29th September 2012, 01:35 PM
Quote:Actually better than that - 100%!! The krafser comes with a large metal tray (krafser brett) into which the spoil accumulates as you hoe ( a bit like the grass catcher on a lawn mower). The brett has two handles either side you pick up and tip straight into barrow or onto spoil heap. I reckon an average barrow holds roughly 6 heaped 'brett' ful.....so no shovelling involved at all.
I think Kevin's making this all up.
Next he'll be telling us it has eighteen gears, a foghorn and a USB plug which hooks it up to GIS.
I looked this up -a bucket seems like a far better deal to me. Surely If you're dealing with very wet soil the krafser brett would just put muck down your trousers.
I should add I've never used a krafser before . . .
http://www.nhm.uio.no/fakta/zoologi/forh...-masse.jpg