Hi there everyone, I'm glad to be joining the team and hope, although I'm still very much a novice, to be able to give some useful advice to people.

The question I wanted to ask was really, does anyone know where I can get rusty, second hand garden tools from. The reason I ask is that someone has asked me to make a heron for them and, because they have an allotment, I thought it'd be a nice idea to make it from old rusty garden tools.

I've been on a few websites, but just found antiques which are too expensive, and I'm going to go round loads of scrapyards this Saturday, I thought I'd throw my question to everyone at GardenBanter.

In any case I'm glad to have found this site and hope to have many discussions on matters which are close to people's hearts.

All the best for now,


James Caley