Ground Hog Rake
Circular Heads Rake Twice as Fast with Half the Effort!
Few Radius tools have been less understood by the public and more loved by their users than our G-Series rakes. They look weird, have goofy mascots (a woodchuck and a green shark), and in addition to being the greatest garden rakes I’ve ever used they do a lot of things that normal rakes won’t do.
When you look at the Ground Hog the first thing you notice is the curved head with straight tines. You might also notice that the shaft is longer than most rakes and is pitched at an angle that doesn’t force you to bend over when using the rake. People also get confused when they hear the word “ergonomic.” It is derived from the Latin for “work naturally.” So when we design an ergonomic rake we don’t add some crazy bend to the shaft; instead we allow you to work naturally by standing up straight in a way that won’t hurt your back.
With the Ground Hog in hand the next thing you will notice is that the curved head will grab and gather much more material than it seems like it should based on its size. It’s not unlike the way you reach out with your own hands placing your fingers in a curved semi-circle to grab and gather. The next thing you might notice about the Ground Hog is that it isn’t limited much in what it will grab and gather. Wet leaves, mulch, branches, trash; just about anything with which conventional rakes have a lot of trouble. It’s a natural shrub rake that won’t break or get caught in stems like most conventional shrub rakes. The circular head design allows you to rake around a corner, so you can get behind existing landscape easily. Another unique benefit of the circular head rake design is that while it rakes away almost anything, it requires only a very light touch that will not damage the landscape underneath it.
What I love the most about the Ground Hog is that the head is angled so that when you flip it over you can use it like a pitch fork. This makes garden and lawn cleanup a breeze. As a prairie plant gardener one of my annual spring tasks is to clean up the thousands of tall wildflower stems left over from the previous growing season. I use only one tool for this task: the Ground Hog. The first step in the process is to snap the stems at their bases by sweeping the Ground Hog back and forth in a pendulum-like motion. Next, I rake the stems into piles. Most of these stems are 2 to 4 feet long, so conventional rakes are useless for this. Finally, I pitch the piles, using the Ground Hog like a fork, for composting.
Once you try the Ground Hog and Garden Shark rakes I am convinced you will never use a conventional rake again.
The ergonomically designed, Ground Hog Rake is so versatile that it’s almost impossible to describe all of its uses but you can Learn More About this Product Here
Garden Shark Rake
Circular Heads Rake Twice as Fast with Half the Effort!
Few Radius tools have been less understood by the public and more loved by their users than our G-Series rakes. They look weird, have goofy mascots (a woodchuck and a green shark), and in addition to being the greatest garden rakes I’ve ever used they do a lot of things that normal rakes won’t do.
The Garden Shark may look even stranger to many people than does the Ground Hog. There are two major differences in design that give the Garden Shark some wonderful and unique properties as a rake. In addition to its circular head, the tines of the Garden Shark curve sharply inward. That curvature, combined with an even longer shaft than that of the Ground Hog, makes the Garden Shark the best all around garden and lawn rake I’ve ever used.
While you can use the Garden Shark for almost anything around the home, I have three favorite applications for it that I will describe.
First, the curved tines of the Garden Shark make it an ideal rake for cleaning and cultivating garden soil. It reaches out to grab unwanted rocks, dirt clods, and other refuse just like you would do with your own hands, except that you can be working on a corner of the garden 5 or 6 feet away from you without bending over. The angles of the tines and shaft combine to allow an ergonomic, stress free raking experience with no lower back stress. As you work the Garden Shark back and forth in your garden you will notice that it combs and cultivates the soil on the pull stroke while smoothing it on the back stroke. You will be amazed at how the same curvature in the tines that grabs and gathers on the pull stroke will glide across the soil on the push stroke leaving it perfectly smooth for planting.
I have large naturally landscaped areas in my yard that are covered with mulch for appearance and weed control. The Garden Shark is absolutely the finest mulch rake I have ever used. It will grab and gather mulch on the pull stroke and smooth it on the push stroke. The curvature is perfect for smoothing even fibrous mulch materials, such as shredded bark, with nothing more than a gentle pushing motion where the weight of the rake head does all of the smoothing work for you. This contrasts with years of flipping over a straight rake and struggling to smooth mulch until I ended up on my hands and knees fixing all of the problem areas. The curved head also allows you to mulch right around a corner or between existing landscape. The same pull/push stroke method works very well to refresh trampled mulch periodically. The Garden Shark is at least twice as fast for mulching as an other method I’ve ever seen.
A third application I want to highlight for the Garden Shark is for dethatching lawns. The first time I tried this on my own lawn I was amazed at how the Garden Shark will pull itself down and comb out the thatch with almost no effort. A quick push will clean all of the thatch from the tines. It’s really easy.
Once you try the Garden Shark and Ground Hog rakes I am convinced you will never use a conventional rake again.
The ergonomically designed, Garden Shark Rake is so versatile that it’s almost impossible to describe all of its uses but you can Learn More About this Product Here