What Lawn Equipment Do You Need

Whether you’re a professional landscaper, a home owner, or any commercial property owner, you know that beautiful landscaping boosts your property value while making it more esthetically pleasing. Hitch City carries the landscaping equipment that have made many Greater Toronto Area (GTA) properties beautiful and has for over 35 years.

When it comes to landscaping tools the choices can be virtually endless, and increasingly expensive as modern manufacturers annually offer the latest and greatest tool to do what hoes and shovels have done for thousands of years.

Fortunately, Hitch City’s locations in Barrie, Mississauga, and in Scarborough carry the superior products from well-known brands that offer you the long-lasting durability you need to sculpt your landscape just the way you want.

Personal Protective Equipment To Keep On Hand

It is also important to consider safety around landscaping equipment like gloves, knee pads, and eye protection but don’t forget sunscreen, to stay hydrated, and take frequent breaks if you are not used to strenuous exercise. If you’re new to the joys of landscape gardening, or simply are looking to round out your tool section, here is our list of the top must haves to maintain and improve your property.

Long-Handled Tools to Maintain Your Property

Let’s begin with the world of long-handled tools that dig, spread, and gather including the:

• • Round point shovel - this versatile landscape tool has a rounded and beveled steel blade that ends in a point. It digs, scoops, and slices through dirt, manure, and gravel;
• • Flat border spade – has a blade that is parallel to the handle and is often used to edge beds and uproot grass. A manual or automatic edger can also creates a neat and clear separation between the lawn and adjacent surfaces (such as driveways) and around trees or flowerbeds;
• • Hand trowel - used for digging small holes to plant seedlings and bulbs for borders and gardens;
• • Hoe - This digging and spreading tool has the blade at a right angle to a long handle. The shape and sharpness of blades vary, making some hoes better for slicing weed roots (gooseneck hoe), and others for breaking up soil (garden hoe), and
• • Rake - a metal-toothed landscaping rake is used to move dirt, separate rock from soil, and spread mulch, while a leaf rake gathers leaves, grass clippings, and other debris on the surface of your lawn.

Other Important Landscaping Equipment to Have In Your Garage

Then there are the tools for cutting, pruning, and trimming:

• • Shears - a hand-held tool that cuts and trims including small bypass shears for roses, hedge shears for boxwoods, and looping shears for small tree limbs;
• • Saws – a manual or a gas or electric chainsaw is good for cutting wood, downed tree limbs, big branches, and trees. Consider taking safety training before suing a chainsaw if inexperienced – you don’t want to drop a tree on your home; and the
• • Lawn mower – choose from manual, battery, electric, or gas-powered lawn cutters are pushed or ridden, self-propelled, or hand-propelled with most being able to bag clippings.

Finally, no well-manicured property would be complete without a wheelbarrow: metal or plastic, wheelbarrows move soil, plants, hay - basically anything that fits and needs moving.

Plan Your Shopping List for a Hitch City Location in the Greater Toronto Area

At Hitch City, our wide selection ensures that customers get what they need when they need it at the best possible prices. Contact Hitch City in Mississauga at 905-625-4664, in Barrie at 705-792-9204 or in Scarborough at 416-299-4960 today. Our helpful staff will ensure that you get the landscaping tools and equipment you need.