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# The Lazy Dog Tool Company Limited

Hand Tools for Farmers and Growers

## Sitemaps

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## Posts

- [Lazy Dogs](https://lazydogtools.co.uk/lazy-dogs/) - The Lazy Dog Frame and noses for removing invasive weeds.
- [Chisel Hoes](https://lazydogtools.co.uk/chisel-hoes/) - Lazy Dog hoe made from stainless steel and ideal for removing docs
- [Manx Weeding Hoe Range](https://lazydogtools.co.uk/manx-weeding-hoes/) - Weeding hoes hand made by the Lazy Dog Tool Company
- [Lazy Dog Hoes](https://lazydogtools.co.uk/lazy-dog-hoes/) - At the checkout, Please leave a mobile number and a safe place before attempting to check out with PayPal. At PayPal, log in (if you have an account) or click Pay by Debit or Credit Card. Thank you!
- [Spud Weedhook](https://lazydogtools.co.uk/spud-weedhook/) - At the checkout, Please leave a mobile number and a safe place before attempting to check out with PayPal. At PayPal, log in (if you have an account) or click Pay by Debit or Credit Card. Thank you!
- [](https://lazydogtools.co.uk/ordering-advice/) - For large orders, orders to Highlands and Islands, and outside the UK please discuss with Nelly or Philip Trevelyan on 01751 417 351. We can post up to four of our larger tools (Lazy Dogs, hoes, rakes...) for £25.80 inc. VAT. We will REFUND ANY EXCESS SHIPPING CALCULATED BY OUR SHOP.
- [Lazy Dog Trowels](https://lazydogtools.co.uk/lazy-dog-trowels/) - At the checkout, Please leave a mobile number and a safe place before attempting to check out with PayPal. At PayPal, log in (if you have an account) or click Pay by Debit or Credit Card. Thank you!
- [Lazy Dog Tool Catalogue](https://lazydogtools.co.uk/lazy-dog-tool-catalogue/) - The Lazy Dog Tool Company Catalogue Our current pricelist
- [Ragwort](https://lazydogtools.co.uk/ragwort/) - The Control of Ragwort This plant appears to have alternating seasons of rampant or less rampant growth, and it is currently spreading in the UK (2004). Most stockmen understand that ragwort is very bad or fatal for animals when eaten dried, but do not realise that it is also poisonous when nibbled as a rosette
- [Docks](https://lazydogtools.co.uk/docks/) - The Control of Docks The following notes derive from our own field scale studies, demonstrations & contracts. While we offer advice, we are also aware of the almost infinite variability of sites, weather, and management conditions. Some examples of tasks, which can be suitable for handwork gangs Docks (or Scotch thistle) in new seeds that
- [Creeping Thistle](https://lazydogtools.co.uk/creeping-thistle/) - The Control of Creeping Thistle (Cirsium arvense) The species has fewer spines on the margins of the first leaves than the other thistles. One of the worst weeds, it occurs abundantly in grassland, arable and waste land throughout the British Isles spreads by far-creeping roots which can really regenerate new plants from small pieces, and
- [Scotch/Spear Thistle](https://lazydogtools.co.uk/scotchspear-thistle/) - The Control of Scotch/Spear Thistle (Cirsium vulgare) This biannual can infest new seeds, pastures, crop margins and fencelines. Some fields retain a large seed-bank, and surprising proportions of land can be covered by the plant after reseeding. We once calculated that nearly a third of a 6.5 acre pasture was covered in rosettes. After a
- [Bracken](https://lazydogtools.co.uk/bracken/) - The Control of Bracken Bracken is now a menace, because over the last century it has hugely increased its coverage of heather and pasture, and because it continues its increase exponentially. A hundred years ago, many villagers were pig owners or small scale stockmen, who cut bracken for animal bedding, and for whom access to

## Pages

- [](https://lazydogtools.co.uk/) - MAKERS OF PRIZE WINNING HAND-TOOLS Hand-built in our farm workshop Ideal for controlling invasive weeds in new seeds or wild flower meadows SPECIALISTS IN CHEMICAL-FREE WEED CONTROL CONTROL INVASIVE WEEDS Ragwort, Spear Thistle, Docks, Creeping Thistle, Burdock, Hemlock, Hogweed
- [Mail Order Form](https://lazydogtools.co.uk/mail-order-form/) - Please click here and then print mail-order form
- [Publications](https://lazydogtools.co.uk/publications/) - Conservation Land Management Today Winter 2004 Volume 2, number 4 Organic Farming Winter 2004/05 Issue 84 A New Approach to Weeding The Root of the Problem
- [Lazy Dog Tool Catalogue](https://lazydogtools.co.uk/lazy-dog-tool-catalogue/)
- [Contact](https://lazydogtools.co.uk/contact-form/) - The Lazy Dog Tool Company Workshop Hill Top Farm Spaunton Bank Appleton le Moors North Yorkshire YO62 6TS tel: 01751 417 799 - Ask for Philip Trevelyan enquiries@lazydogtools.co.uk After hours Sycamore Cottage Headland Road Appleton Le Moors North Yorkshire YO62 6TE tel/fax: 01751 417 351
- [Terms & Conditions](https://lazydogtools.co.uk/terms-conditions/) - The Lazy Dog Tool Company Sycamore Cottage Headland Road Appleton Le Moors North Yorkshire YO62 6TE Tel/Fax: 01751 417 351 - Ask for Nelly or Philip Trevelyan Workshop: 01751 417 799 enquiries@lazydogtoolco.co.uk For large orders and orders outside the UK call Nelly or Philip Trevelyan on 01751 417 351 or use our contact form Workshop: 01751 417
- [Checkout](https://lazydogtools.co.uk/cart/) - Please leave your mobile phone number and safe place on this form before you checkout with PayPal.
- [Case Studies and Reports](https://lazydogtools.co.uk/case-studies-reports-2000-2005/)
- [Thank you](https://lazydogtools.co.uk/thank-you/) - Thank you for shopping with the Lazy Dog Tool Company. You will receive an email confirming your order, which will be dispatched shortly.
- [The Manx Weeding Hoe Range](https://lazydogtools.co.uk/special-news-for-all-growers-the-manx-hoe-range/) - See Manx Hoes and other tools in our online shop Video of Manx Hoe in use The Lazy Dog Tool Company are making a series of tools that offer a new way of keeping plants free of weeds. Unlike most hoes, the Manx tools do not use a cutting edge or sharp corner in their looped
- [Gallery ~ Alex Maddrell's Garden](https://lazydogtools.co.uk/gallery-alex-madrells-garden/)
- [Gallery ~ The Lazy Dog Tool Company Workshop](https://lazydogtools.co.uk/gallery-the-lazy-dog-tool-company-workshop/)
- [Recognition](https://lazydogtools.co.uk/recognition/) - The advantages of Lazy Dog tool methods are now recognized by The National Trust, Natural England, DEFRA, The Soil Association, HDRA, The Countryside Management Association and The British Horse Society. Wildlife trusts, and at least 50 district councils, are now using the tools. The Lazy Dog Tool Company's workshop has been filmed by the BBC, Gardener's
- [Research Report to Defra](https://lazydogtools.co.uk/research-report-defra/) - RIP Weeding – The use of new ergonomically designed hand tools for field scale weeding. Many categories of land management now restrict or forbid the use of chemicals for the control of plants listed in the 1959 Weeds Act because of environmental and health concerns over pesticide use. These categories include Countryside Stewardship schemes, organic
- [Removing Thistles with a Chisel Hoe](https://lazydogtools.co.uk/removing-thistles-chisel-hoe/) - 1. Take hold of both handles, with your weaker hand forward.2. Your aim is to cut off the stalk just below the point of growth, which will prevent it growing again from that point. A chisel hoe in actionPhilip Trevelyan removing small thistles at Hill Top Farm, Spaunton. Adopt a cranking motion of the arms (instead
- [Gallery ~ The Manx Hoe Range in Action](https://lazydogtools.co.uk/image-galleries/)
- [Aims](https://lazydogtools.co.uk/aims-and-history/) - The company was formed in 1997 by Philip Trevelyan to share the hand-tool designs and weed-control techniques developed at his organic farm at Spaunton on the North Yorkshire Moors. At the heart of the company's approach to weed-control is 'RIP' or the ‘Removal of Individual Plants’ using hand-labour. Our research has shown that this is
- [Spud-Weedhook](https://lazydogtools.co.uk/spud-weedhook-2/) - For thistles etc in hedge bottoms or behind wire fences The Weedhook... our version, has an extra 'retrieval hook' underneath the blade and cutting hook. This enables the operator to pull the sliced thistle from out of the undergrowth or through the stock fencing.
- [Workrate predictor](https://lazydogtools.co.uk/workrate-predictor/) - Our method divides the whole site into estimated areas of bad, medium, and light infestation, and then averages out the density of the weed problem in those areas. We do this by measuring 5' X 5' sample plots in typical examples of those three grades of weed density. We count the weeds in the plots
- [Pulling Docks using a Lazy Dog](https://lazydogtools.co.uk/pulling-docks-using-lazy-dog/) - 1. Lean the Lazy Dog frame slightly forward of vertical, and place the points of the Fork (No8) or Weeder Nose (No1b) about 6" back from the crown of the plant.Allow for a 'cushion of soil' between root and lifting fork. 2. Place your foot on the pivot and swing all your weight onto it
- [RIP: When and Where](https://lazydogtools.co.uk/rip/) - When the ground is moist and weeds are visible, the ‘Removal of Individual Plants’ becomes a simple and immediate option, always selective and much more competitive than people realize.Optimum times for initiating RIP vary with latitude, degree of site exposure, type and degree of grazing, but all clearances should be started well before the growing
- [What is 'RIP'](https://lazydogtools.co.uk/removal-of-individual-plants/) - THE REMOVAL OF INDIVIDUAL PLANTS ( 'RIP' ) Using the Lazy Dog (L-D) method The use of modern hand-tool technology, is proving to be an excellent alternative (or just follow-up), to chemical weeding. On our organic farm in North Yorkshire, where the no-bend L-D tools are developed and made, weeds have for years been controlled
- [Faulty website...](https://lazydogtools.co.uk/webmaster/) - [contact-form]
- [How to buy](https://lazydogtools.co.uk/buy/) - Our website and on-line shop are being upgraded. A new online shop will be available in the next day or two. Until it is, please see: Old site and tool information Telephone 01751 417 351 or 01751 417 799 for advice, or post or fax us a mail order form with your cheque
- [Thank you](https://lazydogtools.co.uk/thank/) - Thank you for shopping with us! The Lazy Dog Tool Company Limited Our website is being upgraded - Monday 2nd July 2014. Please go to our old site
- [Spud-weedhook](https://lazydogtools.co.uk/spud-weedhook/) - For thistles etc in hedge bottoms or behind wire fencesThe Weedhook...our version. This has an extra 'retrieval hook' underneath the blade and cutting hook. This enables the operator to pull the sliced thistle from out of the undergrowth or through the stock fencing.

## Categories

- [Weeds](https://lazydogtools.co.uk/category/weeds/) - Our tools are dispatched from our workshop at Spaunton
- [Lazy Dog Frames and Accessories](https://lazydogtools.co.uk/category/lazy-dog/) - Established in 1994, Lazy Dog Tools tools continue to be hand-built by toolmakers in our on-farm workshop at Hill Top Farm, Spaunton, North Yorkshire. Today, a few key components are laser-cut for us by Fresh Metal Limited in the nearby town of Malton. Recently, we have discontinued the ductile iron forks in favour of laser-cut stainless steel.
- [All Lazy Dog Tools](https://lazydogtools.co.uk/category/tools/) - Established in 1994, Lazy Dog Tools tools continue to be hand-built by toolmakers in our on-farm workshop at Hill Top Farm, Spaunton, North Yorkshire. Today, a few key components are laser-cut for us by Fresh Metal Limited in the nearby town of Malton. Recently, we have discontinued the ductile iron forks in favour of laser-cut stainless steel.
- [Lazy Dog Chisel Hoes](https://lazydogtools.co.uk/category/chisel-hoes/) - Established in 1994, Lazy Dog Tools tools continue to be hand-built by toolmakers in our on-farm workshop at Hill Top Farm, Spaunton, North Yorkshire. Today, a few key components are laser-cut for us by Fresh Metal Limited in the nearby town of Malton. Recently, we have discontinued the ductile iron forks in favour of laser-cut stainless steel.
- [The Lazy Dog Spud Weedhook](https://lazydogtools.co.uk/category/spud-weedhook/) - Established in 1994, Lazy Dog Tools tools continue to be hand-built by toolmakers in our on-farm workshop at Hill Top Farm, Spaunton, North Yorkshire. Today, a few key components are laser-cut for us by Fresh Metal Limited in the nearby town of Malton. Recently, we have discontinued the ductile iron forks in favour of laser-cut stainless steel.
- [Lazy Dog Trowels](https://lazydogtools.co.uk/category/lazy-dog-trowels/) - Established in 1994, Lazy Dog Tools tools continue to be hand-built by toolmakers in our on-farm workshop at Hill Top Farm, Spaunton, North Yorkshire. Today, a few key components are laser-cut for us by Fresh Metal Limited in the nearby town of Malton. Recently, we have discontinued the ductile iron forks in favour of laser-cut stainless steel.
- [Lazy Dog Hoes](https://lazydogtools.co.uk/category/lazy-dog-hoes/) - Established in 1994, Lazy Dog Tools tools continue to be hand-built by toolmakers in our on-farm workshop at Hill Top Farm, Spaunton, North Yorkshire. Today, a few key components are laser-cut for us by Fresh Metal Limited in the nearby town of Malton. Recently, we have discontinued the ductile iron forks in favour of laser-cut stainless steel.
- [Manx Hoe Range](https://lazydogtools.co.uk/category/manx-hoe-range/) - Established in 1994, Lazy Dog Tools tools continue to be hand-built by toolmakers in our on-farm workshop at Hill Top Farm, Spaunton, North Yorkshire. Today, a few key components are laser-cut for us by Fresh Metal Limited in the nearby town of Malton. Recently, we have discontinued the ductile iron forks in favour of laser-cut stainless steel.
- [Tool Catalogue](https://lazydogtools.co.uk/category/tool-catalogue/)