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Gardening tools: Please help me :)
Hi, My mum need some new gardening tools and I have found a Fiskars Garden Tools set for £26.00 on hereforaday.com - One Amazing Deal Everyday does anyone know if this is a good make? It's just she spends A LOT of time gardening so I want to make sure it will last. Help
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Gardening tools: Please help me :)
On 01/03/2011 10:08, Kirsten wrote:
Hi, My mum need some new gardening tools and I have found a Fiskars Garden Tools set for £26.00 on 'hereforaday.com - One Amazing Deal Everyday' (http://www.hereforaday.com) does anyone know if this is a good make? It's just she spends A LOT of time gardening so I want to make sure it will last. Help Kirsten I have bought good tools from Fiskars in the past but, if the image that link brings up is what you propose buying,then, sorry, I wouldn't bother. Not for a really keen gardener. Personally, I think tools should be hand-picked by the user. Could you take your mum out for a day to a good garden centre and let her choose ... or would that become too expensive? ;~) -- Spider from high ground in SE London gardening on clay |
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Gardening tools: Please help me :)
On Tue, 1 Mar 2011 22:56:27 -0000, "Bob Hobden"
wrote: "Mike Lyle" wrote ... [...] (But I added a couple of ) If she doesn't mind second-hand -- which is sometimes nicer as well as cheaper -- car boot sales are worth checking. Depends which allotment shed they were nicked from. Oh, dear! I really am an innocent little thing: I hadn't thought of that. -- Mike. |
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Gardening tools: Please help me :)
"Sacha" wrote in message ... On 2011-03-02 15:38:33 +0000, Mike Lyle said: On Tue, 1 Mar 2011 22:56:27 -0000, "Bob Hobden" wrote: "Mike Lyle" wrote ... [...] (But I added a couple of ) If she doesn't mind second-hand -- which is sometimes nicer as well as cheaper -- car boot sales are worth checking. Depends which allotment shed they were nicked from. Oh, dear! I really am an innocent little thing: I hadn't thought of that. I'm afraid it's the first thing that went through my mind and we have neither an allotment nor experience of car boot sales. We do have experience of the sneaky lowlife who stole a hedgecutter from us a few years ago, however. -- Sacha South Devon and if anyone wants more proof of the low down life who will pinch things from an open shed or garage, I had a projector I use for talks pinched. I had to buy a new one for a talk I gave to a WI a couple of weeks ago. A Sander, a new Jigsaw in a case and a couple of Black and Decker Drills in a superb carrying case. Back gate unlocked, Garage unlocked ""We never have trouble here"" until now. The trouble is that my gardens go through to the road behind and that is where my garage is :-(( If it can happen here on the Isle of Wight, it can happen to YOU .......... THERE. LOCK YOUR SHED AND GARAGE. Mike -- .................................... Don't take life too seriously, you'll never get out alive .................................... -- .................................... Don't take life too seriously, you'll never get out alive .................................... |
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Gardening tools: Please help me :)
Mike Lyle wrote in
: If she doesn't mind second-hand -- which is sometimes nicer as well as cheaper -- car boot sales are worth checking. How true. Second hand or 'used' good quality tools pre 1970 will always outlast even mid-ranged to top end tools manufactured today. In fact even the top of the range tools today are imo inferior to their 1950/60/70 products. The materials of tools, although high quality by todays standards are not a match for the older ones. IMO. If a tool has a mechanism it should have readily available spare parts, if it hasn't don't touch it. Buy cheap buy twice (or more times) and in the end you will have paid the price of a professional tool and still have a duff, broken thingy after all the outlay. Again IMO. Baz |
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I have learnt this from bitter experience - if you make the escape routes hard you are less at risk and less will be stolen if they do break in. Re tools - I always buy cheapish, because I'm always thinking i'll mislay them and leave them out in the rain for months. Even some fairly cheap ones have lasted me a decent length of time, though. The very cheapest usually disintegrate after a few weeks. I agree with the comments on the better quality of vintage tools - same with clothes, furniture etc. The old ones are the best, innit. |
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