On Sat, 29 Apr 2017 09:11:19 -0400, "Jim Wilkins"
wrote:

"Larry Jaques" wrote in message
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On Fri, 28 Apr 2017 17:17:40 -0400, "Jim Wilkins"
wrote:


I got as far as saving a nice maple sapling for the handle ...

Maple will be nice for a push tool, but forget it for prying tools.

The hardwoods in my back lot are maple and red oak. When I slabbed the
red oak logs square I salvaged whatever random sizes I could as
rectangular strips and thin planks which have been useful, but they
don't create the look of hand-forged iron.with a debarked sapling
handle.

Oh, I didn't know it was a decorative tool.


Freeing the rocks in a post hole here requires serious iron like a
digging or San Angelo bar. One of my neighbors borrowed a Cat 316 from
work to clear and level a back yard and it was barely big enough.

Grok that. There are some large ones here, too.

I have scratches on my side from when I moved the tools out to the
pump house last month. I put my digging bar in the front and it
unbalanced the whole thing, so when I jostled things to get a leaf
rake out, I brought it down on me. The hard toothed rake took a shot
and won.

After that, the digging bar went against the corner in the pump house
and I put a pair of stabilizers on the wooden tool holder matrix.

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