Removing broken spade handle

[spandit]

This is how I do it:

Drill down as far as possible and as much as you can. Then fill with paraffin & enjoy a little flickering candlelight...

 

[sandbender]

Brilliant

 

[Macaroon]

Excellent! Have you tried this with four candles yet?

 

[spandit]

Thing is. Went to the local hardware shop today & a replacement handle is almost as much as a new shovel. With the work involved in fitting it, I might not bother with the other two I've snapped!

 

[Fraxinus]

Excellent! Have you tried this with four candles yet?

Normally one just drills out the rivet/s and make new ones from big nails....but that is much less fun than your method Spandit

Rob.

 

[Muddypaws]

Thing is. Went to the local hardware shop today & a replacement handle is almost as much as a new shovel.

It's a sad state of affairs when a new item is as cheap as a repair (not including your own time)

That said, the spade you show looks to be a decent heavy duty item, with a closed socket for the handle. Some cheaper modern tools are more lightly constructed with an open socket - these won't be as good.

 

[Fraxinus]

Thing is. Went to the local hardware shop today & a replacement handle is almost as much as a new shovel. With the work involved in fitting it, I might not bother with the other two I've snapped!

You could have a go at making your own, before Ash die back kills every remaining tree we have (according to an article on R4 today...we're doomed, doomed I tell ye!)
Rob.

 

[richardhomer]

You could have a go at making your own, before Ash die back kills every remaining tree we have (according to an article on R4 today...we're doomed, doomed I tell ye!)
Rob.

Its a sad state for the Ash tree.

 

[Fraxinus]

Its a sad state for the Ash tree.

Yeah, I know. But it was not helped by the guy they interviewed who was on about a secondary threat that has not yet arrived here...he seemed wholly focused on the doom and gloom with no thoughts of solutions and no balancing interview with a solution orientated person to follow up.
Pardon me for being a bit tongue in cheek in my previous post.

Rob.

 

[Wild wandering woodsman]

You could have a go at making your own, before Ash die back kills every remaining tree we have (according to an article on R4 today...we're doomed, doomed I tell ye!)
Rob.

Couple of weeks back on countryfile they ere showing about ash dieback and they seem to be curing it with biochar and an air hoe. So far they seem to have very successful results, although there is further research needed it may not be all doom and gloom for Fraxinus Excelsior just yet

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[forginhill]

Clever! That's a trick I'll remember. Thanks for sharing...