Cheap Plug Cutter

[Anonymous]

While shopping in Home Depot today, found a great tool for cutting plugs in grass. For a little less than $19 plus tax, you can get a pretty good plug cutter.
This tool cuts about a three inche plug up to six inches deep. To operate the cutter (actually a tool for digging holes for planting), you pinpoint as usual, place the tool over this point, and step on the cross bar attached to the digger head. Once you press it to the depth you desite, pull it out and squeze a lever on the T-handle and the plug falls out of the tool. That easy! Just check the plug to make sure your target is in the plug and start breaking the plug where the target is located.
The tool leaves a hole that is larger at the top than bottom, while the plug is the same diameter over its length. To return the plug to the hole, just drop it back in the hole and step around the plug to secure the plug in the hole.
The only downside is that you need to be pretty dead on with your pinpointing to avoid damage to the target. Oh yes, the digging tool is coated with plastic and may help prevent some target damage. I amnot sure how it will handle rocks.
If this sounds like something your interested in, you can find in your local Home Depot Garden department next to the other garden digging tools. It is made by Hound Dog and is called "Bulb Hound Garden Planter. This green tool even has a Lifetime Guarantee.
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[Anonymous]

These are made for basically soft ground for planting bulbs, doubt if they would hold up, but worth a try and been around for years. Several commercial variations have been made over the years that work on manicured lawns..Drawbacks are if you hit a rock on the edge and of course could always damage a coin if you pinpoint is not dead on..I believe the commercial names were Hole Hog and Ground Mole and worked to a degree where dirt was soft and devoid of larger rocks.