Hot take: those "ergonomic" garden trowels with the bent handles are terrible

I spent last Tuesday in Detroit digging up 40 lavender plants for a client and that curved handle design blistered my palm something awful by hour two. Has anyone else actually used these things for real work or is this just some engineer who never dug a hole in their life?

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seth_nguyen3d ago

That "engineer who never dug a hole in their life" line hits hard because it's the same type of person who designed those "ergonomic" office chairs that give you a backache by lunch. I swear the whole trend of making tools "bent" or "angled" is just marketing guys who never actually use them for more than 10 minutes. My neighbor bought one of those curved trowels and returned it after trying to plant a single rose bush. The real problem is these companies think they can fix a design issue by adding a weird bend instead of just making the handle thicker or adding a better grip. It's like how those "comfort grip" kitchen scissors are always worse than the plain metal ones your grandma used for 40 years.

joel2803d ago

Ngl that "engineer who never dug a hole" line is perfect. It's like they designed those curved trowels in a lab with zero dirt under their fingernails.