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Why does nowhere sell long handled spades?

  • 17-03-2014 9:17am
    #1
    Wabbit Ears
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    Seriously, I really dont like using short handled ones and was in 3 different DIY stores and a garden center yesterday and not one had a proper :) spade. What gives, are they just that unpopular? Am I an old school freak that hasnt seen the light of the wonderfull twistyness of D handled legomen sized spades?


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  • #2
    Norfolk Enchants_
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 661 ✭✭✭Norfolk Enchants_


    Must just be sold out, bought one 2 weeks ago in the local CO-OP shop


  • #3
    barry75
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    http://www.hls.ie/products-page/shovels-rakes/darby-digging-spade/
    I have one like in link ,bought it in Connaught Gold .If you have a look in your local Co Op I am sure they will stock them


  • #4
    Wabbit Ears
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,043 ✭✭✭Wabbit Ears


    yep, i think Whites by balbriggan stocks them true temper ones also but Arro, Homebase, Woodies and Blacks Garden center all had none!!


  • #5
    Sgt Pepper 64
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,627 ✭✭✭Sgt Pepper 64


    Wabbit Ears wrote: »
    yep, i think Whites by balbriggan stocks them true temper ones also but Arro, Homebase, Woodies and Blacks Garden center all had none!!

    B&Q?


  • #6
    chessman
    Registered Users Posts: 74 ✭✭chessman


    Wabbit Ears wrote: »
    Seriously, I really dont like using short handled ones and was in 3 different DIY stores and a garden center yesterday and not one had a proper :) spade. What gives, are they just that unpopular? Am I an old school freak that hasnt seen the light of the wonderfull twistyness of D handled legomen sized spades?

    try chadwicks or any builders providers,they should have them.


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  • #7
    Wabbit Ears
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,043 ✭✭✭Wabbit Ears


    Sgt Pepper 64 wrote: »
    B&Q?

    Didnt make it down to B&Q, will try midweek but methinks ye are all just assuming, as I did, that everywhere sold these...Its all LIES goddammit, lulling us all into a false sense of spade choice freedom


  • #8
    My Potatoes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 225 ✭✭My Potatoes


    They tend to be much rarer than the short handled types and you'd do better looking in a farmers' co-op than in a garden centre.
    The long handle gives much better leverage and though the tool itself is heavier it'll save you elbow-grease in the long run.
    Apparently those stirrup-handled short spades, forks, etc. came to prominence in the coal fields of England. Until then the long handle was the norm but compact versions were required for the coal mines. These would be taken home at the end of the shift and were used in the garden on the weekend.
    I did a lot of searching over the last few years to get a long handled stainless steel fork and a long handled stainless steel flat-edge spade. I eventually just bought the shorter versions and put a long handle on them. Worth the effort!


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