copper tools

jackiestagg · « **on:** April 24, 2007, 19:47 »

I went to the RHS spring show n Cardiff last weekend and there was a stall selling copper - well, bronze really- tools and they looked and felt lovely. does anyone use them and are they any good?

WG. · « **Reply #1 on:** April 24, 2007, 20:00 »

They'd dig a nice hole in your bank account, I take it? Sorry no, I don't use them.

jackiestagg · « **Reply #2 on:** April 24, 2007, 20:04 »

well, exactly, but you could dig a hole in the show site with them and it was like concrete. My garden tends that way too. Worth the money if it saves the work

Aunt Sally · « **Reply #3 on:** April 24, 2007, 20:33 »

http://www.implementations.co.uk/index.html

They look absolutely beautiful

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... when Aunty wins the lottery...

mkhenry · « **Reply #4 on:** April 24, 2007, 20:58 »

Quote from: "whisky_golf"

They'd dig a nice hole in your bank account, I take it? Sorry no, I don't use them.

The web site states that they seem to have an adverse effect on slugs and snails,I would be a little concerned that if they have that much residual power then what else might they be altering and leaving in the soil. I actually prefer old tools (I am leaving myself wide open here for WG to put my foot in it) I like to think that I am carrying on the traditions of the original owners and am bridging the gap between then and now. For me they seem to have a warmth that modern often expensive garden tools dont have.

richyrich7 · « **Reply #5 on:** April 24, 2007, 21:28 »

My foot also has an adverse effect on slugs and snails

richyrich7 · « **Reply #6 on:** April 24, 2007, 21:48 »

Hang on ! why are bronze tools better than carbon steel or stainless ? they can't be as hard for a start, as we ditched them at the end of the bronze age after all a bronze sword don't stand against an iron one does it, or am I missing the point ? Is it because there pretty ?

Mkhenry wish I could get hold of a old hoe head, go in the shops and they all seem to be stuck onto a cold nasty bit of cheap metal. You used to get em from wilko's but even they have dropped them now.

leeky · « **Reply #7 on:** April 24, 2007, 21:56 »

they do look good.

i want a rake like shauns anyway. i have some industrial gauge angle iron and 18x 9 inch nails to weld to it

richyrich7 · « **Reply #8 on:** April 24, 2007, 21:57 »

Yeah looks the biz don't it ? do you think it looks like one of them tarmac ones?

leeky · « **Reply #9 on:** April 24, 2007, 22:13 »

ah! a lovley moment of realisation there. ta rich

shaun · « **Reply #10 on:** April 24, 2007, 22:15 »

its not a tarmac rake :roll:
if i told you where i got that rake from you wouldnt believe me

leeky · « **Reply #11 on:** April 24, 2007, 22:17 »

http://www.londonsurfacing.co.uk/

shaun · « **Reply #12 on:** April 24, 2007, 22:19 »

million miles away

mkhenry · « **Reply #13 on:** April 25, 2007, 00:25 »

Rich know what you mean. I manage to get hold of a very old spud shovel wonderful tool.Makes trenching so easy. The handle is warm and tactile. turn it over it makes a great seed drill. Its a bit like a small mattock,but very well made.

Gwiz · « **Reply #14 on:** April 25, 2007, 06:09 »

thinking about the claim regarding slugs and snails.....
...i can't remember the last time my garden tools were adversly harmed by a gang of snails.

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copper tools

WG.

Gwiz