Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-26322120-20160904213915/@comment-25841881-20160907032703

No.. It would be somewhere from 3 to 6 times as effective as a pencil, and easier to use. You don't have to bend down as much, and it has multiple pencil-size tines to hoe with. Like using 4 pencils taped together.. A garden rake - not leaf rake - would be a better tool to hoe, like a mega pitchfork with one side, and a nice 0-shape with the other side; nice and broad like a hoe.