When buying a plot for a summer residence or for building a house, the question arises of land cultivation. The simplest and most reliable tool is a regular shovel. For people with back problems, especially retirement age, it is very difficult to combine the love of working in the garden with health problems. The people invented a shovel for the lazy, which helps 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 facilitate your work.
A similar device can be done in an hour. To do this, you must have a welding machine and working skills on it.
A shovel for the lazy is made of a pipe with a diameter of 15 mm. The main element in it is the teeth, it is better when they are made of high-carbon steel with a diameter of 8 mm. Its performance application allows you to get ahead of an ordinary tool three times, and much less effort is spent on it.
A shovel for the lazy in stores has not yet been found. You can buy it only through the online store, and then at an inflated price due to the exclusivity of the product at the moment. A similar tool is found under a variety of names, most often associated with a cultivator.
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 carry out loosening of 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 does not require special efforts, women, old people and children can dig such a device. The strength of the lever reduces the work of all muscles except the arms.
An irreplaceable tool for working on the site is a garden shovel. The bayonet is made in the form of a flat rounded blade made of hardened steel with long-term sharpening. You can use it when digging the earth, digging trenches or pits. The handle made of a steel pipe possesses high durability. 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.
Handyman Grandfathers from Dnepropetrovsk came up with a tool that eliminates the torso and lifting the ground, which reduces physical stress on the muscles. Such a shovel for earthwork has increased blade sizes, which, in combination with rational movements, make it possible to dig up the garden 2.5 times faster. But the most important thing is that the lower back does not hurt, one does not feel fatigue after continuous work, even after 1.5 hours.
The design of the tool includes a blade with a holder. Approximately 140 degrees is the angle between the holder and the blade. In the upper part of the holder is attached a lanyard, borrowed from a ski pole. Two holes with a diameter of 8 mm are made in the flanged upper part of the surface of the blade. A rod made of stainless wire or chain of adjustable length with a handle is inserted into one.
The work is reminiscent of cargo using levers. Initially, as with a conventional shovel, a blade is pressed by the foot into the soil. Then the handle moves by hand towards itself, the blade, without lifting off the ground, rises along with the ground. At the last moment, the hand moves the thrust up and to the side, while the blade turns over and the earth crumbles.