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Stronger trowel

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  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    As often as not it's not the fault of the tool being used as that of the tool using it.  I've seen people attempting to renovate a plot, shoving a fork or spade in to its full depth and then heaving back on the handle.  Then they complain when the handle breaks.
    I'm not suggesting that is what is happening to @jonathan.cole as I have seen a lot of rubbish hand tools.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I always make sure that the hand tools that I buy are made out of one chunk of metal.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • LoxleyLoxley Posts: 5,698
    Loxley said:
    I've had this for a week now, and it seems very strong, very happy with it.


    It bent after a couple of months lol
    "What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbour". 
  • IlikeplantsIlikeplants Posts: 894
    Some of my plastic trowels are really strong, lasted years, those with wooden handles have been the first to go.
  • jonathan.colejonathan.cole Posts: 221
    Right, well, if people are determined to resurrect a tread from a year ago I'll let you know the DeWit Bad Ass trowel I bought is still going.

    And as KT53 said I probably mistreated it, but why fix my bad habits when I can buy a trowel with an inch thick metal handle and go to town!
  • meger72887meger72887 Posts: 1
    Homes Garden Hand Trowel is an excellent piece for troweling. 
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    I have a Wolf trowel which is quite curved so good as a small shovel but I prefer my Sneeboer for planting things as it is sharper.

    However, in dry periods our ground can hard work and the weed roots almost impossible to get through even with the Sneeboer is I recently bought a Root Slayer and it's brilliant.  So good I've bought the spade sized version too
    https://www.amazon.fr/Radius-Garden-Slayer-Truelle-dentelée/dp/B07FYKWGZV/ref=asc_df_B07FYKWGZV/?tag=googshopfr-21&linkCode=df0&hvadid=454717764846&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=13620129195875246767&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9111473&hvtargid=pla-488081269390&psc=1  
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • LoxleyLoxley Posts: 5,698
    It's useful to resurrect the thread with good or bad experiences after a year, I shall look out for the Bad-Ass trowel and the Rootslayer! 

    I did end up getting an unbranded serrated trowel, it's formed of one long piece of thick metal, rolled for the handle - rather inelegant looking but has withstood a fair amount of abuse. Kind of looks like a pseudo hori-hori.
    "What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbour". 
  • jonathan.colejonathan.cole Posts: 221
    The bad ass is basically an inch thick steel pole that they've hammered and sharpened one end of. It is *very* heavy.
  • _Nicolas__Nicolas_ Posts: 48
    I used to go with Joseph Bentley for tools but I'm not sure what happened to them so now it's B&B, they seem to be the only garden tool manufacturer the RHS get behind so that should tell you something! :) I have many of their tools including their hand trowel and their old transplanting trowel which was pointy, unlike their current model which seems to be curved.

    https://www.burgonandball.com/collections/trowels-planting-tools    
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