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Another great hand tool is a mattock tiller. It has a two-sided steel head. One side is a digging fork with straight tines and the other end is an adze, which is like a dull axe whose blade runs ...

Tino has an axe-headed mattock, and uses the flattened axe side of the head to grub out old tree roots. To use picks and mattocks, you want a smooth, arc motion for the most efficient results.

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