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Handy gardening tools.
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04-03-2021 11:35am#1
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I bought this in Homebase recently and it is endlessly useful. I suffer a lot with wild garlic so a long nifty weeding tool essential.
https://www.spear-and-jackson.com/products/garden-tools-outdoor-living/traditional-stainless/garden-hand-tools/planting-and-weeding
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I bought this in Homebase recently and it is endlessly useful. I suffer a lot with wild garlic so a long nifty weeding tool essential.
https://www.spear-and-jackson.com/products/garden-tools-outdoor-living/traditional-stainless/garden-hand-tools/planting-and-weeding
When that breaks get a builders pointing trowel and file/grind a notch in the end of it. There's a quality of steel in a decent builders trowel that is hard to find in most garden tools.Wake me up when it's all over.
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The Continental Op wrote: »I'd go back to them but I liked their range before the interchangeable tools.
I still have a couple of the old style where you got a good quality wooden handle painted yellow that you could tap onto the tool you were using. I don't think they were supposed to be interchangeable as such but you had the choice of handle type/length that you attached to the tool. Ancient history now probably 15 years or more since I last saw them.
Edit> I think they used to be called something like Wolf Tap Tight Tools?
I've been using the interchangeable for over 25 years & I don't remember the old style
The link is definitely the weak point but I love the versatility. The Push Pull Weeder is a superb tool.0 -
I've been using the interchangeable for over 25 years & I don't remember the old style
The link is definitely the weak point but I love the versatility. The Push Pull Weeder is a superb tool.
They were a cheaper version of the range. I think that was back when Black and Decker owned the brand name, they split off long ago. Google can't even find me a picture of the old tools.
Another old Wolf tool I've remembered is the Wolf Terrex Auto Spade.
I did find one of the "Tap Tight" if thats what they were called in ebay https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/284203012242Wake me up when it's all over.
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I have my eye on a lawn leveling lute https://www.ebay.ie/itm/Level-rake-garten-levelawn-lawn-rasen-topdressing/324498266868
Expensive but if I can get some decent topsoil delivered this year I will finally get around to making the lawn level.
It works by going over the high spots and leaving the soil in the hollows. Once you have a really good level lawn you can use it to work sand, fine soil and compost into the sward to improve it. On a really good lawn you would hardly know you'd put anything on it by the time you had worked it in with a lawn lute.
Much wider ones are used on golf greens to get them perfectly level.Wake me up when it's all over.
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Brilliant idea for a thread, thanks RA! Looks like a great gadget too but I couldn’t stop laughing at their tip/‘warning’....
Mightn’t be too effective on my clay quarry of a garden I might as well start up my own pottery business :pac: :pac:0 -
SnowyMuckish wrote: »Brilliant idea for a thread, thanks RA! Looks like a great gadget too but I couldn’t stop laughing at their tip/‘warning’....
Mightn’t be too effective on my clay quarry of a garden I might as well start up my own pottery business :pac: :pac:
I've just the tool for you then
I was just going to post about it anyway.
I'll post several pictures which should give the idea.
Now none of those is exactly what I'm on about. What you need is the shorter prong length of the E A Bowles fork (last photo) and a really short handle. The tool only needs to be 2 ft from tyne tip to top of handle. Then used when you are nealt down you have a hand fork on steroids. Just as useful for deep seated docks as removing a bit of herbaceous perenial for propagation.
Now while I'm at it I'll also add another tool or rather a useful duplicate. A second garden fork here's why...
Wake me up when it's all over.
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The Continental Op wrote: »btw I'm not recommending the Wolf Terrex Auto Spade to anyone!
Always wanted to try one
Re: Mattocks. I bought a mattock head from B&Q & then cut off the axe part. I matched it to a yellow fibreglass handle from B&Q. It's a perfect tool. It can be used one handed for planting & then swung two handed for roots etc.
I have a nice Hori Hori but I actually prefer to use this.
https://www.amazon.com/Fiskars-Grip-Garden-Knife-70796935J/dp/B000F95CZY0 -
The Continental Op wrote: »I have my eye on a lawn leveling lute https://www.ebay.ie/itm/Level-rake-garten-levelawn-lawn-rasen-topdressing/324498266868
Expensive but if I can get some decent topsoil delivered this year I will finally get around to making the lawn level.
It works by going over the high spots and leaving the soil in the hollows. Once you have a really good level lawn you can use it to work sand, fine soil and compost into the sward to improve it. On a really good lawn you would hardly know you'd put anything on it by the time you had worked it in with a lawn lute.
Much wider ones are used on golf greens to get them perfectly level.
I've toyed with making one due to the expense of them!
Btw, they make ground flat, not necessarily level!
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SouthWesterly wrote: »Wild garlic. tell me where you live
Have you ever seen how it can completely take over a garden and become almost impossible to eradicate?Wake me up when it's all over.
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The tool prices on some of those garden sites are eye watering
I made a soil sieve that sits on top of my wheelbarrow. There is a frame and a box that slides on top. I can drop different mesh sizes into the frame.
I only use it 3-4 times a season, but it saves so much time. You get lovely fluffy aerated clean soil in the barrow.0 -
The tool prices on some of those garden sites are eye watering
I made a soil sieve that sits on top of my wheelbarrow. There is a frame and a box that slides on top. I can drop different mesh sizes into the frame.
I only use it 3-4 times a season, but it saves so much time. You get lovely fluffy aerated clean soil in the barrow.
I've done the same. I've made several and have some add hoc ones probably the most useful is an old galvanised bread crate with half inch mesh which is great for removing large stones and turfy lumps.
At its simplest I have a bit of an old oyster bed net (found on beach very heavy duty black plastic netting) with iirc about 4mm square holes that I lay across the barrow and it just has strips of wood screwed together at either end.
Without the finese of you shakeable box I find they all work best with small shovel loads. They totally fail if you load them up.Wake me up when it's all over.
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