Rogue Heavy Duty Hoe 70G

This is a quality hoe that I'm not sure how you would improve it for general use. To begin with the quality of the tool depends on the quality of the metal in the head. These are made from agricultural disc blades of hardened steel. As a disc used in the field these would see more slicing in the soil in five minutes than the average user will supply in 5 years. It will stay sharp longer than any big box tool and take any punishment you dish out. Next the sharpened edges are great for working under plants and breaking through harder ground. Finally the handle, while as one person noted is slightly rough, it is quality wood with the grain turned to withstand heavy use, like a baseball bat. The roughness doesn't both me as it will polish quickly with use and I wear gloves anyway. Some people have complained about the weight. I would say it's appropriate to the tool and not noticeable. It's a hoe so you still have to exert some strength to pull it through the ground. The weight only aids in cutting into the soil and making it feel like a quality tool. Finally, I have always preferred the flatter profile hoes to the traditional taller shape. It lets the soil flow over the top as you pull it rather than having to drag soil in front and move it with each stroke. I look forward to many years of use with this tool.

It's been many years (too many) since I chopped cotton in the field. And many years since I last used a decent well made hoe. I didn't think they made the good ones anymore. But they do. You can find them on the net, but they cost a lot more than the cheap flimsy garbage sold in all the stores. I was looking at those and stumbled onto this thing. I was impressed by the ruggedness the toughness. A real heavy duty hoe. I won't be breaking this one by leaning on the handle. The blade looks small, but it's thick steel giving it plenty of weight for a powerful swing.. with little effort. I don't chop cotton, but I do chop some mighty big weeds. I keep it nice and sharp, so I can slice them off above ground, at ground level, and even dig out the roots. I don't, but it would be a joy to garden with it. I use it to clear weeds.. any size.. any type. The wide part can clear a lot of ground and the sharpened ends are perfect for getting to the deepest roots. Watch out for rust and this may well be the last hoe you ever need to buy.

Best garden hoe you'll ever need. Ash handle, extremely sharp, high quality, will last forever if you take care of it and don't let anyone borrow it. And did I say it was sharp!

It has the weight and sharpness to penetrate deep with little effort and of course you pull your dirt and vegetation around just as easily as any other hoe...but the Prohoe has the strength. If needed it will easily chop small branches and very tough plant material that a regular hoe does not stand a chance with. Once you use this tool, you will give your regular hoe away....you will know that this tool was made for work! There are several to choose from. I got the lightest one for my 72 year old mother. Even though its the lightest Rogue Hoe..it is a superior tool for her gardening. This is my "Go To" tool....for removing snakes from my yard & garden. Its strong, its sharp and it has the weight to penetrate deeply in the soil....easily Chopping up those slythering garden pests.....with enough reach to stay safely away from the pests.

This hoe is well made, sharp, but totally useless for what it is made for! Let me first say, I farmed for most of my life and growing up we hand hoed 25 acres of cotton and corn. So, I know what a hoe is suppose to be made like. The grind angle and head angle on this hoe is wrong! In a standing position the back of the hoe contacts the ground instead of the edge of the hoe, resulting in the hoe skipping across the ground instead of engaging the soil! In hard packed ground you have to lean the hoe handle down to about 2 feet from the ground to get the edge to engage the ground, else it will just skip across without even digging! I wanted to like this hoe, but after using it for about 30 min, I just could not get it to perform! The head also "wonders" because of the curve in the blade, so close grass cutting is difficult without cutting down your plants!

The long handle means you don't have to stoop, and the blade is heavy. I've used it to chop blackberry vines from fencelines and to cultivatearound grape vines and fruit trees. When dealing with stringy vegetation it does tend to get caught on the back stroke and have to be pulledloose. If I were to ask that anything be changed I'd ask that the back of the blade be angled to the handle so that there is less place for thevines and grass and stuff to catch and make pulling it back easier.

Full disclosure. I used this implement for about half an hour. It arrived early afternoon, it made ridiculously fast work of the few tenacious weeds in the yard with thumb thick woody stems and roots. The edge is both chisel ground with a convexed edge. The tool has the satisfying heft of being thoughtfully overbuilt. It's assembled solidly with a continuous 1/4 inch tang inserted into an appropriately shaped and ferruled shovel haft. It can't be said enough how well built it is. To nitpick; the edge wanders just a but and just a little blunt at one end. It needs a little attention with a file and maybe a course stone. Much the same way one would work the edge on an axe. The handle feels lacquered so that will need some sandpaper and linseed oil but all things considered its going to shape up to be a hoe without equal.