Lawn aerators
easimo 116-001
The only tool on this shelf that removes soil instead of displacing it, with a cleaning rod for the tines.
The only one on this shelf that takes soil away
Five of the six products here push something solid into the ground.
This one is a tube. It goes in, and it comes out with a plug of soil in it.
That single difference is the reason this page exists, and it is worth more
words than the tool’s unpublished dimensions.
Displacing versus removing
Push a solid spike into a soil and the soil that was there has to go somewhere.
It goes sideways and downward, into the walls of the hole.
On a sandy or light soil that is unimportant. The grains move, the hole
stays open, water gets in.
On a compacted clay, especially a wet one, it is the problem you were
trying to fix. The hole drains; the ring of clay around it is now denser than
it was. Do it across a whole lawn and you have made a field of drains through a
slightly harder pan.
A hollow tine removes the volume. What comes out is gone, and what is left is a
real void that the surrounding soil can expand into over the next few weeks.
That is what relieving compaction means.
The second thing this listing gets right.
Getting a hollow tine to depth in dry clay takes real force, and arms are not
how you supply it. A foot plate lets you stand on the tool and put your body
weight through it, which is both more force and less back.
Every hollow-tine aerator worth using has one. This listing names it and
describes what it is for.
The cleaning rod, which is not a bonus
Hollow tines block. That is their one failure mode and it is not occasional —
it happens within a dozen presses in damp soil.
A blocked tube stops cutting a core and starts pushing soil aside, which turns
the expensive tool into the cheap one. Clearing it means pushing the plug out
from the top, and the listing includes the rod that does it.
Anyone who has used a hollow-tine fork without one knows what the alternative
is: a screwdriver, a fence post, and swearing.
What goes unpublished
No tine count. No tine length. No width.
That is four missing numbers on a tool whose entire performance is tines ×
depth, and it is the same gap as the rest of this shelf: two of six products
publish a depth, one publishes a width, and this one publishes neither.
It is also the product here with the clearest idea of what it is for, which is
the trade this page reports rather than resolves.
And the honest cost
Hollow-tining is slow.
A press, a lift, a step, a press. Nobody does a whole lawn this way and enjoys
it; what this tool is genuinely for is the compacted parts — the line where
everyone walks, the patch by the gate, the strip beside the path.
For those, it is the right tool on this shelf and nothing else here
substitutes.
Availability
Around 37 €, read at the German Amazon store on the day of the survey.
Listed and unsold: the American, British, French, Italian and Spanish Amazon catalogues hold the reference with nobody behind it.
Taken from Keepa on the day this page was last revised; stock and prices move without notice.
Prices quoted in this text were read on 26 September 2026. The live price is at the top of the page.
