The Fokin flat cutter is a multifunctional agricultural tool that can be used to perform a large amount of various agricultural work. It is a wooden shaft with a curved flat metal tip.
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Tool benefits and uses
The flat cutter is used to perform a large range of agricultural works. It makes it easy to:
- equip the beds;
- level the topsoil;
- loosen the soil and weed plants;
- to process heavy loamy solid soils;
- huddle plants;
- slit the soil (cut deep grooves);
- break hard lumps of earth;
- prune plants;
- cut off excess shoots.
If necessary, such a tool can be used to remove excess vegetation from the garden or in the garden without experiencing great physical exertion.
Varieties of Fokin flat cutters
Manufacturers offer 6 different options for flat cutters:
- Large. This inventory is designed to form beds before planting seedlings. With its help, you can quickly loosen the soil, huddle plants and weed weeds, even near the fence and other hard-to-reach areas.
- Small. With this tool, you can quickly process beds on loose soils. It is convenient for them to weed radishes, onions and other crops growing in the beds.
- Strong guy. By means of such a tool, it is easy to process loam and virgin soil. It has a short working element with a wide blade that fits easily even into dry ground.
- The mighty man. It has a wide, sharp blade, which is designed for processing tomatoes, peppers and other tall plantings.
- Large Canvas. This tool is equipped with a long and thin sharpened working element that allows you to quickly weed large areas of the garden.
- Small Cloth. Its blade is 2 times narrower than that of the Big Strip. It is convenient for them to weed narrow areas of land between the rows of densely planted plants.
Do I need to sharpen Fokin's flat cutters
Not all agricultural work requires a sharpened tool. Weeds and grasses that have not yet fully rooted can be easily removed with a slightly dull blade. It will firmly cling to the roots of plants and pull them out even from dry soil.
But for other agricultural work, this tool must be sharp enough. To do this, you need to check the main cutting part by gently feeling the blade with your finger.
Flat cutters cannot be sharpened in the standard way, like scythes, hoes, hoes, shovels and other garden inventory, because their blade is sharpened at a different angle, making the tool as efficient as possible for work.
Therefore, the developer chose the most optimal sharpening angle of the plane cutter, which ranges from 40 ° to 45˚. If sharpening is done at a higher or lower angle, the tool will blunt much faster.
Sharpening should begin with a careful inspection of the blade. Because during work, it is turned towards the ground, you only need to sharpen it. On the reverse side, you only need to remove the burrs using a sharpening bar, file or file.
When sharpening a flat cutter on an electric grinder, do not press hard on the tool so as not to heat the blade, which reduces the strength and wear-resistant characteristics of the metal.
After carrying out all agricultural work (at the end of autumn), it is necessary to treat the entire metal part of the tool with a special anti-corrosion agent that will prevent the appearance of rust on it.
How to recognize a fake
Copies of Fokin's flat cutters, made from low-quality materials, began to appear in markets and garden stores. The handle of such tools is made of inexpensive wood, and the working tip is made of low-grade metal.
The handle of Fokin flat cutters is not coated with paint or varnish, and the blade is always black. The tip is made of strong hardened steel and has a sharp, springy blade. Also, between the fasteners for the bolts, with which the working element is screwed to the shaft, the letter "F" is engraved or there is a sticker with the manufacturer's inscription.
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