Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Chatting => Equipment Shed => Topic started by: Sparkyrog on March 10, 2015, 14:00
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If like me you are on the tall side ,I found today that Lidles have a new spade and fork set with handles about 8 inches longer than standard ! though I doubt they will handle real heavy work ,for £9.99 each they are worth a try :)
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I spotted those. Very nicely priced for us in the 6 foot and over brigade
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I have been digging out autumn raspberries with them all fine so far :)
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ooh good tip, will see if they still have any near me :)
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I'm a shorthouse, but I do like a long handle on a fork or spade, all to do with fulcums and levers. But, trying to buy long handles for replacements is a beggar.
Cheers, Tony. ;)
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trying to buy long handles for replacements is a beggar.
Worth trying De Wit or Sneeboer? Both websites pretty useless and either don't list the products with enough detail or not at all!! and neither list any spare handles so I reckon you'd have to contact them to ask. But their spades come with all sorts of lengths of handles as well as D and T shaped ends so I expect they do sell replacement handles :...
http://www.dewit.eu/english-3.html
http://www.sneeboer.com/t/ToolFinder/-f14---
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I buy 2 handles, one with a T bar end, one with a D end, then take the D end off and fit it to the end of the T bar handle, this usually gains me the length of the D handle (about 6").
Grendel