Vintage Tools - Just to look at !!

As some of you will know, I collect and renovate vintage tools. - I came across this website and I thought that Members might be interested to see some really superb garden tools from a bygone era.

PLEASE NOTE: I have no connection with this firm, I post the link for interest only.

http://www.timelesstools.co.uk/garden_tools.htm

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If you like that sort of thing alex-adam you should get yourself along to the big nursery just outside of Whitby (can't remember its name). They have a few plants, but they also have loads of vintage stuff. They even have a vintage tool shop. I like to look in there, and I keep promising myself the massive scythe that's been hanging on the wall with a very modest price tag on it.

 

I think it is Victoria Farm Garden Centre. don't seem to have a website though.

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Yes, they're really interesting - I keep looking out for a 'reasonably priced' pair for my collection.

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Me too.

You show me yours and I'll show you mine.

 

I fancy the Mistletoe cutter ... haven't got any Mistletoe growing though !!

 

Here you are then, Jane



I also have various Forks, Hoes, Rakes, Shears and a specific collection of Loewe / Rolcut / Snapcut secateurs.


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If you happen to get the chance to go there the Tea Room at East Ruston Old Vicarage (which is, IMHO, the best garden in the UK ) has a collection of old garden tools, and some for sale too (perhaps in part because one of the owners was formerly an antique dealer)

 

Very nice! Have you got any large forks or spades? I've got about 4 forks so far. Will have to take a few picture while I clear my shed out today.

 

This ones my current favourite. A 1943 war department shovel. It's the best shovel I've ever used, hence why it's caked in mud. I do sometimes like to wonder what job it did in the second world war.

 

I Like the line marker...4th from bottom "Brades garden line, no pin".

I have and use one of these and have the pin too..Dad gave me his.

Steve...

 

Me too, and I have the pin Came from a car boot.

I'm contemplating getting a nice wooden sieve. I have an 18" diameter 1/2", but I need something coarser than that, either 3/4" or 1" that I can just quickly run the MPC through to catch any lumps that I can them break up by hand, or discard if they are rock hard / wooden.

They are quite dear at £30-ish, but with a little love will last a lifetime which is not, in my experience, the case with the metal ones.

 

Why not knock up something like this using 1" chicken wire (This one is 1/2" chicken wire) - £30. saved already !



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Looks good a-a I'm a bit of a sucker for some old fashion traditional tools though. The old birch sieves have some reinforcing rods under the netting, which helps support the weight of the material in the sieve, which I think would help.