Sneeboer Lawn Aerator

The lawn aerator punctures matted lawns with its sturdy hollow tines and thus causes a better supply of water and oxygen to the roots. Also strong compaction, which often result in moss formation and waterlogging due to non-percolating water, you can effectively get to grips with the device. (The fact that the lawn initially gives the impression of a "green hole board" due to the ejection of the soil should not irritate you. After 2-3 weeks at the latest you will see the desired success). The head of the tool is forged from stainless steel, and the tines are tapered to prevent clogging with soil. They produce holes about one centimeter in diameter.

For more than 100 years, the family of the West Frisian blacksmith Jaap Sneeboer has been supplying their Dutch fellow citizens, known to be incessantly engaged in farming, dyking and horticulture, with the tools they need to do so. At Sneeboer, they use two different types of stainless steel for their traditional Frisian horticultural tools: a tougher one (with higher degrees of alloying) for the springs and grommets holding the handle and low-alloy steel that responds better to forging for the functional parts in the narrow sense. They weld the individual construction elements together, then ground and polish them by hand.

It has long become common practice to stamp and roll garden tools. However, we hardly need to describe the difference; we want to point out that forging is the only way to deal with a tool in all its details and strengthen the material in those parts where this is necessary for functional reasons.