Today I acquired...........

[bigegg]

Forgot i had this.
Found in back of wardrobe.

 

[Nick DV]

I am set for Saturday night.


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Thank you again kind human, who resides north of the A303.
You are a kind member of the human race.

Not tried that one yet but have a bottle of Jura 10 which I really like.

 

[DAPPH]

Yesterday whilst doing more house / shed clearing at my dad's old house I found this.
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Looking very sorry for it self and now home to woodworm. Something I remember using to earn pocket money as a teenager tidying hedges and ditches at the house in the village I gardened for, that was forty years or more ago.
I think I need to buy a replacement handle for a Yorkshire Billhook, not sure what I will do with it in London mind.

Sharpen & polish that Furbel ( sp?) ( made by Ewel ?) and take it on protest marches in London ......offer long or short sleeves ..

We used to have a couple for farm work , the shorter one was frequently used when hedge laying & sometimes when sugar beet or mangold topping & tailing when the corners of fields had to be dug out by hand as it was not possible to get the mechanised harvester in them without mashing up valuable sugar beet .

 

[Nick DV]

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Forgot i had this.
Found in back of wardrobe.

I'm sure I've seen huge print of this on the wall of someone's workshop in a YouTube video

 

[eLuSiVeMiTe]

Sounds lovely

 

[zx9]

I have one just like that - family heirloom, as it belonged to g/g/grandad, who was a gardener at a big house in Burley/Headingley (leeds) around 1860-1900

I doubt this one is quite so old, it is just one of those silly things that you forget about over the years until you find it again and the memories come back to you. The house was backed on to on one side by a field which usually had cattle in and the other side was an orchard with apple, plumb, bullice and crab apples. Once or twice a year I would get sent over the hedge to clean out the two ditches, both the field and orchard are now gone, replaced by scores of houses I suspect the ditches were piped and filled in long ago.

 

[eLuSiVeMiTe]

Sounds lovely

This one's being kept portable. Nice size to bring into the lounge and be reasonably social while I'm patching.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

Yesterday whilst doing more house / shed clearing at my dad's old house I found this.
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Looking very sorry for it self and now home to woodworm. Something I remember using to earn pocket money as a teenager tidying hedges and ditches at the house in the village I gardened for, that was forty years or more ago.
I think I need to buy a replacement handle for a Yorkshire Billhook, not sure what I will do with it in London mind.

Get a short sledge hammer handle, fettle to ft. stain, wax and oil.
Clean the head, warm and wax.
But if that's to much hard work, send it here I will allow it to earn it's keep.


All jesting aside, a nice tool, with good memories.
Clean it up, enjoy past and present times.

 

[eLuSiVeMiTe]

Sounds lovely

And testing.
Name that tune

 

[Maker]

And testing.
Name that tune

Don't have a clue what the funk that is.

 

[eLuSiVeMiTe]

Don't have a clue what the funk that is.

Found a use for my dry markers . When the current situation finally settled in going to do what I've procrastinated about for years and have piano lessons
Boys will be too.

 

[Mick Annick]

Yesterday whilst doing more house / shed clearing at my dad's old house I found this.
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Looking very sorry for it self and now home to woodworm. Something I remember using to earn pocket money as a teenager tidying hedges and ditches at the house in the village I gardened for, that was forty years or more ago.
I think I need to buy a replacement handle for a Yorkshire Billhook, not sure what I will do with it in London mind.

I do a bit of hedgelaying but won’t use one of those - I’m scared I’ll whack myself in the forehead swinging it up...

 

[bigegg]

Get a short sledge hammer handle, fettle to ft. stain, wax and oil.
Clean the head, warm and wax.
But if that's to much hard work, send it here I will allow it to earn it's keep.


All jesting aside, a nice tool, with good memories.
Clean it up, enjoy past and present times.

Any ideas on the best way to replace the rivets?
Short of welding up the oversized holes in the tang, and redrilling?

 

[bigegg]

I do a bit of hedgelaying but won’t use one of those - I’m scared I’ll whack myself in the forehead swinging it up...

The trick is to make sure your head isnt in the path - same as using a sickle.

(I originally typed "scythe", but i think you'd have to be a yogamaster, or a complete norbert (or both!) to hit yourself in the head with a scythe)

 

[Mick Annick]

The trick is to make sure your head isnt in the path - same as using a sickle.

I am not safe with sharp things, chopped my right index finger half off with a bill hook as a small boy - I vividly remember seeing bone...

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

Any ideas on the best way to replace the rivets?
Short of welding up the oversized holes in the tang, and redrilling?

I make my own rivets from 4 to 8mm round bar.
Simple to do and looks right.

Plus I get to hit things with a hammer.

 

[zx9]

The trick is to make sure your head isnt in the path - same as using a sickle.

(I originally typed "scythe", but i think you'd have to be a yogamaster, or a complete norbert (or both!) to hit yourself in the head with a scythe)

I also re found the sickle or thought I had but it turned out to be a 'modern' as in 1980's at a guess replacement. I did chicken out of using it to knock down a nettle patch not for fear of the tool but not wanting 1M high nettles falling on to me, instead I used a Black and Decker strimmer and about three re loads of line. A scythe would have been much quicker but I don't think we ever had one of them.

 

[bigegg]

I am not safe with sharp things, chopped my right index finger half off with a bill hook as a small boy - I vividly remember seeing bone...

My most used "tool" over the years is superglue.
Every single job, i seem to use it.

Eg: i've been clearing out my wardrobe today. Cut myself on a broken plastic coathanger: dab of screwfix's finest "no nonsense cyanacrylate" to stop it leaking.

I reckon i've just got delicate skin.

 

[bigegg]

I also re found the sickle or thought I had but it turned out to be a 'modern' as in 1980's at a guess replacement. I did chicken out of using it to knock down a nettle patch not for fear of the tool but not wanting 1M high nettles falling on to me, instead I used a Black and Decker strimmer and about three re loads of line. A scythe would have been much quicker but I don't think we ever had one of them.

I'm luckily immune to (or at least unaffected by) nettles.

Scythes are *much* better than strimmers.
Me + a mate once got a job clearing a *huge* garden: 100yds long, and probably 30 yds wide.
Absolutely over run with brambles + rosebushes.
I'd done about a quarter of it with a scythe by the time he'd done 6ft square. That was him using a stihl petrol "brushcutter" with a blade, not string.

 

[eLuSiVeMiTe]

Don't have a clue what the funk that is.

Have another go.

No LFO retrigger on this so it's hit and miss as to when you hit the key
Collective suggests it was sampled the best ones picked and arranged