Do-it-yourself miracle shovel: drawings and dimensions

What are the features

It has become a real gift to all diggers and plowmen. After all, any summer 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. The 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 the 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 the heavy shovel, but also the earth on it. Of course, this kind of work hurts your back. The shovel “Vyatka plowman” allows you to work without stress. This is its main advantage, which is why it is called the “shovel for the lazy”, although it would be more accurate to say for the weak, because any pensioner with it can become a digger.

It is not symmetrical, you can work with it with only one foot – the left one, but this is not a problem, you can make a tool for 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: the earth does not need to be raised, it turns over evenly as a result of the rotary movement of the hands.

With such a shovel, you can increase labor productivity 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 press the bucket (cloth) of the shovel into the ground and turn over the layer of earth, 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 which the blade of the shovel enters the soil under the weight of the leg. On light soil, you can work with one hand. The spine performs only a rotational movement, without the use of force, with the help of a lever, work is done to cut off, take out and turn over the earth layer.

You can plant potatoes with this “magic digger” like with a plow. It is necessary to dig one furrow (stepping back), lay potatoes in it, and when digging a second furrow, an even and accurate burying occurs. Moreover, fertilizer can be placed in the second furrow and buried, passing the next furrow. With a bucket width of 30 cm, you will 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 high labor productivity and no load on the spine when digging a garden. With it, a digger can dig a trench, and a summer resident can easily and quickly dig a garden. This miracle digger can cope with digging 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 by hand. Drawings are posted on the Internet, they were made by a resident of the Dnepropetrovsk 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 (preferably 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 located at chest level so that you do not have to raise or lower your arms. Although today you can buy a ready-made kopalochka for any leg to choose from. It is in demand, which means that manufacturing can be entrusted to professionals, and you don’t have to understand the drawings!

Disadvantages

The miracle shovel of an Orthodox monk is an excellent tool that really facilitates the work of summer residents and diggers. But it is not suitable for any soil, on clay lands and on black soil, the inverted layer must be immediately broken, otherwise it will dry to a stone state, then it will be difficult to work with it. They say that it is suitable for re-digging the site, but digging virgin soil is very disturbed by weed roots. It rotates the cut layer of earth by a maximum of 180 degrees, and when digging up a plot with grass or after cereals, the earth must be completely turned over so that the roots are at the top.

They tried to dig up 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 at the top.

It would be nice to have various modifications of shovels and other tools on the farm that make the life of a gardener-digger easier. As a ripper, it is great to use the Tornado manual cultivator. Some craftsmen adapt the auger for loosening the earth, and a shovel with an auger has become indispensable for manual snow removal. “Tornado” also facilitates physical labor in the cultivation of the land. Its telescopic handle is adjusted so that the person does not bend his back, and a straight back gets tired less. “Tornado” is a great helper when removing weeds.

It is placed above the bush, then pressed into the ground, turned and pulled out, the teeth scroll around the plant and snatch it from the soil along with the root. “Tornado” flight, loosens, removes garbage from the garden. What else he can do is dig holes for planting, remove large weeds – all the things for which, without the Tornado cultivator, he would have to bend over or squat. “Tornado” can even be adapted for transplanting strawberries, its teeth may well capture the bush, turn it out of the ground without damaging the roots. A person is always trying to improve his tools, the Tornado 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 application this device has in practice. This video will dispel all doubts about whether it is worth switching to this type of shovel.