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Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2008 9:21 pm
by 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.
Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2008 10:57 pm
by lutonlagerlout
seek and ye shall find
LLL :;):
Posted: Sun Feb 10, 2008 12:47 pm
by littlejohn
Try as I may I cant find one Luton 
perhaps a more direct link for us numpties;)
Posted: Sun Feb 10, 2008 1:31 pm
by 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
Posted: Sun Feb 10, 2008 1:41 pm
by 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.
Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2008 2:00 pm
by 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.
Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2008 5:34 pm
by Dave_L
It's the same with everything - built to a price and generally of throwaway quality.
Shame.
Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2008 11:05 am
by 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
perhaps a more direct link for us numpties;)