Garden trowel

Jul 14, 2010 4 Replies

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The wooden handle on this trowel rotted out, so I flattened and welded a railroad spike to it to work as a handle. Then painted with cold-galv and green paint on top.



Hopefully it will earn me a couple of karma points with spouse



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Delicate it's not! I'd lose all karma with that because it's "TOO HEAVY!!"

Ignoramus2398 wrote:

"RoyJ" wrote: (clip) "TOO HEAVY!!" (clip) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Naw--it ain't too heavy. It's out of balance. You need to cut off the digging blade and make a new one out of 1/4" to 3/8" steel plate. That way the center of gravity will be closer to the middle. A further improvement could be made by making the handle about 3 to 4' long, so you can use it without getting down on your knees. This will also add enough weight so you can use it like a bull prick to drive it into the ground.

Hope this helps ;-)

Well, I hope she never gets pissed and throws it at you. Any way it hits, it's going to hurt. ;-)

Actually guys, as these trowels go, it actually has a nicer balance due to heavier handle. The handle helps with the digging effort.

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