Bulldog are said to be very durable. Avoid stainless steel tools with wooden handles, that is the weak spot. I've had a lawn edger and fork break when the handle snapped, sometimes they are too thin at the joint, sometimes the wood is brittle, probably due to poor selection of wood cut. I tend to stick to Wolf Garten, very durable and well designed, and Bulldog. Too many tools are designed to a price.
Must be 25years ago I bought a SS spade and fork, then they were £25 each, they are heavy and not as good to use as my old steel ones. Stick to your old kit its far better.
I have a SS border fork with a wooden handle bought in 1989 for working on heavy Harrow clay. It is still going strong and works on my current garden of loam on a clay sub soil. It is in use every week for big and small jobs.
Bought a spade at the same time with a resin handle but that snapped 15 years ago when OH was trying to dig up some stones we found under a new bed. Its replacement is a cheap SS one from a local garden store and it is fine.
I do clean my tools after use and the SS ones clean up best. They all hang on hooks and I give the business ends a squirt of WD40 for their winter rest but the last two winters have been mild so they haven't had much of a rest lately.
Long handles are best for backs when digging.
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I still have my old Dad's fork, rake and spade. (He gardened in the 1930s through to the 1980s. ) He taught me to have a mix of old oil and sand, in a bucket, right next to the garden shed. and to use that to clean the tools after every use, by plunging them in and out of the bucket. Then wipe off with a piece of serge and hang the tools up in't shed! But now I am old myself, and looking for ways to ease the burdens), stainless steel tools seems a good idea; yet they still need a clean after use! So my bucket of oily sand is still there! (Not all stainless steel is what it should be!)
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Bulldog are said to be very durable. Avoid stainless steel tools with wooden handles, that is the weak spot. I've had a lawn edger and fork break when the handle snapped, sometimes they are too thin at the joint, sometimes the wood is brittle, probably due to poor selection of wood cut. I tend to stick to Wolf Garten, very durable and well designed, and Bulldog. Too many tools are designed to a price.
Oh, and what is wrong with your current tools? Keep 'em if they work.
Must be 25years ago I bought a SS spade and fork, then they were £25 each,
they are heavy and not as good to use as my old steel ones. Stick to your old kit its far better.
I have a SS border fork with a wooden handle bought in 1989 for working on heavy Harrow clay. It is still going strong and works on my current garden of loam on a clay sub soil. It is in use every week for big and small jobs.
Bought a spade at the same time with a resin handle but that snapped 15 years ago when OH was trying to dig up some stones we found under a new bed. Its replacement is a cheap SS one from a local garden store and it is fine.
I do clean my tools after use and the SS ones clean up best. They all hang on hooks and I give the business ends a squirt of WD40 for their winter rest but the last two winters have been mild so they haven't had much of a rest lately.
Long handles are best for backs when digging.
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Calvin Klein do garden tools? How divine.
I still have my old Dad's fork, rake and spade. (He gardened in the 1930s through to the 1980s. ) He taught me to have a mix of old oil and sand, in a bucket, right next to the garden shed. and to use that to clean the tools after every use, by plunging them in and out of the bucket. Then wipe off with a piece of serge and hang the tools up in't shed! But now I am old myself, and looking for ways to ease the burdens), stainless steel tools seems a good idea; yet they still need a clean after use! So my bucket of oily sand is still there! (Not all stainless steel is what it should be!)
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