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

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

A new Adze handle.
Such a simple thing, I thought. Find a company on line I have dealt with before. Place and order, plus next day delivery. Pay money, wait.
That was Saturday.



Here it is, mug for scale.
But I hear you cry it is Thursday, you paid for next day delivery.
I did.

Monday arrived and I got a package.
A sledge Hammer Handle.
Ring the supplier, confirm with images and parts number. They agreed to resend the correct order, yes we double check.
Tuesday arrives, I get a parcel.
No.
I get a Pick axe handle.



On the phone, but it had to wait until Wednesday. Go through it all again. I am assured that this time it will be correct. She will pick the order herself. Not depend on the person who had made 2 mistakes.



Today it arrived, with a letter saying I can keep the 2 extra handles or return them for a refund on the cost of the adze handle. In other words I get it free.
I choose to keep the extras.

I have now stained the Hammer and pick axe handles, all 3 are soaking in Linseed oil.

 

[Farside]

Today it arrived, with a letter saying I can keep the 2 extra handles or return them for a refund on the cost of the adze handle. In other words I get it free.
I choose to keep the extras.

I have now stained the Hammer and pick axe handles, all 3 are soaking in Linseed oil.

Result!

 

[DAPPH]

@ TYA are those handles expensive ?

I have a genuine Welsh miners pick axe head made by Ewel as far as I can see it's never been used but it is well rust pitted.

At sometime in the past someone tried to fit it up with a wooden pick helve, not doing a very good job & hammering goodness only knows how many nails & screws in the head to try and tighten it up on the helve , . it flapped around in the breeze . The handle is also full of wood worm .

I have a three foot x 5 inch dia length of 5 yr old seasoned ash split in half along its length , been thinking of using it to try and bespoke make a new shaft but if they are available ready made and around a tenner I might take that route . Can you advise please ?

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

@DAPPH
The adze was £18, what was an average price for on line and in shops.

The average price is between £14 and £20 for long wooden handles

I have had Pick axe shaft as low as £6. I did get staff discount as I was "working " on site.

Shop around, you will be surprized what prices and handles you will find. I found a tool supplier what had Adze handles in a catalogue, but had a lead time of 3 days.

Decent garden centres, with a Landscape centre may have handles.

My local old fashioned hardware shop has all sorts of handles, but you need to ask and know were to look.

I have used a copy lathe in the past to make handles, but getting a decent blank to turn into a handle is difficult now. It makes it expensive.

You will find on the Bay of fleas your miners Ewell with a standard shaft. But Each pit/area would have a design local to that area.

 

[rtbcomp]

Old Russian electrical stuff is weird, I had a radio, and to change from VHF, SW ect you rotated a big knob on the side and the whole PCB inside spun round to different contacts !

Looked like the Flintstones designed it.

Like the turret tuners in old TV sets. We had one with a motorised turret tuner in it. You moved a slider to the required station and a motor turned the turret. It made a noise like muffled gunshots.

 

[rtbcomp]

Iv found with a lot of Aldi and lidl tools the supplied blades or bits aren’t worth even tryin we had an sds that was brilliant till there bits were used same with grinders and saws . Worth tryin a decent blade for timber in it

Interesting, my bandsaw blade has just given up the ghost, after hardly any use at all.

 

[rtbcomp]

@DAPPH
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My local old fashioned hardware shop has all sorts of handles, but you need to ask and know were to look.

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I'll resist it.
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[DAPPH]

Yes they come in packs of six, Prices , burning time about 2 hrs per candle .

 

[Chillitt]

It's a bit battered but you cant knock it for the price..

 

[Bryan Williams]

A new Adze handle.
Such a simple thing, I thought. Find a company on line I have dealt with before. Place and order, plus next day delivery. Pay money, wait.
That was Saturday.

View attachment 156838

Here it is, mug for scale.
But I hear you cry it is Thursday, you paid for next day delivery.
I did.

Monday arrived and I got a package.
A sledge Hammer Handle.
Ring the supplier, confirm with images and parts number. They agreed to resend the correct order, yes we double check.
Tuesday arrives, I get a parcel.
No.
I get a Pick axe handle.

View attachment 156839

On the phone, but it had to wait until Wednesday. Go through it all again. I am assured that this time it will be correct. She will pick the order herself. Not depend on the person who had made 2 mistakes.

View attachment 156840

Today it arrived, with a letter saying I can keep the 2 extra handles or return them for a refund on the cost of the adze handle. In other words I get it free.
I choose to keep the extras.

I have now stained the Hammer and pick axe handles, all 3 are soaking in Linseed oil.

It all adze up..

 

[Paulbarrett]

Got a few holes to drill for job as the steel supplier didn’t bother or the project manager forgot, no ones owning up to it.

Anyway like 99% of us on here we all have a tool fetish lol so I just bought one for the business

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

Done.
Well the Linseed oil is freshly applied.
The head is a snug fit, sealed in 1 wedge and pine resin.
Yes, the wedge is not traditional.
But it just spreads the shaft end enough to secure it. With out a fair amount of re working it.

It is designed to be used, I will used it. So a compromise on tradition and practical use.

 

[DAPPH]

It all adze up..

That's a helve of a joke Bryan, can you pick us another or are you well & truly shafted?

 

[bigegg]

That's a helve of a joke Bryan, can you pick us another or are you well & truly shafted?

*what* is the mattock with you?

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

That's a helve of a joke Bryan, can you pick us another or are you well & truly shafted?

You will get the post axed, but pick your words and you will hammer the point home. But be careful you could be for the chopper.

 

[DAPPH]

Those last two posts really mauled me, they're absolute grubbers..

 

[DAPPH]

Today I purchased / acquired several bits of drain pipe angles & feet including a new 3 mtr square profile 3 inch down pipe to repair two drain pipes that one of my pups wrecked 10 years ago .
The big daft sod weighted 35 Kg and decided to go tearing round the perimeter fence & behind the office . Those little plastic things sticking out meant nothing to him as he tore around the garden un-noticed for several crazy minutes ,. He ended up smashing off breaking up both down pipes at the bottom end …. bottom parts of three angle joints & a straight joiner, on each of the two office guttering down pipes .
Better late than never comes to mind on this one.

My excuse is that I'd not been able to find a good matching make till this morning whilst I was in B&Q .
I'd purchased a couple or three test pieces over the years from numerous builders merchants but everything was a couple of mm out in critical dimension on one or more parts . Today's buys are the exact right type and made by the same company " Flowplas " , it all fits together well.

 

[MattF]

...so I just bought one for the business

Is that an engineers version of taking one for the team?

 

[Xup]

Cleared my brothers workshop as he's moving to smaller place and has no room.

2 Lathe's and a miller

 

[Dieselman 63]

Not the biggest haul ever but I couldn’t let these go into the bin at uni. The wooden ones are $4 each! Mum works at a school where they will be very much appreciated