On 8/17/2011 4:37 PM, dpb wrote:
On 8/17/2011 3:19 PM, Herb Eneva wrote:
What is best to apply to wooden shovel and rake handles that stay
outside all year?...

Putting them away (or build a protective mini-shed or something near the
use location)...

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BTDT, as I have described on here several times before. I could not get
my mother and grandmother to put their toys away after playing in the
garden, and the wood handles lasted 18-24 months tops. Finally said the
hell with it (when I started getting a little cashflow), and as each new
handle-break occurred, I replaced the tool with commercial-grade glass
handle ones. Changing shovel handles is a tedious pain in the ass, and
as cheap as the shovels are now (pretty much all made in China), it just
ain't worth screwing with, IMHO. I only have so many years left, etc.
Besides, you gotta find an old-timey country HW store to even FIND loose
handles any more. None of the big-boxes near here carries them.

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aem sends...