Ron Wilson 7/27/2024 Hour 2

Your calls and Ron's expert tips. We also hear about the Earth Lifter tool from Neil Bevilacqua.

Episode Transcript

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Our toll free number eight hundred eighttwo three eight two five five. Good
morning. I am Ron Wilson,your personal yard boy, talking about yard
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just a moment. But in themeantime we're going to go back to the
gardening phone lines at eight hundred eighttwo three eight two five five two three
eight two five five. Yes,it is right Tom and Cincinnati. Good
morning, Good morning, Ron,Yes, sir, I am good Thanks,
I have a pinoak that's in discress. It's uh. I planted at

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about twenty six years ago, andit was about two and a half inch
and diameter back then, and itdid well for quite a long time,
but then over a period of timeit started time having growth problems, a
lot of the yellowish leaves and leavesbranches dying off. And I had a
tree servers that cannot and they verticalmust said it, and I found out

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at that time that iron was abig factor, and I talked to them.
It didn't include that in what theyput on. So they came out
and actually redrilled the holes and putiron in it and didn't even charge me
anything except for the irons, whichis pretty nice of them anyway. So
I've got an augur and I've gota mixture I made. I've got fertilizer,

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soil amendment, and some ironite,and I'm just wanting is now a
good time to do that again?Or should I wait until spring for that?
When? When did When was itdone the last time? Yeah?
It was done this not this pastspring, but the spring previous. Okay,
can you still do it? Yes? You can? You know You're
to be honest with you. Ithink that's something you're going to wind up

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doing probably every year or every otheryear to try it. Did you notice
the difference this year? Yeah?It helped, Okay, because it's a
it's a tough one. I'm gonnabe honest with you. That's a when
you get iron, iron chlorosis generallyis what the pinoaks are suffer from because
of the pH of the soils aroundhere. The pH is so high that

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the iron becomes tied up and it'snot available. Now, there's other manganese
and there's other you know, thingsthat may be missing as well, but
typically the irons that usually the issues. So when they do that, they're
usually adding something, uh, notonly the iron, but a little bit
of fertilizer and something to help bringthe pH down around that tree as well,

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Like if you used iron sulfate.Iron sulfate has the iron and the
sulfur with it, and the sulfurhelps to bring the pH levels down.
Yeah, I iron iched yep.So you know that, that's why they
do that. And again it canbecome an every year or every other year,
as a matter of fact, someof them will come back. They'll
do what you're doing with the verticalmulching and do that, which is the

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vertical mulching helps just a loone helpstree out every other year. And then
they can also come through and putwhat's called medcaps or iron supplements that go
right into the trunk of the treeand it's an immediate feed of iron so
it doesn't even get tied up inthe soil down below. So they can
do a combination. It's a hardprocess to change that, especially in older

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trees. It really is a struggle. And sometimes you know, they'll take
a look at it. If theydon't think they can get it to change,
they'll suggest that maybe you know,you don't do anything with it and
look at another type of tree.But yeah, and answer your question,
yes, can you do that?You can now you could also if you
wanted to wait until we get intothe fall season. That's a good time

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for feeding trees as well. Soyou know, as a matter of fact,
at this stage in the game,I mean, they could do it,
I would probably just say I'd holdoff. I mean, we get
we're in the heat right now,we've you know, had inconsistent rains and
all I'd hold off. I'd lookat doing that more in late September October.
The I'm doing it right now asfar as the weather and all,

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I just hold off for a couplemore months. Okay, Well, this
tree is kind of important because onthe west side, and it's the only
thing between me and the sun whenit'll roast the end of my house or
I don't have really good air conditioning. Yep, oh, I get that.
I I one hundred percent, andI understand again, do everything you

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can to try to save it.And like I say, I am yeah.
And the arborist will, you know, try to help you because their
goal is to save the tree too. They don't want to lose it.
They don't want to have to takeit down. I just know sometimes when
you get into some of these biggerpinoaks and iron chlorosis, it's a tough
one. It's a tough road toho it's a it's a hard one to
keep them right. But you cankeep doing this and hopefully it will help

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to keep it going and out ofthe stress, and you see those leaves
start to green up a little bitmore. But again you may you may
down the road. Look at thecat the drilling into the trunk of the
tree as well and adding those everynow and then as a supplement. That
does help too. Yeah, yeah, it's uh. Most of the leaves
are a darker green good, aboutmaybe a third to one fourth of them

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on the one side, on theeast side of it are kind of a
real light green. Yep. Andsee just came in originally kind of yellow,
but uh, I had spread someiron on the ground and they did
kind of get a little a littlemore green. Are still kind of a
light, very light green, butthey're not yellow anymore. Yeah. And
you'll see that too, and whichis amazing. You'll look at those pinnoakes

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and half of the thing will lookhalfway decent, and the backside or a
third of it, you know,very chlorotic. And of course that's all
shows you the root system down belowand and where the iron is and the
phs and all of that. Sobut good luck with it, Tom,
and just stick with it. AndI understand how valuable that true is.
You can't replace it. So nowyou've got to do everything you can to

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keep it as healthy as possible.And again, even the vertical multiplace.
Yeah, this is soil. I'mright up the street from Nator as a
matter of fact, Oh okay,yeah, yeah, it's it's It can
be tough on no doubt, butstick with it and hopefully you'll be able
to pull this thing through. Okay, right, thank you very much.
All Right, Tom good talking withyou, Paul and Wad's worth. Hey

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Paul, what's happening? Hey?You know what we call that variety?
Uh uh? Basically when you getthe two tone in the dark green,
that's a variegated Yeah, yeah,it's variegated. All right, Yeah,
I know what he's talking about.I've seen it many times on my drive
to Yep. I'm my drive togo pick on my kiddos from their camp

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out and Medina here and uh yeah, I drive past the big old like
you said, uh, iron Chlorosis uh you know, totally yellow.
I was like, hey, it'salmost you almost look at it and it's
like one of those new maple treeswith the yellow you know. Yeah,
I forget what variety is, youknow, the one I'm talking about.
But but anyway, man, you'renot gonna like what I'm doing this morning.

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Well maybe maybe you will, Idon't know. Well, first of
all, I'm watering my watering mybeautiful bob cypress out front that I love.
Obviously I don't want it. Yeah, but uh yeah, I finally
gave in. Ron, I gavein. I couldn't believe it's to the
pressure. I'm so sick of lookingat this front yard with the brown because,
like you said, the on offrain and the promised strain would get

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from the weather forecasters and it doesn'tcome. So guess what I did yesterday.
I finally broke down and went toSite one and got my bottle of
let's go green turk paint. Ohdid you yep? And I painted my
front yard and it looks gorgeous.Now you know what I have put it
on real? Go ahead, goahead. I was gonna say, I

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have never I have never done thatpersonally. I have had some folks that
have done that, and it's amazinghow that does carry you through that,
you know, letting your long goodorm it and it stays up pretty decent
green until it's time for the greenback up again in the fall. I'll
be honest with yourn. I feltguilty. I was like, oh,
this is so stupid. I can'tbelieve I'm doing this yet, but but

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I've tried everything. I'm so likea watering you know, you know how
it is you up with that whenyou're just not getting consistent right now,
I don't want a huge water bill, so I think, you know what,
enough with this. This will lastfor two three months. Hopefully the
drought won't last three three months.But it's uh, it's pretty bad up
here in northern Ohio. Yeah,right up here in the region of Akronworth.
Like I said, it's awful,dude. We we got we got,

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we got to a five inch deposit. I think, I don't know,
it's pretty bad. Wow, yeah, that's pretty pretty hard. But
yeah, but you know what,I didn't put it on. I didn't
put it on real heavy. Ijust did a light kind of grazing,
misty kind of thing, you know, with this prayer right, and it
looks natural. Dude. I'm youknow, I'll take pictures of it.
I was gonna say, take acouple of shots. I'd love to see

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it. I've got after him before, so I could show you what it
looked like horrid before of course brownHill. And then I'll show you the
nice little tones of green I did. And you know, I'm pretty artistic
that way. I got an artisticbackground, so I I didn't screw it
up. I blended it in reallynice. Yes, say he didn't paint
any pictures in it or anything,did you? Yeah? No, No,
that was gonna I was gonna.Yeah, alright, inis or whatever.

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Yeah, send me a Paul.Seriously, I've seen I've seen,
folks. I've never done that myself, but I've seen it done and it's
not too bad. It's you know, it keeps it green while you let
it go dormant, and it firesback up in the fall. Oh gosh,
it's amazingly natural look to it.I don't know what how they came
up with the color int in itthat he did the way they chose it,
but I'll tell you what it's.It just looks amazing. It really

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does. I thought, you know, I saw the videos on YouTube and
I'm like, ah, should Ido this? You know, I'm like,
all right, I'll buy the bullet. I'll go buy the joke.
Got a gallon of it. Alascobrand. There's a couple of different brands
obviously, but like you said,it doesn't hurt the grass. It's just
uh, it lasts about two threeyou know, it's depending on if you
have to cut it of course you'recutting off the grass that you if it

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does start growing again, but whocares, you know, it's just green
then and then it hopefully will begreen. But uh, for now,
I got tired looking at the browns. All right, I love it.
Hey, thanks for the call,appreciate it. Always pleasure talking with you.
I take care, quick break,we come back. Phone lines are
open for you at eight hundred eighttwo three eight two five five coming up
to the bottom of the hour.New tool a found out there called the

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Earthlifter, and if you want tocheck out more, you can go to
earthlifter dot com. Pretty you know, you look at something like this,
you go, why didn't I thinkof that? But it's the way it's
it's designed. You can lift eightypounds with less than twenty pounds effort,
and so that really reduces the strainon your back and your elbows and all
of that, and as you getolder, makes it do a little bit
more enjoyable to do a little bitof gardening out there. We'll talk with

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the inventor, Neil. Are youready for this? Be bevloqua bevoloqua.
Dan, you're sure about that?I am positive about that. And this
man is fired up about his earthliftercoming up to the bottom of the hour.
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two three eight two five five bythe way, you know, talking about
that the pin oak and the chlorosis, and it's uh, it's an issue
in our area. With our soils, a pH level is usually up in
the seven four seven five, andwhen it's at that high of the level,
a lot of nutrients are not availableto plants in the through the soil,
and so iron happens to be oneof those and a lot of the

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oak trees can adjust to that,but pinoak is one of the worst.
When it comes to a high pH. Boy, they just become chlorotic.
May last for some time, butthen all of a sudden it starts to
be showing chlorosis. And chloro chlorosiscan be a combination of all kinds of
factors poor rooting, too wet,too dry the soil, pH is,
lack of iron in the soil.I mean, there's all kinds, and

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there's there's magnet, magn magn magnesium, manganese, I'm sorry, and others
that can cause them to yellow.Also with a lack of maples go through
that a lot lack of manganese inthe soil, and boy, they just
yellow out quickly. But again,pH is an important factor, so we
talk about having your soils tested.pH is one of the first things I

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look at to see where it isbecause that can determine I mean, your
garden could the pH could be soacidic or so alkalin that no matter how
much you feed it, the plantscan't take them up because of the pH
of the soil. It just allgets locked up in there. S The
pH is extremely important. And againwhen you're dealing with this colurosis like an

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arc situation, with the high pH, it's not just as supplementing with the
iron, which does work. Asa matter of fact, talking about those
caps that go in the side ofthe tree, obviously you are wounding the
tree, but they put those rightin there. It's taken up immediately and
you see pretty quick results from thatand it works fairly nicely. And also
working with the vertical mulching and theiron sulfate and things like that to help

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change the pH and add iron andfertilizer as well. All of the above
they'll do, but it's a toughsituation trying to change that pH hydrangeas blue
or pink in the macrophileus. Ifit's pink, it's a high pH.
If it's blue, it's a lowerpH. You can go in there and
make the adjustments soil, acidifire andbring that down, and all of a
sudden you've got some blues, lotsof blues, a little bit of pink

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flower in there. But unless youkeep doing that all the time, it
will eventually change back. Then youback to pink flowers. So he's got
to stick with it. It's atough tough thing to do. Steven,
South Carolina, good morning, goodmorning, you're on. My wife received
as a gift a small butterfly bushand she was so proud of it.

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She planted it right in the frontyard between the sidewalk and the house.
And it's grown and it's grown andgrown, and now it's about seven or
eight feet tall, and she's nothappy with it. Okay, Yeah,
she loves the butterflies to visit it, but it's just too large for the
spots. Right. My question isis there a recommended way to relocate it?

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Sir? Yeah, and don't doit. Now obviously, but I
would you know, if you'd movethose in, I would probably wait until
the first October at that point,and what you can do at that point
because it'll start kind of fizzling out. I mean, you used to have
a few flowers here and there,but you know you can cut it back.
I would tie it up so youget get all those branches out of
the way. Dig it at thatpoint, take as large of a root

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ball as you can with it,move it to the new location, replant
it like you would a whole newnew plant. If you want to cut
it back at that point a littlebit you can to make it easier to
move, but otherwise you can leaveeverything on there if you like. If
it works for you, water itin well. Of course, stick with
it as you go through the fallseason. Do remind your wife, Steve,
that there are more dwarf varieties andthat's what the big push is now

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in the in the butterfly bush arethe dwarf varieties that stay three to four
feet or less that still give youthose huge flowers and still bring in the
butterflies for you that if she wantsto stick with that, go to the
local garden center what is it barnsNow we used to be Woodleighs, but
barns or whatever. Go to theirgarden center and see about the dwarf selections

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butterfly bush. She could go backand do that out there. So now
she's got you know, you've movedthe other one to a place where it
gets can get large, and thenyou've got the dwarfhins that you have out
by the sidewalk between the sidewalk andthe house, and then she can enjoy
them with both areas. Also remindher in that big one in the springtime,
does she cut that thing back tothe pretty close to the ground to
start it all over? She does? Okay, yeah, and don't forget

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as you dead had through the season. You can kind of keep it controlled
as well, but why not putit somewhere that they can just go ahead
and grow and do its thing anduse the dwarf ones out front as well.
And then you got them got thosebutterflies all around the house. Yes,
well, thank you, Ron.I'm so glad all right, Steve,
good talking with you. And againSouth Carolina. I think Columbia is

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where we were coming out of theirbeautiful town and I think they were getting
hit with some pretty heavy rainfalls thelast couple of days as well. A
We're gonna take a quick so hopefullythey're good there. There's a lot of
areas that could sure you that ring. Uh take a quick break, will
you come back. We're going totalk about a new tool that's available for
you to make your gardening a littlebit easier, called the Earthlifter tool.

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Earthlifter dot com is their website.Neil bevel Aqua will join us. He's
the inventor of the Earthlifter. Thisguys fired up about this tool. I
saw it at the trade show atInternet trade show Cultivating Columbus a couple of
weeks ago, and it's a prettycool and some one of those things you
look at it and go, whydidn't I think of that? Well he
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again that toll free number eight hundredeight two three eight two five five.
I was at a trade show,a huge industry show green industry show a
couple of weeks ago called Cultivate,and it's a it's an international show,
and you get folks there from allaround the world, and you see a
lot of new plants, new plantsthat are coming along in the market.
You see a lot of new pottery, new greenhouse ideas and designs, planting

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machines. I mean, you justsee so many different things, and there's
always a few new tools and thingsthat are there for you to take a
look at as well. So I'mgoing down the aisle and I'm looking at
all these things, and all ofa sudden, I see this booth up
in front of me on the righthand side, and it's surrounded by ten
or fifteen people all gathered around takinga look at whatever was inside his booth.

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So I kind of worked my wayup and worked my way through,
and I see this very unique lookingtool, like a garden fork, but
it has a little bit of adifferent design. And this gentleman's in there
explaining about how this new tool calledthe earthlifter tool works and helps your back,
and everybody's impressed, and I'm impressed, and I'm looking at it,

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going man, I wish I'd havethought of something like that. Well he
did. I didn't, and that'swhy he's here today to tell us all
about the Earthlifter Tool. He happensto be Neil Bevalaqua and he is with
us this morning. Good morning,sir, hi, hi Roan. How
are you doing? I am doinggreat in yourself, actually pretty good,
pretty good. So you asked mewhether you want, sir, all right,

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good to have you with us,by the way, so look,
first of all, let's talk aboutwhere you came up with the idea of
the Earthlifter tool. All right,So obviously that can take about fourteen hours,
but we'll make it as we'll givethe highlights, so I think you
can understand. So first of all, I saw it off as a math

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person. I'm a real kind ofa big math guy. And then I
went into university and I was guidedby some very brilliant guys and basically they
said to me, Neil, youreally you really have a really a proclivity
or a good background for human actorsengineering. And I never heard of it,

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and I said, okay, where'sthat. So basically it's it's a
I was in a psychology undergraduate wasexperimental psychology, and I did my uh
my a masters in cognitive and thisthese professor said me, Neil, you
really are turned you know, madefor your mechanical also for human factors.

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So human factors is basically psychology,engineering, uh, biomechanics, and industrial
design. So okay, So Iinto that other masters and the uh it's
it's it opened my eyes to work, what it means to work. Okay.

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So that's the basis of it.And I study work, and I
study people's performance and people's happiness basicallydoing their work. We all work,
so and the garden industry has alot. Digging in the ground is heavy
work. Yes, So I studied. I studied how I needed to do

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something. You know, if Imay go on, I lost I had
an accident. I lost my hand, my dominant hand, and it was
a tragedy. It you know,really you know, foot me out,
and so I decided to I wantedto do something, and so I did

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the simplest thing in the world.I looked at my potato patch and I
said, I want to lift upthose potatoes with one hand. So that's
how it kind of all sawed.So interesting. Yeah, so there was
a need for it. There wasin need, a need in the sense
of for a thousand years people havebeen using So I studied, Okay,

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so I studied digging. I studiedwhat it meant to do garden work and
people, everybody who does gardening doeswork. And so if if work can
be let's say, transformed into somethingless onerous, something where it can actually
almost be fun, because I believegardening is the best exercise of all the

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exercises. You know, you're you'restretching, you're you're bending, you're lifting.
You know, if you're a treadmillor a stationary bicycle or even let's
say jogging, you're using your musclesin one direction. You're doing the same
motion over and over again. Andit's it's good. You know, call
you vasculi. But when you talkabout the entire body, you should be

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moving yourself in different ways. SoI I, you know, let's goay,
I study work. And after myuniversity, or actually I was,
I was drafted out of university towork for big corporation, transforming all the
workstations, all the ways. Youknow, a couple of hundred people did
work, and I moved things around. I put platforms up in the air.

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I want people to be happy andhealthy. So if you are doing
something that hurts yourself, there goesthe psychology part of me says, well,
that's not what they call efficacious.It's not producing a desirable effect,
and you stop doing it. SoI wanted to make a tool that you

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can use, and actually it makessense. And you know, there's a
quote from Steve Jobs. Design isnot how a tool feels. A tool
is not how it A design isnot how a tool looks. Design is

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how something works. So I wantedto make something that works. So that
was that's the genesis of this tool. I needed to lift potatoes with a
two tool with one hand and discoveredthat, oh wow, it's great for
my back. So so we'll gooff there. And so that's how that's
how the the Earthlifter came about.Out of necessity and of course trying to

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make things easier for other gardeners aswell, and of course gardening being good
for you as far as health,but it can also be a killer on
your back. And of course asmany of us get older and we want
to continue to garden, it getstougher and tougher all the time. So
finding these tools that can help us, uh be a little bit more effortless
or easier on us really does help. And obviously that's what the Earthlifter has

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done. It's basically a garden forkwith a very very special design. So
I'm just curious. You know,you had the garden fork. How did
you come up with the design?I mean, were there a lot of
prototypes you went through? What wasthe process there? Okay, so I
had this terrible accent. I almostdied bleeding. I almost bled to death,

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and I had you know, I'veleft my hand. You know,
I don't get gory with you,but I was one one handed, and
uh, I was devastated. AndI said to myself, well, I
used to work on air traffic controlsystems, nuclear power player, the size.
I used to work on some verysophisticated stuff in my university and afterwards.

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Uh, but now I was Iwas looking at the simplest thing in
the world, right, digging ahole or or lifting list Actually it's actually
lifting below the earth. So whenyou think about shoveling or forking or digging
something up, you are going belowthe earth and you don't know what's down

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there. Actually, so you couldhear rock or root, and then the
most see my main bugaboo. WhenI studied the motion, the actions,
the the actual way you use ashovel or a fork. If you just
visualize yourself shoveling snow. All right, So what is it. You're twisting,

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your twisting your body. Then you'rebending over and then you're kind of
stretching even further and jerking something outof the ground with one hand, something
very heavy. Now your body canmove, and you know this is biomechanics.
Your body can move in all kindsof different ways. You know,
no problem. Your joints are meantto move in multi level multi ways,

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but not under loads, not whenthere's weight. When you when you are
trying to move something with your wrists, where your elbow or your back in
the wrong orientation, the wrong posture. Think about weightlifting. You know you
gotta be you got to keep yourspine straight. So shoveling and forking,

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let's use the same way. Isa twisting, bending motion where you are
jerking up weight against gravity. SoI looked at that and I studied that.
Okay, So I started in twentytwelve. It took me ten years.
Wigarette the figurette. Okay, I'ma I'm a math. You know,

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I'm very gifted in math and geometry, geometry especially, So I'm looking
at this thing. I'm saying,oh, uh, how can I do
this with one hand? And youknow I thought, well, Archimedes,
you know, you know, alever and fulcrum. Then I said to
myself, oh, Pythagoras with awith the curve. See, I studied.

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I looked real hard for years atI thought myself as a plant.
And if I was a plant,and I was, I had I'd want
to be lifted up vertically, nottorn out on a diagonal you do with
a shovel. So if you dothat and you were able to shake the

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roots as you're doing it, andif you were able to push down,
see, basically, if my toolreverses the physics of lifting. So basically,
the tool is the tool. Thedefinition of a tool is something that
gives you a mechanical advantage. Sothe design of that curve is actually it's

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called the rolling folkrum. So it'sa it's a pivot, but it's a
arc pivot. It's a big space, it's not points, and it rolls.
It moves, so as it moves, It makes a lifting motion in
the underground and so the plant orthe roots come straight up. So you

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have control because you're pushing down andthe tool, the tool is doing the
work. Say we have take haveto take a break here real quick so
we can hang on with that thought. It's called the Earthlifter tool. If
you want to check it out duringthe break, just go to earthlifter dot
com. You'll see what we're talkingabout there. We'll come back. We'll
have talking more about this great tool. It's a garden fork that really makes

(33:59):
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back. You're in the garden withRon Wilson. It was the head of
the show Cultivate up in Columbus acouple of weeks ago. It's called the
Earthlifter tool for easier digging. It'sthe type of thing you look at and
say, man, I wish Iwould have thought of that, or invented
that or came up with it.Well, uh, this gentleman did is
Neil Bevallaqua and we're talking about howhe came up with the Earthlifter, and

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you can go to the website.It's earthlifter dot com. Earthlifter dot com
and this tool. I tell you, you know, the first thing I
thought of, Neil was when Ifirst saw you doing this. You know,
the interest in raised bedgardening, andyou know, you know and no
till gardening, and how this toolmakes it so much easier to go through

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and just to crack or break thesoil without really tilling the soil. Boy,
that's perfect for that. That,Like I said, raised beds are
in regular vegetable gardens. So youknow what I was saying before about I
look at big picture things and thinkabout the industry, the gardening industry,

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and what is what is the problemor what is the let's say, the
trepidations or the hesitancy about gardening andgardening. You know, it's heavy,
it's hard, and it can hurt, you know. You know, if
you look at the statistics, thirtysix percent of all the medical costs are

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have to do with lower back problems. So besides doing a making it easy,
is this thing has a four toone mechanical advantage, which means that
if you have eighty pounds in theground worth of a bush or or stumps
or rocks, you need only twentypounds of pressure to pick it up.

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So but by doing that, youknow and once again to get into the
education part, my doctor will workwith economics of engineering. So what how
does the industry? Let's think bigpicture. If you are in the garden
or the horticulture industry, what isyour biggest expense? What is the real

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big expense? The biggest expense expenseis people and and you know and and
you you have either the business aspectlike landscaping guys, or even in your
backyard let's call it, you haveit's time. Your time and your effort
are are expensive. And if youare feeling good and you are happy about

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what you're doing, you're going todo more of it. So what is
the problem. What I see,what I solve is the problem is actually
the primitive tools that we've used fora thousand years of you know, shovels
and forks. And it's not thatthe shovels and forks are bad or anything.
It's just that they're not meant forthe job that they do. A

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shovel should transfer material. Digging isa different animals. It's like using a
screwdriver with a pounds and nail.Okay, you could do it, but
it's not really And then you it'sspeaking of you know, if you have
a screwdriver. You know, twentyyears ago you you would be sitting there
trying to screw one hundred screws witha hand screwdriver. But now you have

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a screw gun, right, right, So tools evolved, I mean or
this, well, this tool isan evolution from a simple basic stick in
your hands jerking up heavy weight belowthe ground to something that is actually it's
it's it's closer to a machine.Machine means that it has mechanical advantage.

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So this tool will make your lifea whole lot easier. But it's it's
also you mentioned that, yeah,tilling, it's it's it's great for tilling
because I usually I studied it againstbroad forks, and it's it's fast and
easier and more fun. Right,and so you know, so you you

(40:06):
should be air rating. I havetwenty nine I grow a lot of stuff.
I mean, I have nineteen differentcultivars gallics and wow, who does
that? Right? You do?But it's a hobby. It's a hobby.
I grow like eighteen hundred heads andI you know, and I grow
fido nutrient potatoes, all right.So that's that's something that's gonna be coming

(40:29):
up to. You know, mywife and I both study nutrition and we
study uh, you know, wehave thousands of flowers and blueberries and blah
blah blah. So we we doit. You know, we're out there
and in the garden in your beds, you're gonna have clay soil, You're
gonna have rocks, and you're gonnahave weeds, plus you know, other

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roots and stumps. And so Isaid to myself, well, I said
I when I saw this thing formy lifting potatoes, I said, wow,
it can also lift weeds. Itcan, it can It can take
care of a lot of the problems. And the psychology of it is that
if it's fun, you're going todo it. Or if it's not onerous,

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or it's not it's not painful,you're going to do so. So
that's the kind of the big picturething is that the garden industry has to
think about the workers, and theworkers who are injured don't buy fertilizer,
and they don't buy plants. Well, let's get let's get down the dirty.
Got about two minutes to go.So if folks, folks are more

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interested in the Earthlifter tool, ofcourse they can go to your website earthlifter
dot com. Now you can youcan buy that on your website. But
there are also garden centers that arestarting to sell this as well. Correct.
Yes, yes, uh, abunch are a bunch. More than
a few are buying it, andand and no, you know, it's

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interesting. It's one of the besttools in the world for u values.
Values are a really interesting plant andyou have to lift them out of the
ground because they're they're tropical. Basicallythey don't need so people don't want to
be buying values because you have tolift them out of the ground. So
it's good for you know, uh, people who are doing you know,

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like market farming. There's a lotof guys doing you know, growing stuff
and selling them on you know,you know, in the farmer's market kind
of thing. It's good for aguy. Yes, they has thirty acres
or something of Lily's and and people, so we're selling them to seed catalogs.
Let's call it as a as adrop ship item and there's a bunch

(42:45):
of really high, you know,very nice garden scents that are seeing that
people are getting old. Yep,hey, we got we're running out of
time. It's called Earthlifter Tool.Go to their website earthlifter dot com.
Neio Bevel, I appreciate you spendingtime this morning. Great tool. I
think you really hit this one onthe head. Does a great job again.

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Learn more about it at earthlifter dotcom. That's earthlifter dot com.
Thank you, sir for spending timewith us this morning. All right,
thanks, thank you, all right, take care earthlifter dot com. That's
earthlifter dot com. And you canorder it there or find out what the
garden centers where you can find aswell. If you do, I'll tell
you what raise beds for breaking upthe soil. That thing's there. If

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you are doing a small hobby gardeningin that farms where you are raising values
and touburs and all the type ofthing garlic or whatever. This thing is
going to save you a lot whenit comes to backaches down the road.
It's a great tool. All right, quick break, we come back.
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