New Patented and registered design product.

We like to call it the “ The 2 for 1 tool ” and because of it's unique design properties, it makes your gardening jobs “ Less effort, and more pleasure ”

Stainless steel Hand Fork designed for both single hand or 2 handed grip and usage.

After researching the market no other tool is designed for, or claims both uses in single and two handed garden hand tools.

This ergonomically designed handle provides more comfort and reduced effort and strain on wrists and for the user.

The main design concept is the tool “handle” which can be applied to many uses and applications, via fixed or even interchangeable tool heads.

An excellent example, and by far the greatest potential lies is the garden hand tool market as featured on this page.

Currently, gardeners have only 2 choices or categories of garden fork:-

A: Full size standard garden & building tools.

Too large and heavy for weeding out beds and borders, beause they are designed for use when standing up and general digging or turning over of the soil, rather than weeding out, which means you dig then bend down to pick out the weeds and repeat the process which is very tiring.

B: Small hand forks and trowels.

Too small and often uncomfortable when weeding, often causing sore or blistered palms of the hand and exccessive strain on the wrist, also many are found to be quite poor quality which may bend or break when used.

The Terra firma tool handle provides a solution as the first mid-sized garden fork or spade that services this mainstream market gap in garden tools

more information about good garden hand tool design here

The Terra raptor meets the increasing demand for "inclusive" tool designs for the female user, senior citizens, and some infirmity users, world wide. Despite the tool design being created to be an all inclusive or non discriminating it offers advantages to both disabled and able bodied gardeners alike.

This is achieved by its design which allows effortless change from one handed use to 2 handed use as the work requires, allowing one handed digging with a free hand to collect and pick up the weeds or changing over to the two handed grip when digging out small plants, shrubs and tough weeds. The spade tool will also be ideal for planting out small roses and shrubs in prepared beds and borders.

The garden fork application has been subjected to extensive usage and testing to arrive in its current form by professional gardeners.

It has proved that tasks such as weeding can be performed much faster and with less effort especially in very weedy borders and beds, naturally, a good kneeling pad is a good idea and makes a hard chore much easier.

The body of the ergonmic fork and spade handle has been designed to give greater comfort during use by spreading the work forces, such as digging out weeds, through the lower arm and allowing the upper body weight and muscle groups to be applied, combined with the hand grip which keeps the arm, wrist, and hand in the natural and comfortable position to reduce stress on joints. Young or old, stress on joints is not a pleasant experience when gardening.

During gardening the arm is cradled with minimal support by the adjustable snug fitting strap and the baton grip is fully adjustable for any user and can also be rotated to any preferred position. These adjustments to the fork and spade handle allow the user to tailor fit the tool for greater comfort, regardless of height or build.

This overall design will also meet the needs identified by many charities and studies of subsistence farmers in 3rd world countries which includes predominately women, who need suitably designed robust, durable, lightweight, medium sized fork and spade tools. more information about women subsistance farmers here Subsistance farmers by definition, only grow the food they need to eat, rather than take it to market to sell. Often very poor, they have limited means to buy the right tools and it is often generous "donars" who will fund and purchase through links with charities, the essential agricultural tools needed by subsistance farmers.

It is also a very effective tool for the many global users who require single handed agricultural tools due to medical conditions or injury, particularly in areas of military conflict. Globally there are thousands of victims of war with injuries caused by conflict and landmines, who have loss or wound damage to arms and legs but could still use a tool deisgned for one hand.

The “Pod” option on the back of the handle provides a placement for other products:

Examples are:
Pruning knives, secateurs , seeds & bulbs, trial market products from other companies such as fertilizers, weed killer, mini CD’s from magazines, insect repellent and sun cream, who knows ?

The list of items are only limited by our imagination.

The unique Terrafirma tool design and image, provides the core to build a range of tools and accessories which will become a new “very visual” brand.

Click on the images below of one of our early prototype models which lead to the development of the final tool,
to see larger pictures:

For more information please Contact Terrafirma Tools