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I was in a farm supply store and saw the pretty but poorly made garden tools. They are enough to discourage an amateur. Some of my garden tools like hoes, rakes, shovels and forks are over 75 years old and all have slick handles and no rust. I clean and oil them and apply linseed oil or leftover varnish on the handles. Never expose them to the weather. I am not sure but it may be that I am too lazy to use rusty tools.
 
My father in law gave me a shovel about 45 years ago and it was used then. I split it a few years ago prying a rock out of a hole. Bought a new one and hated everything about it, welded the old one, ground it down and haven't touched the new one since. Bought a new hoe too, used it a couple times and back to the old one.
 
You looked at new pitchforks? Tines are square, thick and rough, spend more time pushing straw and poop off the fork with your boot than doing anything else.

Bought me a couple old ones at auctions, they work much better.

Fred
 
Reminds me that we had 3-tine forks for pitching hay and straw - and 5-tine forks for pitching manure. They had nice smooth tines so material wouldn't hang up on them. I made a push scraper to push pen manure up to the gate where we could pitch it in the spreader.
 
Most of my garden tool were my dad and he bought a lot of them on farm sales 60 years ago. I f taken care of the will last several life times. I have several hoes that worn to half the size they were when new.
 

There are still good tools to be had, but they are imported from places like England, France, Germany and Italy.
 
My wife bought herself a garden hoe last year. She was not raised on a farm or doing a garden. The hoe looks like and performs like a kid's toy. I could not put a edge on it and too light and handle too short to use. I grew up hoeing cotton and corn and we had good hoes then but now crap.
 
Rogue tools made by Prohoe makes hoes and other tools that are really good quality with ash handles out of recycled disc blades. They hold a good edge and are reasonably priced.
 
When ever I need any things like that I hit the yard sales looking for older tools. I will gladly pay more for a good old hoe or whatever then buy a new one.
 
That hoe might be one that somebody cut down for a kid and one for mixing mud for laying blocks . My dad did for us kids and I sold it years ago.
 
I have a garden rake and garden hoe that I bought in 1957, and I'm still using
them today. The hoe has been used so much that it fractured the blade. I simply
welded it. The handles on these tools are original, and all tools are kept out
of the weather.
I have "fixed" tools for friends who use their tools, and then just leave them
lie where it's handy---never taken care of.
My hoes, hatchets, spades, axes, etc. are "razor sharp"----they work best this way.
 
As Bret noted, there's still good tools to be had, though most are imported, and there's the usual assortment of yuppie-gardener stuff as well--usually good stuff, but priced for sale to the "grow your own alfalfa sprouts" crowd. I enjoy making my own garden tools, and they're popular gifts to friends and (especially) their kids who enjoy gardening, one reason being that I can tailor sizes to the owners that way, and the kids aren't stuck with a plastic hoe, they can have a "real" one that fits them. There's also several companies that still make heavy-duty stuff here in the US--I've linked to the website of Predator Tools--I learned of them through a friend who worked for a landscaping company and that's what they used--they're not cheap but they're made to stand up to all-day-every-day heavy use.
Predator Tools
 
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