A human powered rototiller.We've had many requests for a Broadfork, and without further ado: here it is! We have collaborated with WW Manufacturing and consulted with Eliot Coleman on the design of this powerful garden tool. Constructed with extra strong, heat treated steel blades and aircraft quality, lightweight, tubular steel handles. The 7 tines are 10" long and tapered to a point. Overall it is 60" tall and 27" wide, yet weighs only 15 lbs.
The size allows you to deep till a 30" wide bed in one pass, improving tilth without disturbing soil structure. Perfectly designed to maintain your double dug beds in a fraction of the time (and effort) it takes to re-tilth with a digging fork.
It's very easy and stable to stand on this tool and use your weight and gravity to move the blades through the soil. An all body workout similar to a rowing machine, but you are outside listening to birdsong and feeling the sunshine as you "work" :-)
We will post a video soon, when the soil here dries out a bit, of the broadfork in action.
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