Favourite or most useful tool ?

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scoffsred
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Post: # 23940Post scoffsred

Trenching spade has gotta be the best tool, only trouble is when your 2 foot down, you cant get all the loose stuff out of the bottom, i keep thinking of soup ladles for some strange reason to combat this, beats getting down on your knees and using your gloved hand..... :)

Ted
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Post: # 23941Post Ted

That is why that trowel is good to get past the 2'.

But you still have to get down on your hands and knees...

lutonlagerlout
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Post: # 23945Post lutonlagerlout

i was doing a fence today funny enough
absolute nightmare
built up ground
roots up to 2 1/2 inches from adjacent laurels
old concrete fence post 18 inches down
but for the holes my trusty hole shovel ,not the long one but the concave one,great for getting a nice round hole, i always try and go 700 deep to get a bit of crete under the post,plus i can get my arm and a pointing trowel that far down :)
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surreyhillslandscapes.com
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Post: # 23951Post surreyhillslandscapes.com

Couldn't be without my small tool trowel, brilliant for arrowhead pointing and smoothing over all those hard to reach places, also doubles as a flathead screwdriver if you can't find one..
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I've just screeded that!!!!!!!

AndyR
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Location: scotland

Post: # 23962Post AndyR

My favourite tool has to be the eazybarra multi purpose barra for moving slabs. It saves so much time and effort without the need to lift.

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