Garden tools

Garden tools with short handle
User digs in balcony container
User digs in balcony container

Garden tools with short easy-grip handle. Used for balcony containers. The user holds them with both hands and supports himself by leaning his elbows on the balcony container.

Users comments
The user feels the tools are a little too heavy, the handle is a little too thick, but they work for him.

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Garden supply shops

Paid for by
The user

Short-handled spade
Short-handled spade
Short-handled hand rake
Short-handled hand rake

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Author: PO

PO hade en tetraplegi med motorisk genomslag. Han kunde ställa sig upp på benen vid förflyttningar. Avliden.
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Type of disability

Motor incomplete tetraplegia (C2-Th1)

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