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(00:00):
News and the views of Brian Thomas. Monday morning at five on fifty five
krc the talk station. Here isyour ninth first yarding forecast today most of
Sunday sky's high of eighty eight Tonightmost of clear sixty four and on Sunday
sunn and clouds hot ninety two andon Monday, scattered rain showers and thunderstorms,
high of eighty six degrees seven fournine fifty five hundred. Here at
(00:22):
fifty five krc B Talk Station,Good morning, Welcome back. You're in
the garden with Ron Wilson again thattoll free number eight hundred eight two three
eight two fivey five. I wasat a trade show, a huge industry
show, green industry show a coupleof weeks ago called Cultivate, and it's
it's an international show, and youget folks there from all around the world,
(00:45):
and you see a lot of newplants, new plants that are coming
along in the market. You seea lot of new pottery, new greenhouse
ideas and designs, planting machines.I mean, you just see so many
different things, and there's always afew new tools and things that are there
for you to take a look at. As well, so I'm going down
the aisle and I'm looking at allthese things, and all of a sudden,
I see this booth up in frontof me on the right hand side,
(01:07):
and it's surrounded by ten or fifteenpeople all gathered around taking a look
at whatever was inside his booth.So I kind of worked my way up
and worked my way through, andI see this very unique looking tool,
like a garden fork, but ithas a little bit of a different design.
And this gentleman's in there explaining abouthow his new tool, called the
(01:30):
Earthlifter Tool works and helps your back, and everybody's impressed, and I'm impressed,
and I'm looking at it, going, man, I wish I'd thought
of something like that. Well hedid. I didn't, and that's why
he's here today to tell us allabout the Earthlifter Tool. He happens to
be Neil Bevelaqua and he is withus this morning. Good morning, sir,
Hi, Hi Ryan. How youdoing. I am doing great in
(01:52):
yourself, actually pretty good, prettygood. So you asked me whether you
sir all right? Good to haveyou with us, by the way,
So first of all, let's talkabout where you came up with the idea
of the Earthlifter tool. All right, so obviously that could take about fourteen
(02:13):
hours, but we'll make it aswe'll give the highlights, so I think
you can understand. So first ofall, I saw it off as a
math person. I'm a real kindof a big math guy. And then
I went into university and I wasguided by some very brilliant guys and basically
(02:34):
they said to me, Neil,you really have a really a proclivity or
a good background for human factors engineering. And I never heard of it.
And I said, okay, where'sthat? So basically it's it's I was
in a psychology undergraduate was that experimentalpsychology, and I did my a masters
(02:55):
in cognitive and these professors said me, Neil, you really are turned,
you know, made for because ifyou're mechanical, also for human factors.
So human factors is basically psychology,engineering, uh, biomechanics and industrial design.
So okay, so I into thatother masters and the uh it's it's
(03:23):
it opened my eyes to work whatit means to work. Okay, So
that's the basis of it. AndI study work, and I study people's
performance and people's happiness basically doing theirwork. We all work, so and
the garden industry has a lot.Digging in the ground is heavy work.
(03:46):
Yes, So I studied. Istudied how I needed to do something.
You know, if I may goon, I lost I had an accident.
I lost my hand, my dominanthand, and it was tragedy.
It's you know, really, youknow, flip me out. And so
I decided to I wanted to dosomething, and so I did the simplest
(04:12):
thing in the world. I lookedat my potato patch and I said,
I want to lift up those potatoeswith one hand. So that's how it
kind of all started. So interesting. Yeah, so there was a need
for it. There was a need, a need in the sense of for
a thousand years people have been usingSo I studied. Okay, so I
studied digging. I studied what itmeant to do garden work, and people,
(04:39):
everybody who does gardening does work.And so if 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
exercises. You know, you're stretch, you're bending, you're lifting. You
(05:01):
know, if you want a treadmillor a stationary bicycle or even like say
jogging, you're using your muscles inone direction. You're doing the same motion
over and over again. And it'sit's good, you know, call you
evascularly, but when you talk aboutthe entire body, you should be moving
(05:21):
yourself in different ways. So II, you know, once again,
I study work, and after myuniversity, or actually was I was drafted
out of a university to work forbig corporation transforming all the workstations, all
the ways that you know, acouple hundred people did work and I moved
(05:44):
things around you. I put youknow, platforms up in the air.
I want people to be happy andhealthy. So if you are doing something
that hurts yourself, there goes thepsychology part of me says, well,
that's not what the called efficacious.It's not producing a desirable effect, and
you stop doing it. So Iwanted to make a tool that you can
(06:09):
use and actually it makes sense.And you know, there's a quote from
Steve Jobs. Design is not howa tool feels. A tool is not
how it's a design is not howa tool looks. Design is how something
(06:30):
works. So I wanted to makesomething that works, So that was that's
the genesis of this tool. Ineeded to lift potatoes with a two handed
tool with one hand and discovered that, oh wow, it's great for my
back. So so we'll go offthere. And so that's how that's how
the the Earthlifter came about out ofnecessity and of course trying to make things
(06:54):
easier for other gardeners as well,and of course gardening being good for you
as far as health, but itcan also be a on your back.
And of course is many of usget older and we want to continue to
garden, it gets tougher and tougherall the time. So finding these tools
that can help us be a littlebit more effortless or easier on us really
does help. And obviously that's whatthe Earthlifter has done. It's basically a
(07:15):
garden fork with a very very specialdesign. So I'm just curious. You
know, you had the garden fork. How did you come up with the
design? I mean, were therea lot of prototypes you went through?
What was the process there? Okay, so I had this terrible accent.
I almost died bleeding, I almostbled to death, and I had you
(07:35):
know, I've left my hand.You know, I don't get gory with
you, but I was on onehanded and I was devastated, and I
said to myself, well, Iused to work on air traffic control systems,
nuclear power, play de size.I used to work on some very
sophisticated stuff in my university and afterwards. But now I was looking at the
(08:01):
simplest thing in the world, right, digging a hole or or lifting list
Actually it's actually lifting below the earth. So when you think about shoveling or
forking or digging something up, youare going below the earth and you don't
know what's down there actually, soyou could hear a rock or root,
(08:22):
and then the most see my mainbugaboo when I studied the motion, the
actions, the the actual way youuse a shovel or a fork. If
you just visualize yourself, h shovelingsnow. All right, So what is
it You're twisting. You're twisting yourbody, then you're bending over and then
(08:46):
you're kind of stretching even further andjerking something out of the ground with one
hand, something very heavy. Nowyour body can move, and you know
this is biomechanics. Your body canmove in all kinds of different ways.
You know no problem. You're joinedto men to move in multi level multi
ways, but not under loads,not when there's weight when you when you
(09:09):
are trying to move something with yourwrists, where your elbow or your back
in the wrong orientation, the wrongposture. Think about weight lifting, you
know you gotta be you gotta keepyour spine straight. So shoveling and forking,
let's the same use. The sameway is a twisting bending motion where
(09:30):
you are jerking up weight against gravity. So I looked at that and I
studied that. Okay, So Istarted in twenty twelve. It took me
uh ten years wow to figurette tofigure oute. Okay, I'm a I'm
a math. You know, I'mvery gifted in math and geometry, geometry
(09:50):
especially. So I'm looking at thisthing. I'm saying, oh, uh,
how can I do this with onehand? And you know, I
thought, well, arkimedia, youknow, you know of a lever and
fulcrum. Then I said to myself, oh, Pythagoras with a with the
curve. See, I studied.I looked real hard for years at I
(10:13):
thought myself as a plant. Andif I was a plant, and I
was, I had I'd want tobe lifted up vertically, not torn out
on a diagonal you do with ashovel. So if you do that and
you are able to shake the rootsas you're doing it, and if you
are able to push down the basicallymy tool reverses the physics of lifting.
(10:41):
So basically the tool is the tool. The definition of a tool is something
that gives you a mechanical advantage.So the design of that curve is actually
it's called the rolling folkrum. Soit's a it's a pivot, but it's
a ark pivot. It's a bigspace. It's that point and it rolls.
(11:03):
It moves, so as it moves, it makes a lifting motion in
the underground, and so the plantor the roots come straight up. So
you have control because you're pushing downand the tool, the tool is doing
the work. I was gonna say, we have take have to take a
(11:24):
break here real quick, so wecome Just hang on with that thought.
It's called the Earthlifter tool. Ifyou want to check it out during the
break, just go to earthlifter dotcom. You'll see what we're talking about
there. We'll come back. We'llhave talking more about this great tool.
It's a garden fork on that reallymakes it easy for you working in the
yard and garden. And we'll learnmore about it after the break. Here
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KRC DE talkstation. Welcome back.You're in the garden with Ron Wilson.
It was the head of the showCultivate up in Columbus a couple of weeks
ago. Is called the Earthlifter toolfor easier digging. It's the type of
(13:43):
thing you look at and say,man, I wish I would have thought
of that or invented Datta came upwith it. Well, uh, this
gentleman did, as Neil Beveloqua,And we're talking about how he came up
with the earthlifter, And you cango to the website. It's earthlifter dot
com. Earthlifter dot com and thistool. I tell you, you know,
the first thing I thought of,Neil was when I first saw you
(14:05):
doing this. You know, theinterest in raised bed gardening and you know,
you know, and no till gardening, and how this tool makes it
so much easier to go through andjust to crack or break the soil without
really tilling the soil. Boy,that's perfect for that. Like I said,
raised beds are in regular vegetable gardens. So you know what I was
(14:31):
saying before about I look at bigpicture things and think about the industry,
the gardening industry, and what iswhat is the problem or what is the
let's say, the trepidations or thehesitancy about gardening and gardening. You know,
it's heavy, it's hard, itcan hurt, you know. You
(14:54):
know, if you look at thestatistics, very six percent of all the
medical costs are have to do withlower back problems. So besides doing a
making it easy is this thing hasa four to one mechanical advantage, which
means that if you have eighty poundsin the ground worth of a bush or
(15:16):
or stumps or rocks, you needonly twenty pounds of pressure to pick it
up. So by doing that,you know and once again to get into
the education part, my doctor workwas economics of engineering. So how does
the industry? Let's think big picture. If you are in the garden or
(15:39):
the horticulture industry, what is yourbiggest expense? What is the real big
expense? The biggest expense expense ispeople and and you you have either the
business aspect like landscaping guys, oreven in your backyard let's call it.
You have it's time. Your timeand your effort are are expensive. And
(16:03):
if you are feeling good and youare happy about what you're doing, you're
going to do more of it.So what is the problem. What I
see, what I solve is theproblem is actually the primitive tools that we've
used for a thousand years of youknow, shovels and forks. And it's
not that the shovels and forks arebanned or anything. It's just that they're
(16:25):
not meant for the job that theydo. A shovel should transfer material.
Digging is a different animal. It'slike using a screwdriver with the pounds and
nail. Okay, you could doit, but it's not really. And
then you speaking of you know,if you have a screwdriver, you know,
twenty years ago you you would besitting there trying to screw one hundred
(16:48):
screws with a hand screwdriver, butnow you have a screw gun, right
right, So tools evolved, Imean or this, well, this tool
is an evolution from a simple basicstick in your hands jerking up heavy weight
below the ground to something that isactually it's it's closer to a machine.
(17:08):
Machine means that it has mechanical advantage. So this tool will make your life
a whole lot easier. But it'sit's also you mentioned that, yeah,
tilling. It's it's great for tillingbecause I use I studied it against broadbalks,
and it's it's fast and easier andmore fun. Right, and so
(17:30):
you know, so you you shouldbe air rating. I have twenty nine
I grow a lot of stuff.I mean, I have nineteen different culture
VARs, gallocks. Wow, whodoes that? Right? You do?
But it's a hobby. It's ahobby. I grow at eighteen hundred heads
and I you know, and Igrow fital nutrient potatoes, all right.
(17:52):
So that's that's something that's going tobe coming up to. You know,
my wife and I both study nutrition, and we study uh, you know,
we have thousands of flowers and blueberriesand blah blah blah. So we
we do it. You know,we're out there and and in the garden,
in your beds, you're gonna haveclay soil, you're gonna have rocks,
(18:15):
and you're gonna have weeds, plusyou know, other roots and stumps.
And so I said to myself,well, I said I when I
saw this thing for my lifting potatoes, I said, wow, it can
also lift weeds, It can letit can look, it can take care
of a lot of the problems.And the psychology of it is that if
it's fun, you're gonna do it. Or if it's not onerous, or
(18:37):
it's not it's not painful, you'regonna do so. So that's the kind
of the big picture thing is thatthe garden industry has to think about the
workers and the workers who are injureddon't buy fertilizer, and they don't buy
plants. You know, Well,let's get let's get down the dirty.
(18:59):
Got about two minutes to go.So if folks, folks are more interested
in the Earthlifter tool, of course, I can go to your website earthlifter
dot com. Now you can.You can buy that on your website.
But there are also garden centers thatare starting to sell this as well.
Correct. Yes, yes, uh, a bunch are a bunch. More
(19:21):
than a few are buying it,and and and no, you know,
it's interesting. It's one of thebest tools in the world for uh.
Values. Values are a really interestingplant and you have to lift them out
of the ground because they're tropical basicallydon't need So people don't want to be
buying values because you have to liftthem out of the ground. So it's
(19:44):
good for you know, uh peoplewho are doing you know, like market
farming. There's a lot of guysdoing you know, growing stuff and selling
them on the you know, youknow, in the farmer's market kind of
thing. It's good for a guy. Yes, they has thirty acres or
something of lilies and people, sowe're selling them to uh seed catalogs.
(20:06):
Let's call it as a as adrop ship item. And there's a bunch
of really high, you know,very nice garden scenters that are seeing that
people are getting old. Yep,hey, we got we're running out of
time. It's called Earthlifter toool.Go to their website earthlifter dot com Neo
Beveloqua. I appreciate you spending timethis morning. Great tool. I think
(20:29):
you really hit this one on thehead. Does a great job again.
Learn more about it at earthlifter dotcom. That's earthlifter dot com. Thank
you, sir for spending time withus this morning. All right, thanks,
thank you, all right, takecare earthlifter dot com. That's earthlifter
dot com. And you can orderit there or find out what the garden
centers where you can find as well. If you do, I'll tell you
(20:51):
what raise beds for breaking up thesoil. That thing's there. If you
are doing a small hobby gardening inthat farms where you are raising values and
tours and all the time, Ithink garlic or whatever. This thing is
gonna save you a lot when itcomes to back ache down the road.
It's a great tool, all right. Quick Break, we come back.
Phone lines are open for you ateight hundred eight two three eight two five
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(21:18):
Call Ron now at one eight hundredeighty two three. Talk you're listening
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News and the views of Brian Thomas. Monday morning at five on fifty five
krc the talk station. Here isyour ninth first yarding forecast today most of
Sunday sky's high of eighty eight Tonightmost of clear sixty four and on Sunday
sunn and clouds hot ninety two andon Monday, scattered rain showers and thunderstorms,
high of eighty six degrees seven fournine fifty five hundred. Here at
(00:22):
fifty five krc B Talk Station,Good morning, Welcome back. You're in
the garden with Ron Wilson again thattoll free number eight hundred eight two three
eight two fivey five. I wasat a trade show, a huge industry
show, green industry show a coupleof weeks ago called Cultivate, and it's
it's an international show, and youget folks there from all around the world,
(00:45):
and you see a lot of newplants, new plants that are coming
along in the market. You seea lot of new pottery, new greenhouse
ideas and designs, planting machines.I mean, you just see so many
different things, and there's always afew new tools and things that are there
for you to take a look at. As well, so I'm going down
the aisle and I'm looking at allthese things, and all of a sudden,
I see this booth up in frontof me on the right hand side,
(01:07):
and it's surrounded by ten or fifteenpeople all gathered around taking a look
at whatever was inside his booth.So I kind of worked my way up
and worked my way through, andI see this very unique looking tool,
like a garden fork, but ithas a little bit of a different design.
And this gentleman's in there explaining abouthow his new tool, called the
(01:30):
Earthlifter Tool works and helps your back, and everybody's impressed, and I'm impressed,
and I'm looking at it, going, man, I wish I'd thought
of something like that. Well hedid. I didn't, and that's why
he's here today to tell us allabout the Earthlifter Tool. He happens to
be Neil Bevelaqua and he is withus this morning. Good morning, sir,
Hi, Hi Ryan. How youdoing. I am doing great in
(01:52):
yourself, actually pretty good, prettygood. So you asked me whether you
sir all right? Good to haveyou with us, by the way,
So first of all, let's talkabout where you came up with the idea
of the Earthlifter tool. All right, so obviously that could take about fourteen
(02:13):
hours, but we'll make it aswe'll give the highlights, so I think
you can understand. So first ofall, I saw it off as a
math person. I'm a real kindof a big math guy. And then
I went into university and I wasguided by some very brilliant guys and basically
(02:34):
they said to me, Neil,you really have a really a proclivity or
a good background for human factors engineering. And I never heard of it.
And I said, okay, where'sthat? So basically it's it's I was
in a psychology undergraduate was that experimentalpsychology, and I did my a masters
(02:55):
in cognitive and these professors said me, Neil, you really are turned,
you know, made for because ifyou're mechanical, also for human factors.
So human factors is basically psychology,engineering, uh, biomechanics and industrial design.
So okay, so I into thatother masters and the uh it's it's
(03:23):
it opened my eyes to work whatit means to work. Okay, So
that's the basis of it. AndI study work, and I study people's
performance and people's happiness basically doing theirwork. We all work, so and
the garden industry has a lot.Digging in the ground is heavy work.
(03:46):
Yes, So I studied. Istudied how I needed to do something.
You know, if I may goon, I lost I had an accident.
I lost my hand, my dominanthand, and it was tragedy.
It's you know, really, youknow, flip me out. And so
I decided to I wanted to dosomething, and so I did the simplest
(04:12):
thing in the world. I lookedat my potato patch and I said,
I want to lift up those potatoeswith one hand. So that's how it
kind of all started. So interesting. Yeah, so there was a need
for it. There was a need, a need in the sense of for
a thousand years people have been usingSo I studied. Okay, so I
studied digging. I studied what itmeant to do garden work, and people,
(04:39):
everybody who does gardening does work.And so if 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
exercises. You know, you're stretch, you're bending, you're lifting. You
(05:01):
know, if you want a treadmillor a stationary bicycle or even like say
jogging, you're using your muscles inone direction. You're doing the same motion
over and over again. And it'sit's good, you know, call you
evascularly, but when you talk aboutthe entire body, you should be moving
(05:21):
yourself in different ways. So II, you know, once again,
I study work, and after myuniversity, or actually was I was drafted
out of a university to work forbig corporation transforming all the workstations, all
the ways that you know, acouple hundred people did work and I moved
(05:44):
things around you. I put youknow, platforms up in the air.
I want people to be happy andhealthy. So if you are doing something
that hurts yourself, there goes thepsychology part of me says, well,
that's not what the called efficacious.It's not producing a desirable effect, and
you stop doing it. So Iwanted to make a tool that you can
(06:09):
use and actually it makes sense.And you know, there's a quote from
Steve Jobs. Design is not howa tool feels. A tool is not
how it's a design is not howa tool looks. Design is how something
(06:30):
works. So I wanted to makesomething that works, So that was that's
the genesis of this tool. Ineeded to lift potatoes with a two handed
tool with one hand and discovered that, oh wow, it's great for my
back. So so we'll go offthere. And so that's how that's how
the the Earthlifter came about out ofnecessity and of course trying to make things
(06:54):
easier for other gardeners as well,and of course gardening being good for you
as far as health, but itcan also be a on your back.
And of course is many of usget older and we want to continue to
garden, it gets tougher and tougherall the time. So finding these tools
that can help us be a littlebit more effortless or easier on us really
does help. And obviously that's whatthe Earthlifter has done. It's basically a
(07:15):
garden fork with a very very specialdesign. So I'm just curious. You
know, you had the garden fork. How did you come up with the
design? I mean, were therea lot of prototypes you went through?
What was the process there? Okay, so I had this terrible accent.
I almost died bleeding, I almostbled to death, and I had you
(07:35):
know, I've left my hand.You know, I don't get gory with
you, but I was on onehanded and I was devastated, and I
said to myself, well, Iused to work on air traffic control systems,
nuclear power, play de size.I used to work on some very
sophisticated stuff in my university and afterwards. But now I was looking at the
(08:01):
simplest thing in the world, right, digging a hole or or lifting list
Actually it's actually lifting below the earth. So when you think about shoveling or
forking or digging something up, youare going below the earth and you don't
know what's down there actually, soyou could hear a rock or root,
(08:22):
and then the most see my mainbugaboo when I studied the motion, the
actions, the the actual way youuse a shovel or a fork. If
you just visualize yourself, h shovelingsnow. All right, So what is
it You're twisting. You're twisting yourbody, then you're bending over and then
(08:46):
you're kind of stretching even further andjerking something out of the ground with one
hand, something very heavy. Nowyour body can move, and you know
this is biomechanics. Your body canmove in all kinds of different ways.
You know no problem. You're joinedto men to move in multi level multi
ways, but not under loads,not when there's weight when you when you
(09:09):
are trying to move something with yourwrists, where your elbow or your back
in the wrong orientation, the wrongposture. Think about weight lifting, you
know you gotta be you gotta keepyour spine straight. So shoveling and forking,
let's the same use. The sameway is a twisting bending motion where
(09:30):
you are jerking up weight against gravity. So I looked at that and I
studied that. Okay, So Istarted in twenty twelve. It took me
uh ten years wow to figurette tofigure oute. Okay, I'm a I'm
a math. You know, I'mvery gifted in math and geometry, geometry
(09:50):
especially. So I'm looking at thisthing. I'm saying, oh, uh,
how can I do this with onehand? And you know, I
thought, well, arkimedia, youknow, you know of a lever and
fulcrum. Then I said to myself, oh, Pythagoras with a with the
curve. See, I studied.I looked real hard for years at I
(10:13):
thought myself as a plant. Andif I was a plant, and I
was, I had I'd want tobe lifted up vertically, not torn out
on a diagonal you do with ashovel. So if you do that and
you are able to shake the rootsas you're doing it, and if you
are able to push down the basicallymy tool reverses the physics of lifting.
(10:41):
So basically the tool is the tool. The definition of a tool is something
that gives you a mechanical advantage.So the design of that curve is actually
it's called the rolling folkrum. Soit's a it's a pivot, but it's
a ark pivot. It's a bigspace. It's that point and it rolls.
(11:03):
It moves, so as it moves, it makes a lifting motion in
the underground, and so the plantor the roots come straight up. So
you have control because you're pushing downand the tool, the tool is doing
the work. I was gonna say, we have take have to take a
(11:24):
break here real quick, so wecome Just hang on with that thought.
It's called the Earthlifter tool. Ifyou want to check it out during the
break, just go to earthlifter dotcom. You'll see what we're talking about
there. We'll come back. We'llhave talking more about this great tool.
It's a garden fork on that reallymakes it easy for you working in the
yard and garden. And we'll learnmore about it after the break. Here
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KRC DE talkstation. Welcome back.You're in the garden with Ron Wilson.
It was the head of the showCultivate up in Columbus a couple of weeks
ago. Is called the Earthlifter toolfor easier digging. It's the type of
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thing you look at and say,man, I wish I would have thought
of that or invented Datta came upwith it. Well, uh, this
gentleman did, as Neil Beveloqua,And we're talking about how he came up
with the earthlifter, And you cango to the website. It's earthlifter dot
com. Earthlifter dot com and thistool. I tell you, you know,
the first thing I thought of,Neil was when I first saw you
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doing this. You know, theinterest in raised bed gardening and you know,
you know, and no till gardening, and how this tool makes it
so much easier to go through andjust to crack or break the soil without
really tilling the soil. Boy,that's perfect for that. Like I said,
raised beds are in regular vegetable gardens. So you know what I was
(14:31):
saying before about I look at bigpicture things and think about the industry,
the gardening industry, and what iswhat is the problem or what is the
let's say, the trepidations or thehesitancy about gardening and gardening. You know,
it's heavy, it's hard, itcan hurt, you know. You
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know, if you look at thestatistics, very six percent of all the
medical costs are have to do withlower back problems. So besides doing a
making it easy is this thing hasa four to one mechanical advantage, which
means that if you have eighty poundsin the ground worth of a bush or
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or stumps or rocks, you needonly twenty pounds of pressure to pick it
up. So by doing that,you know and once again to get into
the education part, my doctor workwas economics of engineering. So how does
the industry? Let's think big picture. If you are in the garden or
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the horticulture industry, what is yourbiggest expense? What is the real big
expense? The biggest expense expense ispeople and and you you have either the
business aspect like landscaping guys, oreven in your backyard let's call it.
You have it's time. Your timeand your effort are are expensive. And
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if you are feeling good and youare happy about what you're doing, you're
going to do more of it.So what is the problem. What I
see, what I solve is theproblem is actually the primitive tools that we've
used for a thousand years of youknow, shovels and forks. And it's
not that the shovels and forks arebanned or anything. It's just that they're
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not meant for the job that theydo. A shovel should transfer material.
Digging is a different animal. It'slike using a screwdriver with the pounds and
nail. Okay, you could doit, but it's not really. And
then you speaking of you know,if you have a screwdriver, you know,
twenty years ago you you would besitting there trying to screw one hundred
(16:48):
screws with a hand screwdriver, butnow you have a screw gun, right
right, So tools evolved, Imean or this, well, this tool
is an evolution from a simple basicstick in your hands jerking up heavy weight
below the ground to something that isactually it's it's closer to a machine.
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Machine means that it has mechanical advantage. So this tool will make your life
a whole lot easier. But it'sit's also you mentioned that, yeah,
tilling. It's it's great for tillingbecause I use I studied it against broadbalks,
and it's it's fast and easier andmore fun. Right, and so
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you know, so you you shouldbe air rating. I have twenty nine
I grow a lot of stuff.I mean, I have nineteen different culture
VARs, gallocks. Wow, whodoes that? Right? You do?
But it's a hobby. It's ahobby. I grow at eighteen hundred heads
and I you know, and Igrow fital nutrient potatoes, all right.
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So that's that's something that's going tobe coming up to. You know,
my wife and I both study nutrition, and we study uh, you know,
we have thousands of flowers and blueberriesand blah blah blah. So we
we do it. You know,we're out there and and in the garden,
in your beds, you're gonna haveclay soil, you're gonna have rocks,
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and you're gonna have weeds, plusyou know, other roots and stumps.
And so I said to myself,well, I said I when I
saw this thing for my lifting potatoes, I said, wow, it can
also lift weeds, It can letit can look, it can take care
of a lot of the problems.And the psychology of it is that if
it's fun, you're gonna do it. Or if it's not onerous, or
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it's not it's not painful, you'regonna do so. So that's the kind
of the big picture thing is thatthe garden industry has to think about the
workers and the workers who are injureddon't buy fertilizer, and they don't buy
plants. You know, Well,let's get let's get down the dirty.
(18:59):
Got about two minutes to go.So if folks, folks are more interested
in the Earthlifter tool, of course, I can go to your website earthlifter
dot com. Now you can.You can buy that on your website.
But there are also garden centers thatare starting to sell this as well.
Correct. Yes, yes, uh, a bunch are a bunch. More
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than a few are buying it,and and and no, you know,
it's interesting. It's one of thebest tools in the world for uh.
Values. Values are a really interestingplant and you have to lift them out
of the ground because they're tropical basicallydon't need So people don't want to be
buying values because you have to liftthem out of the ground. So it's
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good for you know, uh peoplewho are doing you know, like market
farming. There's a lot of guysdoing you know, growing stuff and selling
them on the you know, youknow, in the farmer's market kind of
thing. It's good for a guy. Yes, they has thirty acres or
something of lilies and people, sowe're selling them to uh seed catalogs.
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Let's call it as a as adrop ship item. And there's a bunch
of really high, you know,very nice garden scenters that are seeing that
people are getting old. Yep,hey, we got we're running out of
time. It's called Earthlifter toool.Go to their website earthlifter dot com Neo
Beveloqua. I appreciate you spending timethis morning. Great tool. I think
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you really hit this one on thehead. Does a great job again.
Learn more about it at earthlifter dotcom. That's earthlifter dot com. Thank
you, sir for spending time withus this morning. All right, thanks,
thank you, all right, takecare earthlifter dot com. That's earthlifter
dot com. And you can orderit there or find out what the garden
centers where you can find as well. If you do, I'll tell you
(20:51):
what raise beds for breaking up thesoil. That thing's there. If you
are doing a small hobby gardening inthat farms where you are raising values and
tours and all the time, Ithink garlic or whatever. This thing is
gonna save you a lot when itcomes to back ache down the road.
It's a great tool, all right. Quick Break, we come back.
Phone lines are open for you ateight hundred eight two three eight two five
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