Raised bed hand rake

It's the perfect combination. This hand rake combines the precision of a hand tool with the reach of an implement with a longer handle, allowing you to work in an upright position without straining your back - for example, to prepare raised beds for sowing or to loosen, aerate and smooth the soil in the bedding box. The tines are forged from manganese-boron steel and the ash wood handle sits comfortably in the hand. With the shaped knob at the end of the handle, it also allows a powerful grip if necessary. Our raised bed hand 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.