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Broken trowel handle on a dig in Ohio last week stopped me cold
I was working a site near Chillicothe, cleaning up a pit feature, and my favorite trowel just snapped at the handle. The wooden part split right down the middle. I had to spend the rest of the day using a backup that kept slipping in my hand. Has anyone else had a favorite tool break at the worst possible time during fieldwork?
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ray1363d ago
Picked up a cheap hickory replacement handle from a hardware store and sanded it down to match the shape of my old one. Took about an hour with some medium grit paper and a coat of linseed oil. Let it dry overnight and it felt almost like the original in my hand. That split handle taught me to keep a backup trowel with a rubber handle in my kit for wet days.
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harper_foster1d ago
Ugh, tell me about it. Nothing like a busted trowel to make you question every life choice that led you to digging in the cold dirt... I swear it always happens on the worst days too, not during a lunch break where you could just swap it out. My favorite Marshalltown snapped at the tang once and I spent the rest of the afternoon trying to grip a rusty garden spade from the truck. That's karma for not having a backup, I guess.
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