The CobraHead® precision weeder and cultivator is the closest
thing to a universal garden tool. Its blade is a steel fingernail®
that becomes an extension of your hand.
The CobraHead® Long
Handle uses the same "steel fingernail" blade as used on the
award-winning CobraHead Weeder and Cultivator garden tool. The Long Handled tool
is easy to use. Numerous gardening, landscaping, and agricultural taks are
performed by hand, while standing up.
Uses for the tool include cultivating, weeding, scalping, furrowing, raking,
de-thatching, edging, compost bed maintenance and more.
Older Gardeners and gardeners with limited kneeling and bending ability will
find the tool and especially enabling device.
The tool is ideal for agricultural workers for whom short handled tools are
either discouraged or not allowed. It weeds deeply and precisely next to
valuable crops without damaging the crop or its roots.
The blade is easily replaceable. The tough tool is exceptionally well
made in Wisconsin, USA.
CobraHead Long Handle weighs approx. 2lbs.6oz. The overall tool length is
62".
The CobraHead® out-weeds and out-digs all similar tools.
The time proven blade design breaks up and plows almost any soil.
The comfortable and efficient handle allows easy left-hand or right-hand
action.
Frequently Asked Questions
A: It's probably the best all around small garden
tool available. It has a range of uses that will make it indispensable to most
gardeners. It weeds, it digs, it scalps, it cultivates, and it does all these
jobs exceptionally well.
Q: What makes CobraHead® different from other
tools that look almost the same?
A: There are lots of tools that have a similar blade
head shape to CobraHead®, but they are not the same. The CobraHead®
blade is thin, and wears to knife-like edge. Other similar tools are flat and
thicker along the cutting edge. While this may seem to be a small difference, it
makes a huge difference in soil and weed cutting ability. The CobraHead®
cuts through all soils easily. What weeds it cannot pull out it chops off below
the soil.
There are similar weeders that do have a sharp blade. The most popular tools
are made under various names.
These tools have a blade that is sharp on one edge only and can only be used for
right hand weeding. The CobraHead® out-performs these tools in its
weeding capability, it can be used right-handed or left-handed, and it has many
other uses besides weeding.
Q: What makes the CobraHead® a "precision"
weeder?
A: The relatively narrow blade head and the pointed
tip let the CobraHead® work as though its blade were a steel
fingernail®. You can get right next to delicate plants and
grab the weed and pull it out.
Q: Is the CobraHead® effective on all weeds?
A: While I doubt there is such a thing as a
universal weeder, the CobraHead® appears to be as close as you can
get. I find it the best tool for grasses of all types. It does a great job on
low-lying weeds such as purslane and spurge. It is great on dandelions and
tap-rooted weeds. And because of its scalping ability even the weeds that can't
be pulled out can be cut off quite deeply underground.
Q: How do you "grab" weeds with the CobraHead®?
A: I think everyone who uses this tool will develop
their own style, but I find that if I push the blade into the ground just beyond
the root and crown of the weed and pull the tool towards me, it pulls the whole
weed loose. Usually I can pull dandelions and similar rooted weeds out in a
single motion, with minimal disturbance to plants around the weed.
Q: What about cultivation? Why would I want to use a
single bladed tool as a cultivator?
A: The unique blade shape of the CobraHead®
has proven itself for years as an extremely efficient soil-cutting tool. What it
may lose in width covered with a single pass is more than offset by the ease
with which it cuts soil. You don't kill yourself trying to break hard soil. I
find its ability to break up soil and pull up weed roots at the same time to be
the best way to cultivate my beds.
Q: What else does CobraHead® do well?
A: I use it as a transplanter. I almost never use a
trowel anymore. I use it as a seeder to either dig a small hole or make a furrow
line. I use it to de-thatch very weedy areas that need to be cleaned up. I use
it as an edger both in the garden and along walkways. I find new uses all the
time. The CobraHead® is the first I tool take with me when I go into
the garden.
Q: I'm a flower gardener, does the CobraHead®
work for me?
A: Flower gardeners will find this tool invaluable. Its ability to be
extremely precise makes it ideal. It is a great bulb transplanter. It is great
in rock gardens.