Rubber'n'fibre maul - The elusive stringy

[Joebuckley]

hi guys
can anyone tell me where i can get a rubber'n'fibre maul? or string maul as i kno it? my last 1 was nicked an had i known how hard they are to come across i would hav taken more care ov it. cheers.

[lutonlagerlout]

seek and ye shall find
LLL :;):

[littlejohn]

Try as I may I cant find one Luton perhaps a more direct link for us numpties;)

[lutonlagerlout]

sorry mate,have you tried contacting any of the tool suppliers?
if anyone here knows i expect it would be the gaffer
cheers LLL

[littlejohn]

Tried just about every supplier in North London all there interested in, is selling me wooden beedles that last a day before they split.Going through them at an alarming rate,in fact Id go as far to say I could easily be responsable for the disappearence of the rain forests.

[Tony McC]

Way back in the 1960s, before the rubber mauls became popular, wooden mauls were *always* iron-bound, which meant that had two steel hoops banded around the business ends of the head. I remember my owld feller heating up new hoops on a gas ring, forcing them onto the head of a new maul and then quenching the lot to shrink the steel tight around the wood.

The modern wooden mauls tend to be much bigger: they are betels rather than mauls, and there're no steel bands. One of the gangs I know in that London uses the placky strapping tapes used to lash together packs of block pavers to keep his betel/maul intact. He even has one of the little gadgets that tighten the straps and crimp the clip into place. He seems to have to replace the strapping a couple of times a week, whereas the steel hoops used to last for at least a season.

[Dave_L]

It's the same with everything - built to a price and generally of throwaway quality.

Shame.

[haggistini]

i cut a 3/rd off the handle of mine and wham a few large jubile clips each end from b&q and gaffer tape em! and she's a ripe old age of 5 months