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The Right Stuff10-22-15 | News

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A new ergonomically designed one-arm gardening multi-tool, the Mulch Fork & Spade is intended to relieve back and wrist strain typically inflicted by traditional tools, and provide plenty of leverage while keeping your wrist in a comfortable position and giving you a free hand for planting. Its inventor, Steve Van Valin, told LC/DBM that the product debut will be on QVC in January or February and it should be priced under $40.
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Just recently launched in the U.S., the TAHOE Slipfence was designed for speed and simplicity of installation, and engineered to give homeowners a solid, sturdy, long lasting, non-twisting, non rotting, aluminum framed wooden fence that provides ample privacy. It consists of aluminum posts, aluminum stringers that have been pre-punched with fence board holes, and aluminum brackets to affix the stringers to the posts. All that is needed are regular, 6'-tall fence boards to be "slipped" in through the top and bottom stringer holes and fastened.
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The Renegade Broom is a side-sweep or pull broom with curved bristles that are designed to get to hard to reach places, reduce the effort required for basic sweeping while at the same time providing so much sweeping action, it even works on grass. It comes with an Italian-made telescoping handle and has an MSRP of $29.99.
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The Landmark Lawn Truck from BrandFX Body Company is billed as a cost effective & highly efficient system for pest control programs. It features an aluminum sub-frame understructure to improve fuel economy and maximize payloads, four fiberglass storage boxes [20"x 30"x 63"], a transverse fertilizer compartment, 600 gallon main tank with baffle system, 150 gallon drop split tank 100/50 for custom blending onsite, two Comet APS-51, 14 GPM pumps and two 22" Titan electric rewind hose reels that hold 300' of 1/2" spray hose (600 psi- yellow).
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Banding trees with the BugBarrier???(R)???AE????, can help prevent fall cankerworms and winter moths from climbing up trees to lay eggs. Required to be EPA registered as a "mechanical pesticide," its dense, flexible fiber barrier fills bark crevices and its adhesive film barrier faces the tree, keeping insect carcasses out of sight.
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