Fiskars 4-Claw Stand Up Weed Puller Tool, Gardening Hand Weeding Tool with 39" Long Ergonomic Handle with Easy-Eject Mechanism

The Fiskars Deluxe Standing Weeder is awesome! Easy and quick to use. Is effective at getting long roots. Works well on clumpy weeds, too. Our soil has a bit of clay in it, but the weeder worked beautifully. I’m 5’7” and the tool was comfortable to use. I have had it for over a year and used it at least 50 times. Worth every penny!

This Fiskars Weeder is lightweight and easy to use. I pulled an entire pot full of dandelions in just a few minutes. The eject action is so satisfying and it makes a great sound - like racking one in the chamber. I tried this on pokeweed, but that taproot is just too long for this device. I tried it on a clump of crabgrass and it was super easy to pull the clump out. It sort of works on wild garlic, but it takes several tries to get the whole patch. They'll just grow back anyway.I have lots more weeding to go, but I'm a heart patient and need to do small chores each time. There's always tomorrow and more weeds! Anyone have a good recipe for dandelion greens and wild garlic?

The Fiskars 4 claw stand up weed remover is an easy to use and effective tool to rid your lawn of unwanted weeds. It takes very little effort. I am a short, senior lady and it's easy for me. The trick is to bend over and make sure you line up the tool head directly over the center of the weed; otherwise, you won't remove the entire weed. It does leave an empty space where the weed has been pulled but that is better than unsightly weeds. Its fun to use and very satisfying. Bonus: the tool also comes fully assembled.

I received this item about three weeks ago and have pulled up thousands of dandelions and assorted weeds with it from my yard in South Georgia. The ease with which this tool pulls weeds is truly remarkable. I can fill a full size 30 gallon trash can with weeds in about 20 minutes with this tool. I would estimate that I have filled approximately 30 trash cans with weeds in the past couple weeks. It helps that we have had rains recently, and the ground has been fairly soft. This makes it easier to press the prongs into the ground and to extract the long tap roots that dandelions have.Update May 12, 2013:After using this tool for about two weeks, the plastic at the base of the unit where the lever/foot pedal attaches to the shaft split in two. This rendered the tool unusable. The good news is that it was still within Amazon's return period when it broke. When I told the customer service rep at Amazon that the item had arrived in good shape, but had broken within two weeks, she immediately offered to send me a replacement to arrive the next day. As she promised it arrived the very next day, and UPS picked up the broken one for return AFTER I received the replacement. This enabled me to use the box that the replacement was shipped in to return the broken tool as I did not keep the original packaging. Amazon customer service is excellent!I received the replacement weed puller and on the second day of usage it broke in the same place as the first one.Update May 26, 2013I reported my problem directly to Fiskars. They have a form online to report damaged tools. I had to include a close-up picture of the damage. I did not hear back from them, so I was surprised when two weeks later I received a new weeder by UPS. By this time I had returned by second broken unit to Amazon, and they had issued a refund. Fiskars does not ask for the broken tool back. They seem to be satisfied with a photo of the broken tool.During the two weeks I was without the Fiskar's weeder I researched other weeders, but found nothing comparable that was of any better quality. The only truly durable weeder I found was Radius Garden 205 PRO Ergonomic Stainless Steel Weeder. Unfortunately, this tool will only pry the weeds out of the ground, but does not hold on to them and have the nice eject feature that is found on the Fiskars' weed puller. This tool, although durable, is not nearly as efficient as the Fiskar's Uproot Weeder. It is a lot more labor intensive, and I ended up not using it much.I was very happy therefore when Fiskars sent me the new weeder. After some consideration I found a way to use the Fiskars weeder without breaking it. Before I had been rocking the handle back in a single forceful motion to extract the weeds from the ground. This put too much stress on the plastic part of the lever. I found that if I rocked the handle back and forth, the Fiskars' Weeder would hold onto the weed, and pull it out of the ground, without breaking. I ended up finishing my yard, pulling hundreds of more weeds, many of them with large tap roots, and the Fiskars is still in good working order.I suggest that you use a rocking motion on weeds with large root systems. Don't try to extract them with a single forceful pull. It really doesn't take much more time. I may rock it back perhaps 3 times, and the root comes out easily. This method prevents the plastic lever from breaking.This weeder works far better than any other one I have tried. I actually enjoy getting out and stabbing weeds and extracting them from the ground with this tool.I have been pleased with other Fiskars products from the time I first tried a pair of their scissors about twenty years ago. At present I have a long handled axe, a hatchet, and the StaySharp reel mower by Fiskars and I am very pleased with all of them. This weeder is the only tool from Fiskars that I am unable to give a five star rating to. I believe that by using plastic on the critical parts, they have built a flaw into the tool. Nevertheless, it is still the tool I prefer by far for this task. If one is careful with it, they can get good service from it.

I always have doubts about products that I can't see and try out in person. But with the Fiskars name on this weed puller, I took a chance. Boy, am I glad I did. It was amazing. Well built. Easy to use. Not heavy. Ejects the weed without much effort. The only downside I could find is that because of the way the tool is constructed, it makes getting weeds near a fence or wall somewhat difficult when you need to rock the tool back to pull the weed out of the ground. I would buy it again and would highly recommend it to others. Well worth the price. Packed well and arrived in perfect condition.