“Dumas, home of the Rogue Hoe!”
Best online price that I’ve been to find is at Ben Meadows, and they have very good promo codes available for shipping and discounts.
http://www.benmeadows.com/search/rogue%2Bhoe/
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You might check out the hoes at Lee Valley:
http://www.leevalley.com/us/Garden/p…?cat=2&p=44823
Those Rogue hoes look very nice…heavy duty and sharp.
Found this one at Lee Valley. Appears to be similar to the Rogue Hoe. http://www.leevalley.com/en/garden/page.aspx?p=10425&cat=2,44823,10425
AND if they dress them up a bit and have different scents… :winkgrin:
Lots of funny comments! Have admit I wasn’t sure if this post was a social commentary or garden question about argumentative tools!
Never used any Rogue brand tools, but they look very well made. My question is weight. How “solid” are they to heft in use for an hour or more? I have some tools like that, too tiring to use them for more than a few minutes. Not a weakling, but the design is overly heavy to make them solid.
The only hoe I now use is in the “scuffle hoe” catagory. Scuffle designs run hoes under soil to open dirt and cut roots without much need of muscle. My favorite is at Home depot, called an Action Hoe. Design is a band of metal shaped like an open western stirrup. The metal cuts into dirt well both pulling and pushing. Edge under dirt surface cuts weed roots, loosens soil. I find it very effective, even when my clay dirt gets hard. It has a longer handle so you are not bent over using it and is pretty light weight for long work sessions. Price is reasonable at about $18. Mine is about 9 to 10 years old, still pretty sharp with moderate use each summer. I actually like using it and I dislike hoeing!
Good luck finding the perfect hoe. I am a tool junkie, have many tools I got and then did not like. No fun working with poor or badly designed tools.
You hoe aficionados are cracking me up. I’m envisioning a whole line of hoe dolls. First up - the action hoe, next the rogue hoe, followed by the Barbie hoe. :lol:
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Have always called it my stirrup hoe and it’s my very favorite hoe of all time.
So anyone have a good source for a good weed hook?
My hubby broke ours and Dad won’t let him live it down. Nevermind that it had been sharpened by him for 40 years…but hubby broke it!
I’m not sure if it is in the weed hook category, but I have a cobra weeder on a short handle that I think is pretty effective.
Didn’t know what a weed hook was, so had to google it.
LOTS of sources for weed hooks:
We received an alert that this thread might be a better fit in Around the Farm, and I, too, have to admit to an initial reaction of, “Seriously? Who started this topic?” :lol:
But yes, I did move it over here for further input!
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Just wanted to let y’all know I ordered a 54" ash handled Rogue field hoe from Ben Meadows. Got free shipping with a promo code, but there is an additional shipping charge of $10. Will let you know if its as wonderful as I think it should be. If it’s too much for me, I’ll give it to our farmer.
So now we know we can get a rogue hoe in Dumas.
I laugh like a high school kid every time this thread cycles back to the top.
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I love my Rogue garden tools. I have a 6 inch field/ cotton hoe and a smaller scuffle hoe. Both are solidly built from heavy steel and I haven’t had any problems with the blades bending like the crap big box store brands. I’m confident they will outlast me. I keep both sharpened and they work great on my mixed bag of weeds and brambles. The field hoe is not lightweight which can be a workout but I personally would rather wear myself out hitting different weeds v hitting the same one over and over. Only one drawback- my husband likes the field hoe so much he has taken to carrying it around with him so I can never find the thing when I need it. Buy one, you won’t regret it.
