Manually by hand

The phrase manually by hand is a redundancy. The adverb manually means by hand, so by hand adds nothing. 

Examples

In these examples, the writers could remove either manually or by hand with no loss of meaning:

It is a well known treatment for cellulite and can be conducted manually by hand or specially designed anti-cellulite machines. [Best Cellulite Treatments]

You can separate the worms from the compost manually by hand . . . [Echo Gardening]

Project monitoring and controlling is done either manually by hand and using paper . . . [Bright Hub]

The target pulleys need to be pulled back and forth manually by hand before and after each shot thus making things difficult. [ESPN Star]

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