My dad used to have a long handled gardening tool that looked like a hoe but just had a single bent finger or tine. Kinda like a really skinny hoe :). I’ve been trying to track one down because I have a bunch of weeds growing in the crack between a walkway and a wall. It’s the perfect tool for de-weeding the crack.
What the hell is this tool called? I seem to recall something like a harrow, or a farrow. Maybe you used it to drag a furrow to toss seeds into. Maybe it’s a furrower.
I don’t have an answer for you, but you could just get one of these and run it through the crack sideways or cut the two outside tines off with an angle grinder.
ETA, found it.
A crack hoe?
One tine, not one tooth.
“weeding cultivator” a facile euphemism.
“It’s time to cultivate you, motherfucker!”
Ooh, I’ve got one with a twisty prong. It’s grand for digging out a tap root. No idea what it’s called, I just call it the “weed thing”.
Boiling water poured into cracks where weeds live helps kill them.
Roundup!
This is not going to be much help, but in German that’s a Sauzahn, literally “sow [as in pig] tooth”.
Is it maybe just a broken hoe? I know when I was a kid we had a set of gardening tools that came from various sources - a number were in the house+acre we bought - that were either hand-made, modified or just fixed from broken. One was obviously just the “spine” of a heavy-duty hoe from which the blade had separated, leaving just an indestructible hook thing that was good for many hard digging/hoeing type jobs.
Cultivator is my answer too. Although what I think of as a cultivator doesn’t look like a trowel on a stick…Google Image Search.
Try Google image search for “mattock,” I’d link but I’m on my phone. Mattocks are usually two sided with a pick axe and narrow hoe, but some are just the hoe part. Even if that’s not it, it might work.
Google “CobraHead”. That is the most popular brand of the tool you’re searching for
Hey Joey P how’s it feel to be completely ignored? After all, you did answer the question in the first post.
Apologies to Joey, I only clicked on his first link.
The pictures there look like dentists’ tools.
Yeah, but it’s 2 pounds and 4.5 feet long. Not so good for precision work, but if you open really wide I’ll take a crack at that parsley between your teeth.
Story of my life.
Thanks peeps. That Flexrake one looks pretty good.
