Stand up Weed Puller Tool Heavy Duty Weeding Tool with Long Wooden Handle and 4-Claw Steel Head

I was on the fence about ordering this because there are some negative reviews. Well it turns out many of those are because the person didn't know the way this was intended to be used. Think of this as a lawn tweezers. You step down on the foot bar to plant the tip deep in the soil. Then you lean the bar towards the foot peg and this forces the pincher to close on the root. As you keep levering the bar it will pry the weed out of the ground. Think of using a claw hammer to pull nails as the analogy. The smart parts of the design are 1) using your body weight to drive it into the dirt, 2) using a long lever to both pinch and pry the weed out. At that point I use the side of my shoe to try to scrape the weed out of the prongs. I've used it for a week now and each time I go out, I remove 100-200 weeds from the lawn. I just leave them on the grass and then dice them to oblivion with the lawn mower. If you leave the dandelions they can pull nutrition from the remaining plant and produce seeds after a couple of days. I like this so much, I made a video, but apparently I can't upload that here. (sigh) Weed or grass parts can become lodged in the prongs. It also leaves little holes in your lawn about 1.5 inches square. So if that gives you distress, maybe this isn't the tool for you. But rest assured after a couple days they fill in. The surrounding dirt either expands to fill in the hole when watered or the grass grows toward the open space. I figure it's not that different than using a plug aerator. Depending on how dry your soil is, the weeder can snap the root off after the pinchers (they have a 2.5 inch depth), or it can pull the whole thing out. I've included a couple of best case scenario pix.