the chance to go fishing this summer.
See more Reviews ▶How To Use a Wheel Hoe
Rather than explaining with words, here are a few videos showing the Hoss wheel hoe cultivator being used. You can also see more videos on the pages for the individual attachments. Visit our Wheel Hoe FAQ page for more usage ideas.
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Video with the Plows: This does show the older plows (with the green brackets) but the new plows are the same size and work the same way. You can see the plows used individually, and as a pair.
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Oscillating hoe in Action: This one shows our most common weeding attachment in use. Note how she walks it forward with a steady push. Debris can be cleared from the blade by pulling the handles back a bit.
Attachments for the Hoss Wheel Hoes
Weeding, plowing, cultivating & more made easy. Click to see the list of all Hoss attachments.
Visit any attachment's page below for full details and videos.
Click here for Assembly and Usage Instructions for all attachments.
Wheel Hoe Specifications
Product Specifications:
Each Hoss wheel cultivator includes:
Steel Wheel(s) - 15" Diameter - 3/8" bore with bronze bushings
Frame: Heavy-duty 1/4" formed steel, with green powdercoat finish
Handles: Ash hardwood - 56" long - with cross brace, unfinished
Cultivator Teeth: 3/16" thick steel with black powdercoat finish
Misc: All Fasteners and Instructions are included
Guarantee: 30 Day Refund / One Year Warranty (details)
Buy a Hoss wheel hoe online from us with confidence that it is the best equipped tool on the market. Use the oscillating hoe, plows, or the cultivator teeth to prep your garden and keep the rows clean all season.
All steel construction, finished off with a set of Amish made ash handles. This is a heirloom quality tool you can pass down to the next generation of gardeners.
Made in the USA
Assembly Instructions for the:
Single wheel model
and
Shipping, Returns, & Why Buy From Us
Shipping
- We only ship to continental US addresses.
- Free Shipping for orders with an item total over $99.00
- Orders are normally shipped the following business day.
- Shipment by UPS or Priority Mail - our choice.
- Most deliveries in 5 business days or less.
Returns
- Save your shipping carton.
- 30 day Refund if it doesn't perform as advertised.
- One Year Warranty for damaged or defective items.
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One Year Warranty details:
- The one year warranty covers any defects in materials or workmanship, with the exceptions stated below.
- The warranty does not cover discoloration caused by exposure to sunlight or chemicals.
- Hoss will repair or replace any item that proves to be defective in materials or workmanship.
- In the event repair is not possible, Hoss will either replace your item with a new item of similar composition and price, or refund the full purchase price of the item — whichever you prefer.
Why Buy From Us?
Our philosophy here it Easy Digging 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 "Easy Digging Difference"
Wheel hoes have been used for so many generations for one reason: they work great!
When your garden is too big for hand hoeing and too small for a tractor, the Hoss wheel cultivator is the tool to use. It is the easiest way of manually cultivating and weeding long rows of garden plants.
The Planet Jr. Wheel Hoe is back! Good ideas never go away for long....
In the 1910's, 20's, 30's, and 40's the wheel cultivator ruled the gardening world. Every big garden had a wheeled hoe, and the Planet Junior models were king!
But in the 1950's market gardening started to quickly lose ground to industrial farming, while herbicides began replacing manual weeding tools. By the 70's we had almost lost a wealth of small-scale agricultural skills and tools. Fortunately enough young homesteaders and old-timers kept the knowledge alive.
Hoss Tools has duplicated the original Planet Jr push plow so well that the new attachments fit perfectly with the many of the old antique Planet Junior models and also the Glaser wheel hoe - an expensive European version of the Planet Jr.
Recently published experiences from Carol Deppe's popular book,
The Tao of Vegetable Gardening
These days I handle all my weeding of my half-acre home garden with a Hoss Tools wheel hoe and hand tools.....I can grow about about as much food on
half an acre weeded with a push plow and hand tools as on an acre spaced so that weeding between rows can be done with a rototiller.....When
the weeds are tiny and tender, you can weed with a wheel cultivator with a stirrup hoe attachment by just walking straight down the row about as
fast as you would walk normally, pushing the Hoss hoe in front of you. Ideally, you keep your garden weed-free by making such quick, almost
effortless passes over it frequently.....
How is your Hoss Wheel Hoe different from other brands?
Here is a link to a detailed brand comparison, but we can summarize it quickly... The models from Hoss Tools have a wider selection of attachments, at a lower price, than the other brands.
And they are made in the USA! The old-style garden push plows that just had some cultivator teeth or a plow blade have been replaced with these modern marvels with a wide variety of weeding, plowing, and cultivating attachments.
If your budget is tight, check out our more affordable Euro Wheel Hoe
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Exclusive Wheel Hoe Info
Exclusive book excerpt from Professor John R Stilgoe of Harvard
"By the close of the first decade of the new century, a handful of pleasure gardeners largely outside the circle of government-backed researchers had determined that vegetable gardens ought to be redesigned to make the most of the wheeled hoe's efficiency and that it ought to be the center of a larger system. Systematizing vegetable gardening in order to increase efficiency struck no one as new, but the notion of the wheeled hoe - and to a lesser extent, the scuffle hoe - as the generators of a system did. While Allen and Company had long claimed that large-scale truck farmers frequently employed ten or more men on large fields, each pushing a wheeled cultivator, not until 1911 did one innovator study the efficiency of the wheel hoe weeder in the small, family-sized garden..."
Serious Gardeners: Be sure to read our latest article...
"So it is indeed best to manage your garden so that you only have to deal with small weeds. The secret to this has been known to farmers for many years, but rarely used by gardeners. Now that gardeners are kicking the herbicide habit it is time for this weeding secret to be shared."
Greg's Tips
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Handle Height
I occasionally hear from customers who say that it feels awkward to push their Hoss hoe because the handles are too high or too low. The fix is to adjust the handle height. There is quite a range of adjustability by simply loosening the bolts that attach the handles to the frame and angling the handles differently, as shown on page 4 step 7 on these Assembly Instructions.
If that doesn't move the handles enough for your liking, there is one more trick. The angle of the frame itself can also be changed by adjusting the arms that connect the wheel to the frame. Take a look at the starred note (*) in the middle of page 3 of the Assembly Instructions. First note where the slots on the wheel arms are currently (high or low), then loosen the 4 bolts and pivot the wheel cultivator's arms the other direction. If you do not have an assistant to hold the handles while you do this, just temporarily remove the handles.
Keep it sharp...sort of
Weeding attachments like the sweeps or the oscillating hoes sometimes act as cutting tools. But most of the time they are scraping tools that lift the top layer of soil and then dump it off the back edge of the blade. So they need to be sharpened in a special way.
What they sometimes need to cut is the matted roots of grassy weeds, or the stems of bigger weeds they can not uproot. So you want the edges to be just barely sharp enough to tackle these. If they are too sharp, that edge will just quickly wear away in the soil. And if you keep re-sharpening them over and over trying to keep it too sharp, you will soon wear away the whole metal blade.
So the edge should not be sharp enough that you are likely to cut yourself while handling the tools. And please use a file or coarse sharpening stone to maintain the edge. A grinder is likely to overheat the metal, which softens it and lets it dull very quickly.
More coming Soon...
and even more...
Research report on Scale-Appropriate Weed Control Tools for the Small Farm