BULLY TOOLS92381 3/8-Inch Dibble Bar with Steel T-Style Handle

Planted over 3,000 sapling this spring with no issues. Very well made. Heavy. You will get tired of carrying it. However, it works great for saplings and you can easily plant one per minute depending upon distance apart.

Planted 225 pine tree seedlings and based on root size I was able to use the dibble bar on most of them. Sure made planting easier!!

Great product. Sturdy and made planting easy.

So ... this is a pretty good tool overall. Some have had problems with the weld breaking ... Not me. The tool is strong and I was able to plant 100 seedlings quickly with it. The grip is good and spongy and is firmly attached.Here's the thing ... it's all about who welded it together. When you get your tool, examine the weld. If it is concave or sloped inward, you have a hot, strong and penetrating weld with a good bond by someone that knows what they are doing. If it is humped up and bumpy ... AN AMATEUR WELDED IT ... BOOM !!! ... That's was a cold-shot weld and the tool will likely break right away. Examine it ... if the weld is humped up as described it will probably break. If so, send it back immediately and get another one. I'm pretty sure this company's QC has taken care of any past problems with weld quality as some limited other feedback might suggest. I would overlook that frankly. So I've welded for 43 years and know what I'm talking about with steel and I'm sure mine was welded by someone qualified ... I will keep it.I dinged it one star because the blade metal is relatively soft mild steel, cannot be hardened and will dull fairly quickly. Every 100 - 200 trees or so you will likely need to grind a new blade edge with a 120 grit sanding disk ... check the weld and keep if it is good. If had designed it ... I would have welded on a 3/8" cobalt edge and ground that sharp ... I didn't ... Get Over It ... Buy it anyway. It's a good value regardless.The Ironman ... Ret.

Great for bare root small trees. So easy to make a spot to plant.

I have never heard of a dibble bar before. However, I ordered some trees from my local nature conservancy, and in their planting tutorials they mentioned using a dibble bar to plant their seedlings. I figured if they suggested it, I should purchase one as I had hundreds of seedlings to plant.I have land in upstate NY, and the ground is full of rocks and dirt is clay like. So digging is a chore and back breaking work. But this dibble bar really made it easy to break into the dirt by pushing in, then pushing to create a pocket to plant the seedling and then getting the dirt back into the hole.It actually became a joy to plant these seedlings, and of course, now that it was easy to do and I could see progress of getting these seedlings into the ground, it further motivated me to continue planting.It made what could have easily been a chore, a pleasure! I love tools that provide function and help make work easier (isn't that the job of a tool?). This dibble bar is well constructed and sturdy, also not too heavy to manipulate/use.I love it!

I had 100 northern pecan trees and 100 red oak tree to plant from seedlings. Most tree was 14" to 20" tall with a few around a foot high from ground level up... This tool made quick and easy work of the task. If the trees get much larger than that, I'd suspect you'd have to cut multiple troughs in the ground, but under my circumstances, a single thrust into the earth was all that was necessary.After having experienced the personal hell associated with using a spade, shovel, and other tooling, I can honestly say this was a really wise purchase and I have zero regrets.I'm assuming from the build of this tool it'll last forever. The ground I was planting into had been rained on a few days prior which helped, but ranged from choice black Iowa soil to clay junk. The dibble bar worked fine in both soils and all the stuff in between.Buy with confidence.

Planted 200 seedlings using this tool which is made specifically for planning small seedling trees instead of having to use a shovel which takes 10 minutes to dig a hole in her door and that’s not the correct tool to plant a bear root seedling.Should have purchased one of these years ago

For hand planting seedlings, it's the best tool I've used. Moves tough soil, no problems with bending, solid construction. I planted 2000 trees this year and wish I had bought two of these, so my helper could of kept up. My college helper raved about how easy it was to use the Dibble bar for making holes and closing them back up, a real time saver.Tim

They Do The Job.

Planted 150 saplings with it in only a couple hours

Fabulous tool for planting seedlings

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