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35 Comments
This was my Christmas present from my wife last year, works great
This gives me a great idea and weld my own!
Also steel is the way to go, it just slices waaaaay easier in heavier soils. I use to use a wooden handles post hole digger and it was alright but then when I switched to all steel handles the holes were way easier
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00:38 What’s this video about? Treadlite Broadfork?
1:53 Treadlite Broadfork Models and options
3:07 Wood Vs Steel handles
4:26 Assembling Steel Handles
6:08 Assembling Wood Handles
7:50 Special features of treadlite broadfork
8:40 My favorite features of the Treadlite broadfork
9:49 Why I now use a 24” broadfork for 30” bed
11:55 How to Broadfork? Proper broad forking technique
12:27 How to balance yourself on the broadfork
13:31 My only negative comment
14:30 The digging power of the Treadlite broadfork
15:40 Wood Vs Steel handles practical recommendation
16:58 Outro and final thoughts
That's look like a lot of work to me
It seems like they paid you $180 for this video. It looks like a quality piece of steel. I'd think the steel handles are the way to go although the price difference doesn't seem to justify them. As much as I'd like to say it's easy to make, it probably isn't without quite a bit of labor. It seems like a good tool, but the price seems high to me.
Steven thanks for the review. it was the first time I have seen that model. Good review. 😎😎😎
Thanks for pointing out the detail about the 24 inch tines. I may go with that as I do my experiment garden this year. I guess no till or low till is going to be my biggest challenge just because I was raised working the ground. I will have to basically unlearn my old way and learn the new way because that is one of my biggest goals to go no till.
🌸Great demonstration. I will definitely be buying one.🌸
TFS
I'm really amazed by what you've done w your yard, achieving your farming lifestyle. Very inspiring! 🙂
I live in La Mesa , where do you get you cardboard and compost? Thank you for all your videos. Fabulous!
You seem to have an interesting definition of "No Till"
Are you sure about this is no-till?
Hi! I've always been confused about how broad forks fall into no-till. I understand they aerate… but isn't that quite a disturbance to the soil? Is the disturbance small enough for the fungi and bacteria to quickly recover? What are some reliable resources documenting this?
would be good to grease the ends of the metal handles, make them easier to remove, also some linseed oil of the wood before inserting would work well
I’m looking for that fabulous mulch that you were talking about I googled Ed’s compost but cannot find it in Ramona. If you could give me a heads up would greatly appreciate it.
It’s so awesome that you were local I have learned a lot from you thanks so much. Our weather is so different than everybody else’s Videos
great video, thanks!
Thanks for the review! Great video!
very good review
Mine just arrived today. Purchased because of this video. Small word of caution- their production time is a few weeks out when I ordered. Haven’t used yet but will update when I do. Thx Steven!!!
I'll come over and stand on the broadfork and you pull the handles..
Lol.I weigh 300 lbs. 😨
So, the wedge. Yea, you start it in the slit, install the handle until the point in which the wedge would touch the tube or nest as you called it. Few mallet wacks on the end of the handle and its seated and expanded at the same time forming a super tight fit.
Concur you’re tilling but if you must use save work and place handles in fork then with fork above tap ends on solid surface. Far less work and seats handles better.
Just a bit of a correction…The angle at the tips is not “steeper” or sharper it is LESS steep/sharp and therefore isn’t about increasing ease of soil penetration. I believe the reduced angle is for increased strength of the tips so they are less apt to bend or break. The remainder of the tine has a fairly minimal taper for ease of soil penetration.
Thanks for the nice review!
Thanks for the review. I'm looking at buying one of these soon.
Do you work for treadlite?
I also own a treadlight broadfork and first time using it one of the wooden handles broke under very little load. I cut off the broken part of the handle and reinstalled only to have it break again as well as the other handle also broke due to the short handle socket on the broadfork. I brought this to the owners attention and he refused to replace the handle and did not offer steel handles at the time and was not until after I had advised him as to what would improve his broadforks. I see he still has not improve the socket length but now offering the steel handles. Go figure!
I had to modify the handle sockets by extending the sockets much longer in order to avoid breaking the wooden handles again.
To this day treadlight has not offered to make it right with me over the weak handle that came with the broadfork and the fact of the poor socket design for wooden handles.
Why not a pitchfork?
the wedges are supposed to work the same way as when hanging an axe head. You leave them full length and pound the handles into the holes with the wedge sticking out the end. As the handles seat all the way down the wedge is pushed further into the slot and the wood is expanded inside the hole and wedged into place so it can't pull out. It works essentially the same way as peening a rivet to mushroom the end so it won't pull back through a piece of sheet metal.
Was really disappointed with the wood handles. Both shims broke and the screw was near impossible to get in without stripping. Once in, with quite a bit of diy rigging, the handles were squeaky as all get out (they are even squeaky in your video). Eventually one of them broke. For this price, I feel like they could've come up with a better solution for attaching the handles.
I got the 'plow'from this company, very pleased
Don't bother with this Treadlite company.
I ordered one in October 2021. I waited over A QUARTER OF A YEAR for this thing! They kept pushing it back just a couple of weeks, a couple more weeks, a couple more weeks, you get the point. I was never warned it would take so long to ship or even warned that they were on back order. I gave up waiting and got my money refunded. Order in march and you might have it by Christmas! Ridiculous.
Where is the U.K. shop?
The wood handle feels better on the hand and is more forgiving to temperature changes and vibration.
I used this.. and it worked great.. with my bad back. One can loosen the soil as much as you like.. Or basically till it from different angles. I had some areas of sod and sand that was compacted.. and loosened it only.. to get the grass to grow.. it filled in perfectly.. Tilling the soil with a tiller kills a lot of life forms.. This is less labor intensive than any other tool I have used. For small areas.. I just use a pitchfork.