English Carbon-Steel Spades and Forks
In my home town, we don’t have basements. We have a pre-prepared list of excuses we give to those out of towners that ask: · We don’t have to dig below a frost line here; we don’t have frost. · This is Texas; we have lots of space so we just build out horizontally. · We don’t want to be accused of Urban Gas Drilling. But the truth is that just a few inches below the surface around here we have rocks; and we’re not talking a few rocks here and there but honest, proper, tool shattering rock. If you dig down and don’t find rock your house was probably built on a landfill and you have bigger problems. It’s just not worth the hassle of digging up anything near as large as a basement. The above ground pool people do a booming business. But if you are the adventurous sort and plan on doing some serious earth moving you might want to take a look at these. We’re talking spades and forks made out of English carbon steel and American ash handles so that they are tough enough to stand up to the kind of punishment and abuse that environments like my home town dish out. Ash is the hardwood they make baseball bats out of; You are going to have to work to break one of these handles. They carry a 10 year warranty but I bet your grandkids will be fighting over them some day. English Carbon-Steel Spades & Forks are available from Lee Valley. Prices range from $49 to $89
Thursday ~ November 11, 2007 by Steve W Posted in Garden Tools |
