Home made handles

[organic guy]

My new book as recommended above says all sorbus species suitable for handles , Rowan was even sometimes used as a replacement for yew in longbows. 

[AHPP]

40 minutes ago, organic guy said:

Rowan was even sometimes used as a replacement for yew in longbows

 

Now that is interesting. 

[Dan Maynard]

4 hours ago, Rich Rule said:

Usually pretty straight and lasts a decent shift.

To be fair my rake is lasting ok, changed the handle a couple of times and just need to change the head again now.

[sime42]

There was a Bowyer on here a while back I remember. It'd be interesting to get his thoughts on the subject.

[woody paul]

I gave up with wooden handles a couple of years ago, all alley. 

Just bought bulldog stuff and kept handles and bought a new head. 

[sime42]

https://www.google.com/search?q=rowan timber uses&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-b-m

 

It's reassuring to see the number of times that Arbtalk comes up on Google for things like this.

 

 

 

 

[Macpherson]

38 minutes ago, sime42 said:

https://www.google.com/search?q=rowan timber uses&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-b-m

 

It's reassuring to see the number of times that Arbtalk comes up on Google for things like this.

 

 

 

 

 

Yeah, it's really interesting to find out what our ancestors new about the nature of what's all around us before possibly millennia of accumulated knowledge was discarded by those who seek to benefit from patenting everything that would previously been free to all.

 

Another good example of this is the Birch tree, which grows all around the northern hemisphere and has many uses from fire lighting to medicine,...but not tool handles.

 

Without wanting to derail the thread I think some on here might be interested in this vid of Dartington food forest in Devon which may be struggling to survive in the coming years.

 

 

[sime42]

Yeah, Totness is a bit of a strange place, always has been. Very "alternative" let's say.

 

It's a shame that they barely talked about the Forest Garden in that report, much more detail on the agroforestry would have been better. Its an interesting and potentially fruitful research topic.

[nepia]

That sounds like a place I will wander around one day that's near here - Stanmer Organics in Stanmer Park, Brighton.

It's Brighton so the Park is very hippy and organic but that doesn't make the people bad.  I buy tree saplings there for very little that have been grown from locally (=Sussex) sourced seed

[sime42]

I've never quite got my head around the idea of agroforestry. You can obviously grow a wide variety of fruit, nuts and seeds on the trees themselves, but I'm not sure how you can get enough light, (and water), underneath them to grow all the veggies or anything else. Maybe it's just a sparse forest with lots of clearings.