Product Details
- Item Weight: 5.1 pounds
- Shipping Weight: 6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
- Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
- Shipping Advisory: This item must be shipped separately from other items in your order. Additional shipping charges will not apply.
- ASIN: B000QV089Q
- Item model number: 202
By : Radius Garden
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Price : $38.47
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Product Description
From the Manufacturer
Discover garden tools unlike any you've ever held before. The Radius Garden Natural Radius Grip PRO garden tools were designed using the most current research into human factors and tool usage. The patent-pending, Natural Radius Grip, maximizes your power and comfort while minimizing hand and wrist stress. Traditional garden tools force you to use your hands and wrists in a way that can cause injuries. The curve of the grip matches the curve of the palm of your hand. This allows you to hold the tools with your wrist in a safe, neutral position at all angles of attack. This maximizes power and comfort while minimizing wrist and hand stress. The large grips on Radius tools allow you to hold the tool securely without exerting pressure and wasting your energy. The PRO series tools feature four times the gripping surface of conventional tools, with room for both hands! The blades of these tools are made of a special aluminum/magnesium alloy. It weighs less than conventional die cast aluminum, but has strength similar to steel. The tools are lighter weight yet have equal or greater strength than traditional garden tools. The advanced ergonomic design should make gardening easier and more enjoyable. Built as professional quality tools, Radius Garden NRG PRO tools come with a lifetime guarantee.
Radius Garden 202 Round Point NGRPRO Shovel The PRO Shovel is a high performance, all-purpose digging tool with a round-point sharpened stainless steel blade, designed for easy digging and greater leverage. Radius PRO Stainless tools feature a large "O" handle and extra-wide raised forward kick for reduced strain, better balance, and ease-of-use. These tools also include a resin-encased steel core shaft that is virtually unbreakable. Radius Garden 202 Round Point NGRPRO Shovel Features: NRGPRO mid length shovel Four times the gripping surface with room for both hands Unbreakable resin encased steel shaft Seamless, extra long socket Extra wide raised forward step, offset from shaft for better leverage and comfort 9.4" x 3.3" x 41.0"
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Radius Garden 202 PRO Ergonomic Stainless Steel Shovel
Product Features
- Four times the gripping surface of conventional tools, with room for both hands
- Unbreakable resin-encased steel shaft
- Unique stainless steel blade design
- Extra-wide raised forward step, offset from shaft for better leverage and comfort
- Professional quality with a lifetime guarantee; Dimensions: 9.4 by 3.3 by 41.0 inches (width by depth by heigth)
Customer Reviews
I really liked the idea of this series of tools, but I doubted it would work out for me. As the earlier review mentions, the tool is short - mid-length, technically - and, like the other reviewer, I'm tall. Also, it seemed to have the potential to be mere gimmickry. I figured I'd get one of the tools, test drive it for a bit, and then grab the rest if I like it. I wound up picking the shovel for that first test.
My yard formed the testing grounds. It's thick clay in most parts, as the builders did their best to truck away the good topsoil and replace it with something that wouldn't sink their equipment. Clay, and rocks. Dig any spot and you'll hit at least one sizable rock. It killed two shovels and a digging fork, so it is dirt that does not play well with digging tools.
The first round with the shovel was somewhat simple: relocate some mud from the roadside stream to deepen it in one spot and prevent erosion in the other. This really put the lack of height at a disadvantage as I had to reach down into a 1.5' ditch. I was surprised it wasn't all that bad, and easier to use even in this case then the full-size spade. My son - who is a bit shorter than me for a few more years, anyway - did prefer the full-size; so there's some personal preference there. Where I found it really excelled was in walking down the street 50' or so without spilling any of the mud - the shovel, empty or full of clay mud, had an exceptional balance.
Some time after that, I did a round of planting - about a dozen trees, shrubs, and ferns in one to five gallon sizes. I'd gotten used to the luxury of having my son assist; this was a solo planting. With our soil, it's nice to trade off the digging, as it wears you out quickly. In actual use - much more strenuous work than the moving of mud - it did even better. I had absolutely no stress or strain, no trouble getting it to cut through forest floor or backhoe ; bulldozer packed clay. As I was doing the whole deal, the balance again came into play - this time as I set it on the wheelbarrow or across the frame of the sifter. Usually, tools like to tip or slide away from where you'd rather they stay: this would settle against the round handle and stay where I put it. A great help when there's not a second set of hands to chase things for you - or keep a wooden handle from falling on your head while you're placing a delicate plant!
I've since picked up a number of the other tools in the series, and plan on getting the rest as I prepare for the Spring season.
The spade is the second most used tool I own. As a professionl gardner, you need a tool that is comfy. The handle on this shovel is great, except it is too short. I am not a tall woman (5 ft) and this handle is just too short, you have to bend over to use it so it makes it hard on the back
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