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Professional gardener friends run an amazing biodynamic veg garden and have been using these tools for a few years. They swear by them, and brought a couple to the last meeting of our local garden club to show us.. I am smitten by the Sirius hoe :-) Anybody else tried them? http://www.implementations.co.uk/site/home Janet |
bronze tools
Janet wrote:
Professional gardener friends run an amazing biodynamic veg garden and have been using these tools for a few years. They swear by them, and brought a couple to the last meeting of our local garden club to show us.. I am smitten by the Sirius hoe :-) Anybody else tried them? http://www.implementations.co.uk/site/home Nick impulse-bought some hand implement thingy from them, which I have to admit, has hung on the back of the shed door looking unloved. :-( It was a bit of an expensive impulse-buy, but probably not his worst ... |
bronze tools
On 06/06/2013 09:21, Janet wrote:
Professional gardener friends run an amazing biodynamic veg garden and have been using these tools for a few years. They swear by them, and brought a couple to the last meeting of our local garden club to show us.. I am smitten by the Sirius hoe :-) Anybody else tried them? http://www.implementations.co.uk/site/home Janet What's this, a return to the bronze age? What next round barrows? |
bronze tools
On 06/06/2013 09:21, Janet wrote:
Professional gardener friends run an amazing biodynamic veg garden and have been using these tools for a few years. They swear by them, and brought a couple to the last meeting of our local garden club to show us.. I am smitten by the Sirius hoe :-) Anybody else tried them? http://www.implementations.co.uk/site/home Janet At that price and with biodynamic connections you have to be joking. You could get a complete set of tools for the price of one item! I did have a stainless steel fork once but it snapped whilst digging up nettles and was immediately put beyond economic repair. It failed because of poor welding practices by the manufacturer. That convinced me to buy budget or mid range garden tools that looked and felt right. Mild steel tools are a lot easier to make and last perfectly well provided that you look after them properly. I make an exception for hedge trimmers since I can burn out the ones they sell in sheds in a single session. I cut a lot of hedges. -- Regards, Martin Brown |
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says... On 06/06/2013 09:21, Janet wrote: Professional gardener friends run an amazing biodynamic veg garden and have been using these tools for a few years. They swear by them, and brought a couple to the last meeting of our local garden club to show us.. I am smitten by the Sirius hoe :-) Anybody else tried them? http://www.implementations.co.uk/site/home Janet At that price and with biodynamic connections you have to be joking. I've known them (and their garden) 20 years; they are fulltime, highly skilled gardeners feeding a sizeable community. I often worked in their garden when it was run organically. I've seen for myself the inexplicable transformation in productivity that took place after the property owner insisted the (somewhat unwilling and cynical) gardeners to change to biodynamics. You could get a complete set of tools for the price of one item! True. But that hoe is not just perfectly balanced in weight, it has a subtly shaped wooden handle that fits perfectly in the hands. The last time I found new tools with such ergonomically comfortable handles, was a set of hand tools from the Design Centre over 40 years ago. They were "an extravagance" at the time but have been in daily use ever since. Janet. |
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Janet wrote in news:MPG.2c1a56e91096bccf989707
@news.individual.net: Professional gardener friends run an amazing biodynamic veg garden and have been using these tools for a few years. They swear by them, and brought a couple to the last meeting of our local garden club to show us.. I am smitten by the Sirius hoe :-) Anybody else tried them? http://www.implementations.co.uk/site/home Janet Are you having a laugh? Impractical, expensive and worthless to a practical gardener. I wonder why these tools are made from steel now. A bronze tool would be good in the stone age. Bronze is a useless alloy today for tools. Soft and blunted easily. Why? On earth? would somebody re-create these useless tools? And try to sell them? My, oh my Baz |
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On 06/06/13 09:34, Martin Brown wrote:
On 06/06/2013 09:21, Janet wrote: Professional gardener friends run an amazing biodynamic veg garden and have been using these tools for a few years. They swear by them, and brought a couple to the last meeting of our local garden club to show us.. I am smitten by the Sirius hoe :-) Anybody else tried them? http://www.implementations.co.uk/site/home Janet At that price and with biodynamic connections you have to be joking. You could get a complete set of tools for the price of one item! I did have a stainless steel fork once but it snapped whilst digging up nettles and was immediately put beyond economic repair. It failed because of poor welding practices by the manufacturer. That convinced me to buy budget or mid range garden tools that looked and felt right. Or better- second^h^h^pre-loved.If they've lasted long enough to *be* secondhand, they're probably good. Mild steel tools are a lot easier to make and last perfectly well provided that you look after them properly. Mild steeland 'tools' make an oxymoron. Toold like spades, forks and saws are generally forged cast steel, with a high carbon content. A mild stel fork would just bend. -- Rusty Hinge |
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On 06/06/13 12:16, Baz wrote:
Janet wrote in news:MPG.2c1a56e91096bccf989707 @news.individual.net: Professional gardener friends run an amazing biodynamic veg garden and have been using these tools for a few years. They swear by them, and brought a couple to the last meeting of our local garden club to show us.. I am smitten by the Sirius hoe :-) Anybody else tried them? http://www.implementations.co.uk/site/home Janet Are you having a laugh? Impractical, expensive and worthless to a practical gardener. I wonder why these tools are made from steel now. A bronze tool would be good in the stone age. Bronze is a useless alloy today for tools. Soft and blunted easily. Why? On earth? would somebody re-create these useless tools? And try to sell them? *That* depends on the bronze. A small proportion of nickel, silver or zirconium would make them armour piercing. I wanted to inlay a piece of steel with low-grade silver, so I melted some silver in a block of charcoal and added a similar quantity of lead solder. I then tinned the bits (engraved characters) and melted the silver/solder mix. When cool, I went to draw-file it to flat, and a good sharp file just skated over the raised run. It works for bronze too - but silver isn't 7/6d an ounce like it were when I were alad. -- Rusty Hinge |
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On 2013-06-06, David Hill wrote:
On 06/06/2013 09:21, Janet wrote: Professional gardener friends run an amazing biodynamic veg garden and have been using these tools for a few years. They swear by them, and brought a couple to the last meeting of our local garden club to show us.. I am smitten by the Sirius hoe :-) Anybody else tried them? http://www.implementations.co.uk/site/home Janet What's this, a return to the bronze age? What next round barrows? Bring back the digging stick! |
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On 06/06/2013 16:25, Adam Funk wrote:
On 2013-06-06, David Hill wrote: On 06/06/2013 09:21, Janet wrote: Professional gardener friends run an amazing biodynamic veg garden and have been using these tools for a few years. They swear by them, and brought a couple to the last meeting of our local garden club to show us.. I am smitten by the Sirius hoe :-) Anybody else tried them? http://www.implementations.co.uk/site/home Janet What's this, a return to the bronze age? What next round barrows? Bring back the digging stick! What do you mean "Bring back"? I didn't know they were supposed to be gone. |
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"Janet" wrote in message t... Professional gardener friends run an amazing biodynamic veg garden and have been using these tools for a few years. They swear by them, and brought a couple to the last meeting of our local garden club to show us.. I am smitten by the Sirius hoe :-) Anybody else tried them? http://www.implementations.co.uk/site/home Janet I have a hoe, spade, trowel and hand fork. One day I hope to buy their rake. I find them well made, not too heavy and very usable. Do they increase my productivity or that of my garden? Don't know. Do I get pleasure from owning and using them? Yes!. |
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In article , david@abacus-
nurseries.co.uk says... On 06/06/2013 16:25, Adam Funk wrote: On 2013-06-06, David Hill wrote: # Bring back the digging stick! What do you mean "Bring back"? I didn't know they were supposed to be gone. We have one;-) we've often used it to pry out large stones or roots, loosen holes for fence posts etc. Janet |
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@remove.btinternet.com says... "Janet" wrote in message t... Professional gardener friends run an amazing biodynamic veg garden and have been using these tools for a few years. They swear by them, and brought a couple to the last meeting of our local garden club to show us.. I am smitten by the Sirius hoe :-) Anybody else tried them? http://www.implementations.co.uk/site/home Janet I have a hoe, spade, trowel and hand fork. One day I hope to buy their rake. I find them well made, not too heavy and very usable. Do they increase my productivity or that of my garden? Don't know. Do I get pleasure from owning and using them? Yes!. Hooray! Janet |
bronze tools
On 06/06/2013 22:57, Janet wrote:
In article , david@abacus- nurseries.co.uk says... On 06/06/2013 16:25, Adam Funk wrote: On 2013-06-06, David Hill wrote: # Bring back the digging stick! What do you mean "Bring back"? I didn't know they were supposed to be gone. We have one;-) we've often used it to pry out large stones or roots, loosen holes for fence posts etc. Janet I have a scaffold pole for that sort of thing. Brutal but effective. -- Regards, Martin Brown |
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