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.
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