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repairing wooden handled digging fork
Wooden handled digging forks often break because moisture is trapped in the socket and the wood rots. People often toss them away when they calculate the cost of the hard wood replacement and the time and skill needed to carry out the job.
I salvage the fork heads, grind the holding rivet and punch it out to release the broken wood stub from the socket. I replace the handle with my 1 1/4in o.d. stainless steel pipe I scrounge from department store display racks. The piece in the photo was 8 1/2 ft. long, so cut in half it is 4'3 " long, enough for two forks.
repairing wooden handled digging fork
Wooden handled digging forks often break because moisture is trapped in the socket and the wood rots. People often toss them away when they calculate the cost of the hard wood replacement and the time and skill needed to carry out the job.
I salvage the fork heads, grind the holding rivet and punch it out to release the broken wood stub from the socket. I replace the handle with my 1 1/4in o.d. stainless steel pipe I scrounge from department store display racks. The piece in the photo was 8 1/2 ft. long, so cut in half it is 4'3 " long, enough for two forks.