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Gardener's belt and tools
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Hi all
Been busy with work and just spent an intensive weekend in the garden after neglecting it for a month or two and realised again how frustrating it is to work with poor tools.
I used to have a 'belt' for my tools until it fell apart (secateurs do that), and so I end up jamming my soft and hard pruners, and scissors, and string, into one or two pockets.
And however much I try my Wlikinsons Sword secateurs get blunt so fast. And seem to cut only the smallest stems.
Does anyone have a gardener's belt that is small/lightweight (ie not a massive apron as no one wants to wear those), and actually holds the tools easily? And any great secateurs that stay sharp for at least a day? Mine don't seem to last, even with a sharpener.
Tks!
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Felco make the best secateurs. Excellent quality, mdoels for different purposes and left-handers but no 2 is the general purpose one.
Can't be doing with a belt when I'm bending down to garden so I use a plastic tool box with two compartments and a carrying handle a bit like this - http://www.homebase.co.uk/en/homebaseuk/cleaning-caddy-374102 Works for me.
Negative attitude Hortico. Still cheaper than buying replacement pairs of less reliable secateurs every time they fail.
£10 for a new blade at their stand at Chelsea FS so I bought 2 along with replacement springs, just in case.
I also took in a pair that had been cooking in the compost bin for 6 months thru a wet winter and spring and were rusted open with a chipped blade. They said it was the worst case they'd seen but charged me a mere £19.50 to take them away, fix them and post them to a UK address. They've come back cleaned, polished, new blade, fixed rusty screw pivot thingy and a functioning spring. Bargain. Excellent service.
Hortico, where do you get your felco's repaired and serviced for free? I was charged i think £13 for sharpening and a service at a local garden machinery place. They said oh no-one gets these sharpened anymore, they just buy new Hmm I don't think so.
Thanks for the tips, I think I'll put Felcos on my Christmas list then!
A set of Felco's and buy the holster to hold it, and a pen knife in your pocket will do 99% of normal garden chores. It's all I use and they're in use every day.
Another vote for the Flecos - great tool
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Thanks guys!
8000wildflowers I have been looking online to find a good garden tool belt. You can buy holsters for baypass secatures but they do not seeem to make them for my anvil ratchet secatures .
I am considering making my own so the size of the "pockets" fit the secatures properly. Some strong fabric and a sewing machine should do the trick. I could also use a pocket for my green garden twine and some scissors . I have a gardeners apron but the pockets are not really the right shape. Scissors fall out or the garden twine unravels itself.
When my horrible cold improves I might have the get up and go to look at it.
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I agree! Post a pic once you've made one !