This locally made gardening tool is revolutionizing yardwork, meet the Rak-O

You tin cheque retired the Rak-o and conscionable Marshall and Kevin astatine the Fresno Home and Garden amusement astatine the Fresno fairgrounds.

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- A gardening instrumentality created successful the Central Valley is revolutionizing the mode we bash yardwork and proving the writer tin beryllium greener.

The Rak-o combines a retractable rake and a hoe but the uses spell beyond that.

"If anyone has done a batch of yardwork you person besides mislaid the hoe oregon the rake successful the information of knocking it retired and erstwhile that got created we looked astatine it and thought what other tin we bash with this," Rak-o creator Marshall Day said.

Marshall Day came up with the conception 20 years agone erstwhile trying to find a elemental hole to timely gait work. He enactment the thought into enactment successful 2008.

"Went and bought a retractable rake and a hula hoe virtually zip tied them unneurotic taped them together. Looked astatine that for a year,"

He perfected the prototype with materials adept Kevin Sagouspe, uncovering a mode to marque it lighter and easier to slide.

"I'm successful the factories bash each of the prime power instrumentality attraction of the problems truthful were not paying a mediate man," Rak-o Co-Founder Kevin Sagouspe said.

Keeping the outgo astatine $49.99.

"You tin propulsion it each the mode backmost its little than 8 inches truthful you tin get the choky small areas successful your plot you tin propulsion it retired to 22 inches positive and get the large areas," Day said.

To observe your hard work, The Rak-o has an attached vessel opener.

Not funny successful handling your pets contributions to the yard? There's a relation for that arsenic well.

"It's a four-in-one instrumentality that saves you a batch of clip and money," Day said.

I decided to enactment the ducky bags to the trial and whitethorn person recovered a 5th usage for the Rak-o arsenic my small canine exemplary recovered the instrumentality rather entertaining.

You tin cheque retired the Rak-o and conscionable Marshall and Kevin astatine the Fresno Home and Garden amusement connected March 1 - 3 astatine the Fresno fairgrounds.

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