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New Online Summer Garden Furniture Shop

Tool Trader — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 09:57:55 +0000

There is a new Summer Garden furniture store now online which provides a wide range of stock from the leading British brands in garden furniture. It is a subsection of Amazon.co.uk that offers great deals and discounts on many quality products.

Visit astore.amazon.co.uk/Summer Garden Furniture 21 today

Garden Forks

Tool Trader — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:37:41 +0000

The garden fork is every gardeners friend. The humble fork is essential is all gardens, for removing plants, tending to compost piles, aerating and turning soil.

Here are our top selling garden forks.

Alan Titchmarsh Solid Forged Digging Fork

Alan Titchmarsh Digging Fork

The Alan Titchmarsh digging fork is ideally suited for dealing with heavy compacted soil and helps break down big lumps of solid earth. It is a real solid performer, and has to be to have Alan Titchmarsh’s seal of approval.

The solid forging process used to make this tool, gives the tool its strength. By manufacturing the whole tool head out of one piece of steel, there are no areas of weakness caused by welds, which exist on non-forged products.

The ash shaft on this tool is also inserted right down into the head of the tool, giving it maximum strength.

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Alan Titchmarsh Stainless Steel Digging Fork

The Alan Titchmarsh Stainless Steel Digging Fork is a traditional English Style stainless digging fork that is perfect for all garden chores. The digging forks are easier to handle compared to the traditional heavier forks which makes penetrating compact soil and breaking down lumps of earth much more manageable.

This Stainless steel tool is also very easy to keep clean.

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Silverline 675067 930 mm Border Fork

Silverline Border Fork

The Silverline 675067 digging fork has a polypropylene shaft and YDhandle. Epoxy coated hammer finish flexibletines. Hardened to HRC 38/45 individually load tested for 3 minutes at 55kg.

A durable fork for those on a lower budget.

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Grass Trimmers – Electric and Petrol

Tool Trader — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:47:13 +0000

Draper 45576 32CC Petrol Grass Trimmer

The Draper 45576 is an excellent piece of garden machinery that makes short work of even the most overgrown borders. It is easy to start and has both line and blades for grass and brushwood.

It is driven by a 32cc 2 stroke petrol engine and has a single shaft making is very durable and robust.

It comes with a harness to support its weight and helps you to work quicker and more efficiently.

Bosch ART 23 Li – Cordless Grass Trimmer

Bosch ART 23 Li - Cordless Grass Trimmer

Although cordless electric trimmers are not as powerful as petrol trimmers, they are much lighter and easier to carry. The Bosch ART 23 Li trimmer has the new lithium ion battery installed which provides ample working time and reasonable power. Most importantly the Bosch grass trimmer is extremely lightweight weighing only 2.3kg for comfortable working.

The easy to rotate cutter head makes ‘walk behind’ edging a pleasure.

The battery takes about 3 hours to charge and give around 45 minutes of work time.

Electric Chain Saws and Petrol Chain Saws

Tool Trader — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:33:27 +0000

Chain saws are possibly the most dangerous garden tool, so should be handled with great care. We sell two types of chain saw, the electric, corded saw adn more powerful and more versatile petrol chainsaws.

Petrol powered chain saws are really the best by a long way. The cable on an electric saw can often get in the way, and when wielding a chain saw you really do not want to worry about a cable getting entangled in branches or suddenly running out of cable.

Bosch AKE 40-19S – Electric Chainsaw

Bosch AKE 40-19S - Electric Chainsaw

If you are going to buy an electric chain saw then the Bosch AJE 40-19S is probably the best choice.

This Bosch chainsaw offers excellent performance due to its high chain speeds of up to 12 m/sec. It has the speed and power to cut through wood quickly and cleanly. It comes complete with a quick stop kick-back brake and is well balanced for comfortable use at any angle.

It is lightweight and easy to handle than a petrol saw, but as mentioned above the cable can get in the way.

Draper 45574 45CC Petrol Chainsaw, 450 MM

Draper Petrol Chainsaw

The Draper 45574 45cc Petrol Chainsaw is built to expert quality. It has a 2 stroke petrol engine with a decompression button for easy starting professional internal drive sprocket.

The engine capacity is 46cc with 1900W (2.4HP) output.

Axes & Mauls

Tool Trader — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 13:34:40 +0000

For more serious garden or conservation work you need a good axe and a log splitting maul. Axes make fast work of felling small trees and mauls quickly slice through the most hardy of wood.

Silverline 763553 6 Pound Fibre Shaft Log Splitting Maul

Silverline 6 Pound Maul

The Silverline 763553 is a 6 pound maul with a fibre shaft for extra strength.

It has a drop forged carbon steel head with a heat treated, ground and polished cutting edge.

The extra long fibre glass handle has a nylon jacket.

This splitting maul makes fast work of any log pile. It has a good weight that allows the maul to split the logs quickly but it is not so heavy that you tire before the work is finished.

Faithfull Hickory Shaft Felling Axe 4.Lb

The Faithfull Hickory Shaft felling axe is a high quality drop forged felling axe with polished head, lacquered blade and painted body.

Specially shaped and curved hickory handle for efficient swinging. Correctly shaped blade for tree felling.

The head weigh 4lb. (1.75kg.) and the handle is 28in long.

Bahco Fcp-2.3-860 Felling Axe 5Lb

The Bahco FCP 2.3-860 is a great axe for felling small trees and is ideal for cutting off branches from cut down trees.

The thin blade makes it swing smoothly through the branch.

The blade is made of high quality hardened tool steel according to DIN 7287, Class B, and the blade surface is fine polished in full.

The handle,which is marked as professional, is made of first grade white hickory and is pressed into the eye with a black hardened wedge.

Weight. 5lb. (2.25kg.).

Hedge Trimmers and Cutters

Tool Trader — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 13:23:50 +0000

Hedge trimmers are essential if you wish quickly cut back overgrown hedgerows or conifers. There are now many options available, with electrical corded hedge trimmers, cordless hedge trimmers and petrol powered hedge trimmers for the more serious garden enthusiast or professional gardener. Here are our top picks.

Bosch AHS 41 Accu – Cordless Hedgecutter

Bosch AHS 41 Accu

The Bosch AHS 41 Accu hedgecutter is lightweight and very well balanced for comfortable working at any angle. It has a tooth spacing of 15mm it is ideal for trimming most hedge types.

The battery last long enough to get most garden jobs completed in one go. A good buy.

Leaf Blowers, Vacuums and Mulchers

Tool Trader — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 12:50:19 +0000

Once again autumn is upon us and the leaves are steadily falling from the leaves. For many people this is not a major problem and a rake a barrow soon clears the grass and drive of the leaves, but for those with a larger garden with many trees a leaf blower / leaf vacuum is essential.

A good leaf blower / vacuum now does more than just tidy leaves – many now come equipped with a mulcher so that you can easily create your own mulch to protect plants over the winter.

Draper 45543 2200W Garden Vac Blower and Mulcher

Draper 45543 Garden Vac

The Draper 45543 is a powerful garden blower vac that makes tidying up autumn leaves a real breeze. Operation is simple, just blow the leaves into a pile and then switch to vacuum to suck the leaves up in to the 45 litre mulch bag.

It comes with a shoulder strap and also a pavement attachment to allow you to use it as a household vacuum cleaner, keeping the nozzle at a constant distance off the ground.

Black & Decker 2600 Watt Blower / Vacuum Shredder

Black & Decker Leaf Blower

Like all Black and Decker tools the Black and Decker 2600 Leaf Blower and Vacuum Shredder is a high performing and reliable tool.

The 2600 watts provides ample power to make fast work of the largest leaf falls. The shredding blades make the bag space up to 10 times more efficient making work faster. There is also a wet leaf scraper. The bag is easy to empty and can collect up to 350 litres of shredded leaves.

Flymo Garden Vac 2700

The Flymo GV2700 machine has a special Unique 4 in 1 system. It blows, vacs, shreds, and jet vacs. The jet vacuum collection of wet leaves does not clog the machine. It has an easy mode change with simple lever. The cable length is 2 metres. This machine is very versatile and can pick up almost all kinds of debris – not just leaves. It makes tidying the garden easy and fun.