hey everybody Sam here and I'm Angela and we're Green acre homestead so we're down
here at our lower garden and it's actually behind you guys even turn
around you be able to see it if you can't turn around don't worry we'll turn
around here in a second let you see it but today's video is we want to share
with you guys a tool that we have been using for a couple months it is like it
has been I think we had this tool for the lower garden right as soon as we
finished tilling it so it's as old as our garden yeah since May and what this
tool is is the Hoss tools double wheel hoe and what this video is going to be
is our review experience and sharing with you guys two months into it what we
think of it let's go
we've got all the pieces out of the box and the first step I'm actually gonna do
is put some Danish oil on all the wood pieces I want these to last as long as
they will so I'm go ahead and rub those down and get them a really good cutting
a Danish roll first
all right so you are have been reading instructions so that you can just give
orders take the axle shaft okay axle shaft they put the two dust caps on
another dust cap thread the lock nuts each end of that shaft all right we have
the wheel assembly put together we got the drive shaft the two little dust
boots to dust boots on each wheel both on the insides outside and then the
three-eighths lock nuts and then you tighten it all together with two
half-inch wrenches here bottom them out on the axle shaft yep so it says right
yes yeah I figured they machined it properly so there's very little wobble
and everything's tightened down real good there all right what's next handle
installation that's what it shows easy take the wheels on stick the handles on
and get to working hmm don't get this on your shirt at all it does have a hole on
it
position handles to the outside of each toolbar handle mouth
place four quarter inch by one and three quarter here at carriage head bolt
through the toolbar handle mount and out through the handle logos should be
facing outward on each handle I got the total for the day yes no fasting using
quarter inch flat washer then a quarter inch
lock washer and a quarter inch nut
alright got a little bit of wig glue here we're going to go ahead and glue
this crossmember in for the handles this is tight bond to wood glue it's a good
interior and exterior glue alright that is together now we're going to use these
screws that they give you with pre-drill holes and everything and attach it on
the end here
alright that's done what we do next time okay
handles are on now we tighten these so there's a little bit of adjustment with
this that you can go up and down a little bit
we are short so let's make these the shortest as possible which is kind of
let them relax that way this double wheel hoe kit that we got comes with a
few attachments we get four of these cultivator tines these are adjustable as
far as width spacing and the number you want to use we also got three of these
four inch winged sweeps these are really heavy-duty supposed to go underneath the
stool as far as cutting the roots and killing any kind of weeds and stuff like
that so there's a three pack of those and it's fully adjustable as well the
next time so we have is a firmer and a Hiller in one you can turn it see this
way will make a furrow but if you swap the blades left to right and do this way
it'll let you heal on the left and right of your vegetables and rogues this would
be really really useful for the furrows for opening up furrows for planting and
for putting on irrigation lines and stuff like that and then for healing to
heal our plants and the last attachment we've got is a stirrup hoe or
oscillating hoe or scuffle hoe this is I believe ten inches wide this is
extremely sharp spring steel on the bottom of this and what this is designed
to do is to glide underneath the surface of the soil and really cut and slice and
cut out all of your vegetation that you don't want it does pivot back and forth
that's normal by design and it allows you to kind of work across the sole and
cut things out we'll show you all this here really soon - hey what get over
here and start the video I can't help myself we got a new toy okay what did we
get we got a double wheel hoe from hostel
mm-hmm what is a double wheel hoe how would you explain it cuz you asked me
when I said I want to get a new tool for the
garden it is a multi-use tool you can get like other attachments to it to put
an irrigation to make heels to plow to cultivate to seed mm-hmm
pretty good that pretty much covers it it's a multi-use wieder cultivator
oscillating hoe stirrup hoe yeah yep so we were down here on our lower garden
today and we are going to use the Hoss tools double wheel hoe to cultivate our
rows and prepare them to lay down some drip tape and if we don't get rained out
go ahead and start planting some seeds now the reason that we wanted to do this
instead of using like our little tractor or something like this something like
that is this is a lot more maneuverable and works in our big small garden better
than a tractor would we can do a lot more finessing with it and we can also
use it to kind of weed in between the rows whereas we wouldn't be able to get
the tractor in and out to do that especially with the deer fence up right
our method of gardening is row style but not row style where you have a big
tractor and just drive it through it's kind of like in-between row garden and
small garden so having it too like this definitely lets us get into tight spots
and not make us leave everything wide open for a big tractor to drive there
here so he's going to start cultivating the rows and kind of putting where our
rows are going to be parallel to the fence right here and see how far we can
get
it's too wet it's too wet it's way too wet down here still this is clogging up
bad it's not ideal what you what I know you don't want to what we have to give
it in me yeah I do want to it's just it's too wet that's making the tool look
bad I know the tool that's a lot better than this house down here week or two
ago you know what roll that beautiful bean
footage those down here two weeks or so ago and me and the boys were trying this
out on fresh dirt and it worked brighter yes dry dirt and it worked
great so let this footage be an example of it does work and just let this video
right here be an example of don't do it when it's wet unless you got no choice
like us it still works you just have to put more effort yeah
as you can see we have had this for a while and we have been using him she's
dirty she's muddy but that's the way a garden
tool should be we're gonna take this stuff off here this is what I put on
here to clamp a GoPro to it for some video this is not part of the wheel hoe
tool take that off real quick and flip it over we've got here is the stirrup
hoe or oscillating hoe bed and take this off the nine sixteenths inch wrench here
so I'm gonna swap this out for water one of my favorite attachments which are
these the winged sweeps they are kind of like cultivators with wings on the
bottom in fact that's exactly what they are well I've got on the table here I
want to make sure these arms are adjusted as low as they will go because
these have always felt tall to us oh man that's the issue we've used this thing
for a month and a half with the arms raised as high as they go no wonder it's
always felt really really tall
we got a section here at the garden I'll zoom in on it let you see it better
where I mean we got weeds that tall it's not been weeded down here in a couple
weeks we've had a lot of rain and it's just like oh I'm dreading it but I want
to show you guys how easy it actually is to do with this tool now this isn't the
only tool you can use obviously you can mow it you could we'd eat it you could
use a hoe you could use a tiller we have a tiller we could use that but the wheel
house nice because it is self powered you know you power it so as long as you
can go it can go you don't need gas or anything like that
it's not loud unless you get really loud and it's good exercise
so whatever enough jackin let me put the camera down here so you can see it
actually work and the benefit of the wheel hoe in this situation yeah
so I don't normally go back and rake the stuff up but I wanted to do that to give
you guys I guess proof or be able to see closely how well this thing does and
just cutting the roots killing the root systems laying the stuff over and
allowing you to leave it which is what I do or break it up and dispose of it so
piece of cake I'm gonna go ahead and run through these rows okay no Who am I
kidding I'm not gonna run through the rows I'll go ahead and hit the rows the
main walkways of the garden here cultivate them up get rid of the weeds
as quick as I can and be back in a few minutes hopefully just a few minutes
Hey where's the kids and the family when you
need them they're usually always down here I'll never get any moment it's
myself working well I guess now I do I probably it's all that I was using the
wheel hook going at it real hard they're like yeah we're good let's leave them
alone well looks like I finished just in time for it to start sprinkling and
cameras don't tend to do that good in the rain so go ahead and call it quits
for this evening I did at least get all of the garden weeded to cultivated with
the wheel hoe on the roads and everything and it's a very difficult at
least on the sides of it there's still some walkways but the weeds aren't that
bad down there
all right give us some thoughts about that wheel huh what do you think it's
really cool and I really like it to pull up all of the weed is it easy or hard to
do I'm sort of easiest and hard between alright I'll let you get back to work
okay
well I have to say overall the will hoe has been a blessing to have in the
garden for sure it's definitely a back saver
it makes the weeding a lot easier and it's not nearly as back-breaking or arm
breaking as just using the hoe or just a small slip hoe by itself definitely yeah
I would say it's a perfect tool worth the investment worth quality wise and
everything exceptional build quality I would say it's definitely worth it if
you're doing a garden that is too large that you think you can manage with just
hand weeding tools but too small for large tractors and stuff I think or if
you don't have the money for yeah the mowing the large equipment right yeah
it's definitely a perfect tool for that middle ground that I think a lot of
people are in I think for a long time we did small gardens because we were
nervous about the maintenance mhm and while our garden by no means is an
example of look how well maintained it is oh no keep in mind we're in our first
year there's a lot of weed seeds in our bank there so the more we stay on top of
it that you have for your it'll get better but this is still a really good
tool so as always links are down below if you want to check it out we
appreciate you guys watching and hanging out with us in our garden if you have
any questions or comments things we didn't cover what do they do leave a
comment below leave a comment below otherwise I see you guys next time
on the homestead see ya bye