Blade hoe small

Note: Description at the bottom on how to assemble the handle!

Blade hoes are widely used abroad instead of shovels. In Sweden, blade hoes have been almost impossible to find. These high-quality Portuguese hoes are excellent tool companions and can be sharpened as sharp as axes. With a fairly blunt edge angle, they can be used with force straight into roots, stumps, etc., so the chips fly! This small blade hoe becomes more like a vertical axe as it has a nice weight to it. At least when it is completely sharp.

The small blade hoe is the best tool for clearing brush, sapplings and small stumps, it is incredibly powerful and always has a good angle towards the ground when standing up. Like a vertical axe, simply put. Works well for clearing aspen brush, removing lilacs with roots, smaller hazelnut stumps and hazelnut bouquets that can be completely removed with the roots, smaller oak brush, etc. Both one and two-handed grip can be used. For brush clearing, it is best to cut the handle to 65-75 cm so the "strike" can go horizontally between your feet without hitting your groin (if you have one). Some preffer even shorter shafts, down to 40cm - especially if you work a lot with one hand. Feel free to carve or grind out a knob the top and give the shaft a bit oval shape for better grip when hands and handle are slippery!

The blade hoe can be used to turn the soil in the garden, chop away brush below ground level, or work with when leveling mixed terrain with roots, stones, soil, etc. A versatile tool!

It is also small enough to be carried in a backpack if the handle is shortened to about 50 cm. Perfect tool for building an MTB trail or downhill track for mountain biking, for example.

Incredibly sturdy, the blade itself is about 5 mm thick. The blade is 9.5 cm wide at the edge and 19 cm from the edge to the shaft attachment. Not curved in any direction.

Note: No matter how well you attach the handle, if you use the hoes enough and hard enough, you will need to buy a new handle after extended use.

Main course of handle breakage: 
You can pry lightly with the hoes but the handles cannot withstand prying up stones or stumps/roots with full force. 

Handles are bought separately.

Video about assembling hoe and shaft
Lubricate the lower conical part of the handle with a little machine grease (or butter). Attach the hoe to the handle. On the opposite side of the hoe itself, at the eye (the hole), there is a square of solid metal that protrudes. Use this square as a counter support against a larger stable object such as sturdy anvil. Now, strike the handle forcefully into the hoe with the back of a large axe or a sledgehammer. The better support you have, the more you can knock in the handle. If more than 1 cm of the handle protrudes after being hammered in, saw it off so it protrudes a maximum of 0.5 cm. Then hammer in the wedge. Done!