How to make a miracle shovel with your own hands

What are the features

She became a real gift to all diggers and plowmen. After all, any summer resident-gardener knows that the most difficult physical labor is associated with digging up the earth. For planting potatoes, we all pay with pain in the back, arms and legs. An Orthodox monk made his own version of the traditional bayonet shovel, he claims that it is a pleasure to dig with it, it even helps to plant potatoes.

In the process of digging a garden, you have to bend over each time, pressing the shovel into the ground with force, and then, straining all your muscles, lift not only a heavy shovel, but also the earth on it. Of course, my back hurts from such work. The shovel "Vyatsky Plowman" allows you to work without stress. This is its main advantage, therefore it is called a "shovel for the lazy", or more precisely, for the weak, because any pensioner with it can become a digger.

It is not symmetrical, you can work with it only with one foot - the left, but there is no problem with that, you can make a tool under the right foot. In the upper part, the inventor installed a bicycle handlebar, so that you can hold the shovel with both hands at chest level. The most important thing: there is no need to lift the ground, it turns over exactly as a result of the pivoting movement of the hands.

With such a shovel, labor productivity can be increased several times. It is successfully used for digging a garden and planting potatoes, but you can also dig a ditch.

Principle of operation

The job is to push the shovel's bucket (blade) into the ground and turn over the earth layer by turning the handles to the right. The earth in a neatly cut layer turns over and lies on the right. The back remains straight, there is no need to bend, a bayonet is stuck into the ground, thanks to this, the blade of the shovel enters the soil under the weight of the leg. On light soil, you can work with just your hands. The spine performs only a rotational movement, without the use of force, with the help of a lever, work is done to cut, take out and turn over the layer of earth.

It is possible to plant potatoes with this "magic digger" as with a plow. You need to dig one furrow (stepping back), put potatoes in it, and when digging the second furrow, an even and accurate burial occurs. Moreover, fertilizer can be placed in the second furrow and bury it, passing the next furrow. With a bucket width of 30 cm, you get a very even planting of potatoes, where there will be 60 cm between the bushes.

Video "All about the tool"

Advantages

The indisputable advantage of the "Vyatsky Plowman" is its high labor productivity and the absence of stress on the spine when digging a vegetable garden. With its help, an excavator can dig a trench, and a summer resident can easily and quickly dig up a vegetable garden. This miracle digger can handle when digging up virgin soil. It is especially good to use it in light sandy soil, then you don't even have to loosen it.

It is interesting that this miracle shovel can be made with his own hands. There are drawings on the Internet, made by a resident of the Dnipropetrovsk region to help everyone. It can be made almost from scrap metal.You will need such simple materials:

• stainless steel pipe;
• stainless steel shovel blade (better cold-rolled);
• pin;
• bicycle wheel.

With the help of these drawings, a do-it-yourself shovel for the lazy can be made taking into account the height of a person. The horizontal handle should be at chest level so you don't have to raise or lower your arms. Although today you can buy a ready-made digger for any leg to choose from. It is in demand, which means that the manufacture can be entrusted to professionals, and you will not have to understand the drawings!

Flaws

The miracle of an Orthodox monk's shovel is an excellent tool that really facilitates the work of summer residents and excavators. But it is not suitable for all soil, on clayey soils and on chernozem, the inverted layer must be broken immediately, otherwise it will dry out to a stone state, then it will be difficult to work with it. They say that it is good for re-digging a site, but weed roots are very hindered to dig virgin soil. It turns the cut layer of earth by a maximum of 180 degrees, and when a plot with grass is dug up or after cereals, the earth must be completely turned over so that the roots are at the top.

We tried to dig out potatoes with a shovel, but it is not as convenient as planting potatoes with it. She picks up the bush well, but the turn is not enough for all the potatoes to be on top.

It would be nice to have on the farm various modifications of shovels and other tools that make the life of a digger gardener easier. It is wonderful to use the Tornado hand cultivator as a ripper. Some craftsmen adapt the auger for loosening the earth, and the shovel with the auger has become indispensable for manual snow removal. "Tornado" also facilitates physical labor when cultivating the land. Its telescopic handle adjusts so that the person does not bow their back, and the straight back gets tired less. "Tornado" is a great helper in weed removal.

It is placed above the bush, then pressed into the ground, turned and pulled out, the teeth scroll around the plant and snatch it out of the soil along with the root. "Tornado" flight, loosens, removes garbage from the garden. What else he can do is dig holes for planting plants, remove large weeds - everything that would have to bend over or squat without the Tornado cultivator. "Tornado" can even be adapted for transplanting strawberries, its teeth may well grab a bush, turn it out of the ground without damaging the roots. Man always tries to improve his tools, the "Tornado" ripper-cultivator and the miracle shovel are excellent examples of this.

Video "Miracle shovel according to the drawing of monk Gennady"

In the video you can see what practical application this device has. This video will be able to dispel all doubts about whether it is worth switching to this type of shovel.