http://www.grampasweeder.com/

I used a neighbors in Eastern WA in the mid 90s & was never able to find it anywhere there. I even searched Western WA & ID & couldn't find it.

She didn't remember where it was bought & didn't even know the name of the tool. Since I wasn't able to find it after searching for many months high & low, she let me borrow it whenever I needed it.

Then we moved to AR & I didn't need a weeding tool. Somehow the ground was inhospitable to the likes of dandelions, spurge, black medic & so on.

When we moved to UT I tried the Weed Hound on our lawn but it didn't work on all weeds like Grampa's Weeding Tool did, so I took it back to Lowe's. The gal who refunded my money said she'd seen quite a few being returned.

Anyhow, I haven't needed the elusive tool until recently when I threw up my hands in disgust at trying to get every type of whole weed with the "snake tongue" hand weeder.

So I went on-line today, something I didn't have until late in Eastern WA & then didn't know what to search for & really didn't want to order over the internet or phone if I even would have looked & found it.

I found it, on QVC on sale, cheaper than what I found on 6+ pages of search results!!! They had it in stock & I should get it around 15 May, so I'm happy.

But I also wonder if I could have bought it locally & saved on shipping. =\ Though I haven't seen it at the couple of nurseries, Ace Hardware stores, Lowe's, Home Depot & Wal-Mart stores I've visited, & even a farm/feed store.

Based on the way this works, the same would hold true for this tool. The problem is that when the soil is dry, the root breaks off at the lowest point where the tool grabs it, rather than pulling cleanly out of the ground.

Use it after a rain, or after the lawn has been watered, and I think you'll be very happy with it.

I was going to give in & just repurchase the Weed Hound & deal with what it couldn't get by using the "snake tongue" hand tool, but I couldn't find it anymore. I was in Wal*Mart & Lowe's looking for a thatching rake & neither store had either tool. I was just at Home Depot a couple weeks ago so I think I even looked there.

That's when I started a web search for "Weed Hound" & "Grampa's Weeder" was one of the results. I had a look & practically jumped for joy when I got it for $18.73 + $5.47 shipping.

I can't remember exactly, but I think I paid around $25 + tax for the Weed Hound when purchased the first time at Lowe's. So it pretty much all comes out the same & they both use the same concept. Either way I probably come out a winner.