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Chatting => Equipment Shed => Topic started by: rowlandwells on January 19, 2019, 15:41

Title: a hoe on wheels
Post by: rowlandwells on January 19, 2019, 15:41

I was watching a farming program the other afternoon and it  included a smallholder growing veg I think it was in Northern Ireland I was watching one of the lads using a hoe on wheels I think we used to call them a J Hoe but not sure  :unsure:

did anyone see the prog or knows what they call this type of hoe?

Title: Re: a hoe on wheels
Post by: mumofstig on January 19, 2019, 15:49

Funnily enough it's called a wheel hoe ;) They are quite expensive to buy.

One on ebay reasonable starting price
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Jalo-Gardener-vintage-wheeled-manual-cultivator-with-plough-hoe-fittings/183639141204?hash=item2ac1beeb54:g:JcEAAOSwikBcPynT:rk:14:pf:0

Title: Re: a hoe on wheels
Post by: rowlandwells on January 20, 2019, 16:26

 I see what your saying MUM I think I mite stick with the wheel-less type anyway thanks for that reply I couldn't remember what they called it although  I have seen them used but not for a year or two

Title: Re: a hoe on wheels
Post by: Growster... on January 20, 2019, 21:08

Rowland, here's one I made earlier...

The 'Growster' Wheel Hoe... in Equipment Shed - Page 1 of 2 (http://chat.allotment-garden.org/index.php?topic=74517.0)

I've still got it, and if you're ever around here, you're welcome to have it! (We've given up 'The Patch' after a long and hard decision time!

It's very 'robust' and like many of these implements, home-made, but there again, why not replicate the actions of our forebears!

Title: Re: a hoe on wheels
Post by: Plot 1 Problems on January 20, 2019, 23:49

Thanks for that link Growster, you've given me some ideas now to make something similar myself!

*Scheming commences*

Title: Re: a hoe on wheels
Post by: jezza on January 22, 2019, 22:04

hello I think its the jlo hoe your on about

Title: Re: a hoe on wheels
Post by: grinling on January 23, 2019, 21:46

I pictured an ordinary how with bike stabilisers attached  :wacko:

Title: Re: a hoe on wheels
Post by: R Tallentire on January 25, 2019, 09:28

In the UK these hoes were made by J Lowe Ltd who called them the JaLo, but the tools are identical to those made in the US by Planet Junior. My "specialist subject" is Merry Tillers, and Wolseley/Webb sold the JaLo tools to be fitted to the back of Merry Tillers. You could get side hoes, small furrowers, Dutch hoes, rakes, etc. I think either Planet Junior or JaLo sold a two wheel version of the hoe frame too.

Title: Re: a hoe on wheels
Post by: Growster... on January 25, 2019, 10:44

Here's a clip from the Marshalls 1988 catalogue...

Title: Re: a hoe on wheels
Post by: greenjay on January 25, 2019, 19:08

i have a jalo. not sure if its a hoe or a ridger. it has two wheels and like a ridger plough type thing In front.
I never found it very easy to use. maybe my soil is not loose enough