Lost an old friend

[kebab10]

Lost an old friend today after having it for almost 31 years.


My trusty garden spade has given up. Went to dig a hole today and it creased up, folded like a paper. Only cost about £5 from Debenhams all those years ago and its noe in the skip. Not bad for £5 I think.

[docjd]

Thats impressive

[Warrington]

Lost an old friend today after having it for almost 31 years.


My trusty garden spade has given up. Went to dig a hole today and it creased up, folded like a paper. Only cost about £5 from Debenhams all those years ago and its noe in the skip. Not bad for £5 I think.

Can't you dig a hole and bury it...... Or is that just too insensitive of me seeing as you probably don't have anything to dig with?

[kebab10]

As its done a lot of digging over the years, it seems only fitting that it should be recycled downt tip so as could make another or a fork perhaps. Sad, so sad. And have you seen how much a new one costs?

[nm1985]

My dad had the same spade for almost 40 years.

It only needed 3 new heads and 5 new bodies in the time he had it!

[Toplights]

If you had bought stainless:lightbulb:;you would still be digging with it.:hidesbehindsofa:

[Toplights]

My dad had the same spade for almost 40 years.

It only needed 3 new heads and 5 new bodies in the time he had it!
Good old Trigger.

[scottishvolvo]

I'd be contacting who-ever the manufacturer was. 31 years ?? Obviously not fit for purpose. Write to them with a pic and they might send you a new one.

[kebab10]

If you had bought stainless:lightbulb:;you would still be digging with it.:hidesbehindsofa:

Do you know how much they cost? An arm, leg and neck!

[brodgar]

you should have given it a dignified burriel

[NI_Volvo_Nut]

I've had the same brush for the last 30 years, and my Granda had it for 50 years before that!!

Its only had 12 new shafts and 16 new heads too!!

Oh, LoL :D

[IanGEC]

err.... a new ash handle would have cost about £7.50 from that well known south american jungle website.... add a bit of fettlin and good for another 30 years

[kebab10]

err.... a new ash handle would have cost about £7.50 from that well known south american jungle website.... add a bit of fettlin and good for another 30 years
Yes, but the actual steel spadey bit, the digging end folded up like a wet paper! Tis gone now.
Used to have grandparents at Whitecross, Wadebridge Cornwall you knows, not your one though.

[lyron]

tut tut they just don't make things to last anymore.

:animal-smiley-027::animal-smiley-037:

[DaveNP]

If you had bought stainless:lightbulb:;you would still be digging with it.:hidesbehindsofa:
I bought a stainless one.
It's lovely and shiny, and it's great for digging where somone else has already dug up the ground before you, but show it a bit of compacted hardened ground and it crumples like a wet tissue, at least I'm learning panel beating!

[kebab10]

Going shopping for a new one on Friday. Got some more holes to dig.

Oh well.

[Anadinolin]

http://central-plant-hire.co.uk/3-ton-volvo-mini-digger-1.jpg

I got one of these in my shed...volvo branded too! i hope the spade on his thing dosent crumple up like a wet tissue

[kebab10]

Got a new spade at last. If this one lasts as long, they can use it to dig my hole!