Canterbury Hoe

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Price: $75.00

An ancient ground-breaker.

Item Number: OM-H036

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The Canterbury Hoe is not really a hoe. Rather it is a 3-tine, right angle, ox-eye fork intended for groudbreaking. This pattern of tool is ancient dating back some 21 centuries or more. In the form we offer it is a familiar, if not common, tool throughout Europe, North Africa and the Near East. Similar tools can be found in most other regions of Africa, Asia, India, and the Western Pacific.

Using the tool is simple. To break ground, it is lifted overhead and swung downwards in a wide area to drive the tines into the earth. Then you lift on the handle to lever the earth loose. To break up clods, you wield the tool with a short, chopping motion. It can also be used as a heavy duty drag to move brush piles, spread manure, or empty the back of your truck at the dump. The head of this tool was forged in England many years ago by the Chillington Company. We furnish it with a 54-inch handle. It ships with the head removed from the handle.

The size, shape, and weight of this item means we must charge an additional $10 shipping fee to our flat rate shipping rate to accommodate for the actual cost of shipping it.

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Senior Grounds Maintenance Worker

I oversee, plan, and execute plant work for my city's parks, planted ROWs, and facilities. This Canterbury Hoe breaks up compacted beds turned turf, spreads arbor chips, and hooks debris and blackberry canes like a champ. I am going to buy more for the rest of the crew, because the one we have now is always in my truck.

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Reviewed by: Colin McFeron from Shoreline on 2/16/2023

Garden hobbist

Got my hoe a few weeks ago and was finally able to get in the garden to use it. I am very happy that I got this and highly recommend it. It is well designed. I was initially worried that it would not hold up like my father's 60+ year old hoe. It is about 1 inch smaller and 1/2 pound lighter. The handle is relatively thin compared to the old hoe's which was made out of a 2 by 3 inch piece of lumber. I was looking for something similar but could not find one, much less getting it sent to Hawaii. The ones at the big box stores were to flimsy looking for the digging of the clay/mud soil in my garden/yard.

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Reviewed by: (Verified Buyer) Wilfred Higashi from Honolulu on 8/22/2021

Canterbury Hoe

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