Hand rake

For example, to prepare a smaller bed area for direct seeding. Then this handy tool with the forged tines made of manganese-boron steel is the device of your choice. The hand rake crushes, loosens and aerates the soil, assists in leveling and also likes to prove its abilities in harder soils. Thus, its field of application is not limited to raised beds. In all this, the ash wood handle is very comfortable to hold. The rake is manufactured in a forge in Upper Franconia, which can look back on over 200 years of family tradition.

The Krumpholz family knows a thing or two about forging. Based in the Franconian Forest, their ancestors acquired their first own hammer mill - the Guttenberger Hammer - in 1799 and were already producing tools and other everyday objects from forged iron back then. Today, the company's fortunes are in the hands of the eighth generation. The garden tools that leave the production site, which is still in its old location but has long since been modernized and expanded, are tools of the highest quality: shaped to their intended use under the weight of the forging hammer, compacted and reinforced where necessary, fitted with sharpened edges or blades and equipped with high-quality ash wood handles. Free-form forging, as practiced at Krumpholz, requires special skill and a sense of proportion. The steel used, a Swedish steel with a chrome-molybdenum content, is tough, strong and easy to clean.