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- From: lflondon@mindspring.com
- To: permaculture@franklin.oit.unc.edu
- Subject: (fwd) Re: Your best recent tool?
- Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 14:25:24 -0400
On Wed, 25 Jul 2001 22:42:49 -0400, in alt.permaculture
lflondon@mindspring.com wrote:
Newly acquired short handled hoes from Hida Tool Co. - 1-800-443-5512
(www.hidatool.com), Farmer Hoe (medium sized heavy rectangular eyehoe)
and Farmer Rake (a heavy 3 pronged Chillington Hoe-type tool) - all
good examples of the best of traditional Japanese garden tools - all
are either entirely hand forged or forged and mig welded - some have
stamped metal parts, some have been machine-rolled to
give a taper to the thickness of the hoe blade.
both can be seen here:
http://www.hidatool.com/long_handle_hoe.htm
Also see:
http://www.hidatool.com/hand_hoes.htm
these are hand forged, beautiful and a real bargain
http://www.hidatool.com/weeders.htm
Also a new, really fine Dutch-made 4-tined digging (spade) fork (9"
wide) with strap-type socket attached to a medium-long wooden T-
handle (47"), from Garrett Wade (1-800-221-2942 - see page 5
in catalog)
L.F.London ICQ#27930345 lflondon@mindspring.com
www.ibiblio.org/ecolandtech london@ibiblio.org
- (fwd) Re: Your best recent tool?, lflondon, 07/30/2001
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