When buying a plot for a summer residence or for building a house, the question arises of cultivating the land. The simplest and most reliable tool is an ordinary shovel. For people with back problems, especially those of retirement age, it is very difficult to combine the love of working in the garden with he alth problems. The people invented a shovel for the lazy, which helps to partially solve this problem. The name is not very suitable for this category of people, but for a "lazy" person it is a tool that you can rely on to make your work easier.
A similar device can be made in an hour. This requires the presence of a welding machine and skills to work on it.
Shovel for the lazy is made from a pipe with a diameter of 15 mm. The main element in it are the teeth, it is better when they are made of high-carbon steel with a diameter of 8 mm. Its use in terms of performance allows you to get ahead of an ordinary tool three times, and much less effort is spent on it.
Shovel for the lazy is not found in stores yet. You can buy it only through the online store, and then at an inflated price due toexclusivity of the product at the moment. Such a tool is found under a variety of names, most often associated with a ripper.
It is believed that a similar shovel for the lazy was invented in Yekaterinburg by Andrei Bessonov. He used a system of levers (two sets of forks), which are located opposite each other and loosen the earth to a depth of 15-20 cm. With this method, the soil is cultivated without a blade, the earth is not dug up, but only loosened. When working, no special efforts are required; women, the elderly and children can dig with such a device. Leverage reduces the work of all muscles except the arms.
An indispensable tool for working on the site is a garden shovel. The bayonet of the tool is made in the form of a flat, rounded blade made of hardened steel with durable sharpening. You can use it when digging the earth, digging trenches or holes. The handle made of steel tubing is highly durable. The handle is made of durable plastic, which reduces the load on the hands. The bayonet and handle are securely fastened with four rivets and welding, which ensures the safety of the product.
Craftsman Dedov from Dnepropetrovsk came up with a tool that eliminates the tilt of the body and raising the ground, which reduces the physical load on the muscles. This earthmoving shovel has an oversized blade that, combined with rational movements, allows you to dig a vegetable garden 2.5 times faster. But the most important thing is that the lower back does not hurt, there is no fatigue after continuous work, even after1.5 hours.
The design of the tool includes a blade with a holder. Approximately 140 degrees is the angle between the holder and the blade. A lanyard borrowed from a ski pole is attached to the top of the holder. Two holes 8 mm in diameter are made in the flanged upper part of the blade surface. One has a pull rod with a handle made of stainless wire or adjustable length chain.
The work is like turning a load with levers. Initially, as when working with a conventional shovel, the blade is pressed into the soil with a foot. Then the handle moves towards itself by hand, the blade, without leaving the ground, rises along with the ground. At the last moment, the hand moves the rod up and to the side, while the blade flips over and the earth crumbles.
