Spear & Jackson 4854WP Deshierbador mecánico

Mucho más robusto que otros similares de otras marcas.

Muy robusta

Es útil y cómoda de usar en plantas que tengan una sola raíz principal, pero es conveniente tener tierra al lado para ir rellenando los huecos que deja (inevitables). No sirve con hierbas que tienen las raíces múltiples o apelmazadas, como la grama.

Me ha encantado los quita de raiz

Saca las malas hierbas de raiz sin ningun esfurzoMuy recomendable

ME HA GUSTADO TODO

Fácil de usar. Poco peso.

Ha durado 2 días, se ha partido

I am very happy with this product. I have read in other reviews how the prongs broke easily..I realised straight up that although this tool looks unbreakable I find that I only use it into moist or wet ground. Under these conditions the tool is so easy to use and is extremely effective. It is amazing how easily I can just twist it and it efficiently removes the weed without me having to bend over at all. I am 67 yes old so this is such an amazing help for me. Used sensibly I can't fault it!

My mother loves it she getting older and she likes to putter in the yard and this is easy for her to use even with bad joints an feet. I was impressed with it using in my yard nice so you don't have to bend over

Solide et efficace aucun regret d'achat

Top Unkrautstecher - funktioniert sehr gut und ohne große Kraftanstrengung.Sehr gute hochwertige und solide Verarbeitung.Einfach den Unkrautstecher an der Stelle, wo sich das Unkraut befindet in den Boden stechen, dafür hat man eine stabile Fußraste. Fußraste treten, Stiehl nach hinten ziehen und Unkraut heraushebeln - fertig - wirklich Top.Was man dabei haben sollte ist etwas Erde, um die kleinen Löcher wieder etwas aufzufüllen. So einfach habe ich bis jetzt noch kein Unkraut entfernt - macht mit dem Gerät sogar richtig Spaß, da man so nicht auf den Knien herumrutschen muss und auch keine Rückenschmerzen bekommt. Durch den langen Stiehl hat man auch richtig Hebelkraft und entfernt so auch stark verwurzeltes Unkraut mühelos.Fazit:Ich kann den Kauf nur empfehlenEinfache und Rücken schonende Unkrautentfernung. Gute solide Verarbeitung. Geringes Gewicht, trotz stabiler und hochwertiger Materialien.Preis-Leistungsverhältnis passt auch - Top Preis im Vergleich zu ähnlichen Produkten.Von mir gibt's 5⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐Sterne und klare Kaufempfehlung.Ich hoffe meine Rezension war für Sie hilfreich.

I was interested in these devices as my lawn has it's fair share of thistles, dandelions and plantains. Having ploughed through the Fiskars, Spear and Jackson and Tacklife devices reviews here on Amazon, there were two common themes of criticism, 1. Being they seemed to break; 2. being they left holes in the lawn.I decided upon the S&J as the other 2 were weighing in at £8 to £12 more and the Tacklife was going to have to come from China so had a delivery time of up to a month. Ordinarily I would have chosen the Tacklife if the delivery was good and the price point was the same because I have to admit a certain admiration for their products having bought my daughter a cordless drill from them that out performed my Makita. I digress;So the decision was the S&J purely as I've never used one of these things before and although £28 ain't to be sneezed at to spend your money on a lemon I did want to at least cross them out of my book before going back to a screwdriver on my hands and knees.Before we go into a review I'm going to try to explain the photos because I don't know what order you'll see them in when the review uploads.There's a photo of my 'victims' all lined up, thistle, dandelion and several plantains. Sadly the dandys and thistle were the first to fall a few days ago before I had the idea of posting a review. I had to ferret in the garden waste bin to bring them out.2 more photo's of the holes left in the lawn. The larger hole is from the thistle, the smaller from a plantain just taken out. 2 photo's of the device's head and bracket mechanism, another was a screw up as I wanted to show the impacted dirt on the tool, but instead it came out on the weed root. More about that later. 2 more photo's showing the head with the 'flappy bit' footrest in the open and closed position.So, OK Let's start.The product appears to be well made with good quality materials. It appears there are three materials, Plastic, Steel and what appears to be an Aluminium alloy or or maybe just ally. The shaft seems to be of hollow oval steel construction powder coated. The 'pointy bits' of the oval are in the plane of the direction of force you'll be pulling. Good engineering practice. Think of an egg, try pushing as hard as you can from point to point in your palms and those of you who've never watched Magpie or How? will be surprised at the strength it'll take in compression. Squash it from the side, game over, so don't waggle the shaft sideways once it's in the ground or it will fold up faster than an origami master and you'll only have yourself to blame.Moving down, the shaft into the business end, the material changes to a plastic moulding, which to my old eyes seems to be a HDPE type of material. I might be wrong, but it's pretty hard anyways. Hard plastics generally tend to be more brittle but make for excellent precise mouldings and are quite tough. The 2 photo's show the plastic gubbins which unite the steel shaft and the ally? casting. Nice engineering principles again, insulating dissimilar metals and reducing the effect of galvanic corrosion. Note the hinged 'foot plate' not quite sure I understand this, but I guess it's for reducing the stowing of the device. Anyway, it feels quality when you snap it up into position and the thumb mechanism underneath releases it into stowaway mode.The aluminium alloy casting along with the unfolded plastic bit becomes the main point of entry to the unwanted plant. It's this that you push on with your foot to get to the root.OK, so in another photo you'll see the last part of the device - the gripping mechanism itself. It's made of steel. Kind of like a a pair of pliers..with attitude. Length is around 75mm (3" in old money). There are 2 'fingers' both made out of 3mm (don't ask in imperial please) thick steel which press against an anvil sort of thing with a profile of an apple corer also steel but thickness seems about 1.5-2mm, nevertheless still sturdy.Now the bit (if anyone's read this far or is still awake) you've been waiting for. Ultimately the idea is you drive the 'corer' over the root by looking down the barrel of the shaft, and pressing with your foot down on the plate then draw the shaft towards you. The footplate acts as a fulcrum, while the drawing action grips the plate.OK so a lot of people with the reviews I've seen seem to have trouble with this, I've seen comments like 'only used this once or twice and it's broke', or missed the weed and took out a hole in the lawn itself. Not just on this product but on all I've read. I'm going to have to say it's worked good for me.If you go about any of these devices in the way they're meant to be used I reckon they'd all be OK.I've got fairly clayey soil but it's working on these weeds. Simply, you have to be gentle. Aim the device over the weed - make sure you got the 'apple corer' over what you think is the root. It's not the device's fault if you get this wrong, it's not a "Magic Weed AWAY-O-Ray", it's a simple mechanical device. If you can't get the prongs in because of stones, dig the stones out or just dig the weed out. Don't get frustrated and try to stamp it into intransigent material with force, there will only be one winner. It may take a bit of practise or it may take none at all. But the method is simplicity. If you miss, there's a hole in your lawn but you get it next time. There'll still be a hole but this time you have it. When you grab the weed, don't jerk with impatience - again only one winner. Pull it back toward you like an Aikido master - that is, take all the time in the world. Like pulling - no drawing - a pint, or leaning on a bar - nice and easy.And - I've had 100% success with this tool, I like it loads. It's a sturdy as I want. But, you want to tread on it, push on it with your toes, into the soil, not stamp. Pull it back gently and if you miss, try it again.My soil is clayey but not extra so. I'll explain the photo with the plantain root now. You will clearly see the soil compacted in the 'apple corer' shape. Now I'm kind of saying that this usually sticks to the tool not the root. After 5 or 6 pulls it's compacted onto the 'anvil' so much that the tool becomes ineffective. Again, folks say this on some reviews but that's physics and nature. I found that a little finger, or a knife from the cutlery drawer (let's face it what use are blunt knives anyway except to look civilised while you're eating your dinner) clears it .Now holes in the lawn. Photo's show what looks like a big hole. Yeah, those patches are about 100mm across for the thistle, 2" for the plantain. This is due to the dead grass due to the spread of the leaves. The actual size of the intrusive hole from this kit is about 25 - 35mm (1" to1-1/4"). As I said earlier, it's a mechanical device. So bring a handy bag of compost with you to fill the holes. You are taking out a core at the end of the day, and some collateral. As long as you understand this you're fine.Summing up - glad I bought this. Materials are designed to withstand normal use - (I don't mean treating it with kid gloves). I can imagine it would fail if stomped on and jerked about much as anything that is abused outside it's design limits may fail. But the tool does the job and is sturdy enough.4 stars for sturdiness - purely because you can't design for all kinds of folks, for - that it would have to be a JCB and even then it would be marked down for no air conditioning in the cab or the wrong kind of yellow paint, and I'm going to say 4 stars also for weight because some older folks may get tired with carrying it around. For me - 5 stars all around, I'm happy so far.Last thing - the thistles and dandelions were pulled up on the day I recieved it, when we'd had no rain for months and the soil was dried out. When I wrote this review we had the rains, and I pulled the plantains up with aplomb. In either case the tool - for me worked well. I'll keep you informed, but so far very happy with it.