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Chatting => Equipment Shed => Topic started by: new_2_veg on September 17, 2007, 22:57

Title: azada
Post by: new_2_veg on September 17, 2007, 22:57

any idea where i can get a handle?

thanks

nathan

Title: azada
Post by: Sally A on September 17, 2007, 22:59

Nope, but when you do can you tell me the correct way to use it, I must be doing it wrong cos it hurts me back.

ta.

Title: azada
Post by: muntjac on September 17, 2007, 23:02

u mean an adze?
try www.rollins.co.uk

Title: azada
Post by: new_2_veg on September 17, 2007, 23:02

they are great, ive got the old style mattock trpe but broke my handle.

theres nothing that cant be done with it, ive never had a bad back with mine so dont realy know what to tell you

nathan

Title: azada
Post by: muntjac on September 17, 2007, 23:04

. use it like a pick axe swinging it over the head for hard ground or in the hands and use like a pick digging in and drawing it back puling the soil with the blade flat

Title: azada
Post by: Sally A on September 17, 2007, 23:05

no an azada

http://www.get-digging.co.uk/

Title: azada
Post by: muntjac on September 17, 2007, 23:10

ahhhhhhh tat one we call it  a chopping spade  here :lol:

http://www.easydigging.com/Ergonomic/Long_handled_tools.html

Title: azada
Post by: muntjac on September 17, 2007, 23:16

http://www.edirectory.co.uk/pf/880/mia/d/7+medium+azada+backsaving+allotment+tools+from+get+digging/pid/506255

Title: azada
Post by: Sally A on September 17, 2007, 23:24

I know I'm cacky handed, but I want the thing to go in deeper than it does naturally, so perhaps I give it a bit too much welly, which results in me bending to tug up the soil, which makes my back hurt more than digging.

Title: azada
Post by: muntjac on September 18, 2007, 01:19

small chopping motions just repeat em till you got the depth u want :wink:

Title: azada
Post by: Lynne on September 18, 2007, 15:59

I love my azada, it really does take a lot of the effort out of digging. I dug a trench with mine today (1 foot deep, 15 feet long) in about 20 minutes.

Title: azada
Post by: Sally A on September 18, 2007, 16:35

Well done Lynne............but HOW?

Please descripe the hacking motion you use.

Title: azada
Post by: noshed on September 18, 2007, 17:06

swing over head and chop down onto soil, then use the handle to lever the clump up. leverage is very powerful. If the soil is lighter, just chop along as you walk backwards and it will be fine.

Title: azada
Post by: Lynne on September 21, 2007, 16:21

Quote from: "Sally A"

Well done Lynne............but HOW?

Please descripe the hacking motion you use.

I stand with my feet apart and raise the azada (not above shoulder height though) and let the weight of the azada hit the ground between my feet. The tool does the work rather than your back.
 :)

Title: azada
Post by: DD. on September 21, 2007, 16:32

Quote from: "Lynne"

The tool does the work rather than your back.
 :)

Mrs Digger has a similar approach. Her husband does all the work rather than her back! :lol:

Title: azada
Post by: Lynne on September 21, 2007, 16:39

:lol:  :lol:  :lol:  :lol: