Made of heavy-duty yet light stainless steel, that will serve your lawn a lifetime. The tubes and bar connections have quality and sturdy welds. The aerator features a “The “T”-shaped handle is convenient to grip and provides a more comfortable stance while aerating. Broad foot bar provides abundant leverage reducing the required effort. Aerator features 2 parallel steel tubes with conic tips that penetrate the soil smoothly and extract the 3-inch plugs, creating holes in the lawn turf, helping air, water, and fertilizer to better penetrate the ground. It makes the soil less dense and compact and adds a layer of top-dressing to your lawn. To use Varomorus Lawn Aerator simply place the aerator’s tines on top of the soil, insert your foot to the foot-bar and step straight down. Then remove by lifting it straight up. Move the aerator forward about 8 inches and repeat. Aerator removes cores on top of the lawn surface thus providing a reach source of organic material for your lawn. Fertilizing right after you aerate your lawn is the best way for you to get good penetration. You should also aerate the soil before putting down new sod. It will help it to come in a lot faster. Varomorus Aerator will aerate and loosen the soil in your lawn. Aeration reduces soil compaction, oxidizes it and allows the roots to uptake the appropriate water and nutrients and grow as vigorous as possible the soil is perforated with small holes to allow air, water and other nutrients to reach deeper. If not aerated, compacted soil can prevent proper lawn growth, and the grass becomes more prone to diseases and insect invasions. When you aerate lawn, you pull up beneficial bacteria from under the soil that can help break down thatch that is on top of the surface of the soil. Made of stainless steel.