Garden tools are expensive and should last for several seasons. Proper cleaning and care will protect your tools and give you ...

Think of a Stone Age hand axe and you may imagine a simple teardrop shape hewn from flint. But archaeologists in Denmark have uncovered a rare 5,500-year old axe complete with its wooden handle. The ...

If ever there was a peak season when Canadians face the trouble of loose or broken wooden tool handles, summer is it. If jobs at the cottage, camp or country place have brought to light deficiencies ...

If you have old kitchen tools gathering dust, you might be sitting on more than just memories. Many antique kitchen items that were once everyday essentials are now attracting collectors and can be ...

If you have even the slightest green tinge to your thumb, it’s hard to resist accumulating yard tools. It starts innocently enough with a hose and a rake, and then one day you wake up and it looks ...

No matter how you slice it, chopping firewood isn’t easy, but a good splitting axe makes all the difference. Wood splitting tools come in a wide array of styles, lengths, and weights, so you have ...

Accumulated ice on your sidewalk isn’t just annoying—it’s also extremely dangerous. While a snow shovel can handle the powdery stuff, if you want to manually remove ice from your sidewalk, you’ll need ...

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Explore the difference between tools that look like hammers but serve other purposes. Learn how design and function define ...

Some gear (vintage campers, longbows, and surfboards) should be made from wood. But ice tools, which need to be insanely durable and strong? They’ve always been made from metal—and for good ...

I don’t know the last time you had to buy, or replace a common gardening tool, like a turning fork, shovel, hoe, rake, loppers, sledge hammer, mattock or some other item, but the current inflation ...

Some would say gardening tools are just tools, but for me they are a kind of an old friend, in a weird sort of way. I've got a couple of shovels with the fiberglass handles, but I just don't care for ...