Im a firm beleiver in the term - Buy cheap buy twice, and I regularly use it. I invest in the best and most expensive machinery I can afford and need.
The question i ask is - What do you use for your hand tools, I decided i would invest gradually as there not cheap in Jospehp Bentley tools.
I just gone through my 4th / 5 border fork. Not impressed at all. I've emailed JB themselves and obviously taken all 4 back to the local Brentwood retailer and exchanged them.
They have broke in the wood (Base), Metal (Base) and a fork has pinged off, this has all been done by general border digging. I'm now at the point of changing from JB and moving over to another manufacturer. Who would you recommend?, I don't mind the price as long as there good, reliable and more to the point will not brake.
I was thinking of complaining to the RHS and also asking who they recommend, I know they recommend Felco for pruning, I wondered who they recommend for hand tools.
Any comments as always would be much appreciated.
Kind Regards
Andrew Palmer
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We use faithfull border forks - no problems as of yet and have been using them for over 3 years.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0001IWT28/ref=oh_details_o09_s0...
Nick
Spear and Jackson stuff here, contractor for the landscaping and other often older bits for gardening.
I'm amazed you carried on buying them after the first 2 broke....one breakage you can put down to bad luck but a second one shows its just not up to the job you're giving it!! I wonder if you might be giving the tools a bit of a hard time and expecting them to do heavier work than they were intended for.
Yes I've emailed jb a very disappointed customer email, and they've offered me a few JB items in compensation. I'm moving now. I wanted to also find out if It was a dodgy batch!
they look a bit fancy to be any good for any substantial work
personally have mostly all spear and jackson neverbend spades and shovels and fork had them for a couple if years or so the only thing that is letting go is the wooden handle on the trench shovel as it has started to split but still useable
Have you thought about an all steel contractors fork ? After all that's what you are.
http://www.arco.co.uk/products/3172167
The manufacturer of hand forged JS Country Tools is a member of this site, I believe. Simon, where are you? This discussion concerns you!
Ah. There you are. Posting a J S Country Tools blog on Landscape Juice. Click on the blogs tab in the navigation bar above, folks. They look good to me. Nope! There isn't a blogs link. It's a post about the blog.The only hand tools I use are Bulldog - 5 years of hard abuse and the only damage is dented shaffts from total neglect. I had one Bently mfork as a xmas gift in 2011, It snapped (metal neck) in spring 2012 - they are crap, put simply, I;ve got £4.99 wilkinson fork from when I left my bulldog in a customers garden and needed one sharpish.... its lasted longer.
Bulldog I say again... they are solid and have a great balence to them
Did someone call me lol
Yes J S Country Tools are members here an yes we are always on hand to help with tools. I wont sales pitch this thread as that's not what we are about. However I will confirm our tools are hand forged for quality and strength. They also carry a 5 year guarantee (you break it, we replace it)
if you ask about, a few firms on here use our gear and have had nothing but 5 * reviews on the products. Ill stop now cos it's starting to sound pitchy.
Any questions just ping me a MSG, happy to help!
Kind Regards
Simon
It's usually a staff v boss thing and the staff win by miles when it comes down to breakages!!
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