Cleaning And Oiling Garden Tools, Secateurs cleaning and sharpening.
Today we cleaned some gardening tools ready for winter storage, using linseed oil, light oil.
We also showed how to clean and sharpen the secateurs.
Episode 293.
Music Snowy Peaks By Chris Haugen.
I think you are such a wonderful communicator and each time you have something to say I am struck by how it is always exactly what I want to know in that moment!. Your knowledge and experience make your videos essential viewing. Thank you!
I'm saving this video in my Castle Hill Garden File. I can't thank you enough for all of the wonderful skills you have taught me! Have some fabulous Holidays! Much Love.
Another very nice video Cliff/ Diane, you have to take care of your tools…… keep them clean and sharpe and they’ll work better for you ! Thanks for sharing on how to achieve it…… Hope you dry out soon, keep well and safe and will hope to see you both on the next edition! 👍👍
Thank you for your advice, will do this to my tools this year. I prefer long shafts on my tools due to a bad back but my husband buys longer ones from hardware shop and puts them on, makes it a lot easier on my back. Very wet here too underfoot making it hard to get anything done and I am behind. Another brilliant video, take care both of you x
Really useful, my secateurs are a disgrace! I’ll put cleaning nearer the top of my list. I presume you use each pair of secateurs for a different purpose?? Which jobs do you use your number 7 to do?
Great to see you highlight the proper care of tools. I was able to save my Grandpa's garden tools from the bin and have used them more than my own. They cleaned up quite nicely after being neglected for so long. The pitchfork is a little dry but have stopped the decay somewhat with a dab of oil at the end of the Season. The rust and dirt was easily taken care of with a light sanding and a drop of oil. I too have found much of the new garden equipment to be a little too compact. Which makes these "old" garden relics more valuable.
Dear Cliff and Diane, just wanted to tell you that after putting off sorting and tying up my raspberries for literally years, your video about it which I watched recently was the inspiration for me to get motivated and do it (I'm in Australia). I'm looking forward to being able to pick them more easily this summer. Thanks so much. – I'm a big fan.
Hi Cliff So happy you put this video up but I have a question. Can I use Danish oil instead of Linseed oil.? To oil the handles. I have a pair of Felco secetures and they are really not sharp as I have had them years. So I will have a go this weekend.
Hi and thank you for your very much needed and useful advice because I'm relatively new to gardening. As usual very nice, useful video and you have a calm and truly pleasant character. God bless.
Thank you for this presentation, sir….I inherited several garden tools from my grandfather who emigrated from England at the turn of last century (1900). He was a gardener on several large estates in the Cotswold/Hereford area. The metal plate on the garden fork reads manufactured by C T Skelton, Sheffield, England. My mother was a fanatic about maintaining these tools and I'm now the happy gardener who gets to use them. I handle them with respect and channel my grandfather every time I use them
Dear Cliff, It is always a challenge for me to find a proper sturdy fork. It bends all the time. Maybe you have an advise for me, a fork of what brand to acquire and where to go to get it?
Beautiful old tools , well cared for . We have an saying when it comes to applying linseed oil the first time …once a day for a week , once a week for a month , once a month for a year ! I refuse to buy new tools as manufacturing is terrible and they put out junk ! You sir are a treasure , thanks for sharing you knowledge !!
This is my first summer on my allotment ( its been three months of weeding mainly ) and your videos are so full of knowledge, im so grateful to have found your channel 💜
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I think you are such a wonderful communicator and each time you have something to say I am struck by how it is always exactly what I want to know in that moment!. Your knowledge and experience make your videos essential viewing. Thank you!
Thank you. Very useful video…as all your videos are ☺️
Little change of flavour but welcome!
I'm saving this video in my Castle Hill Garden File. I can't thank you enough for all of the wonderful skills you have taught me! Have some fabulous Holidays! Much Love.
nice viideo cliff
I don't know what it is, but it's enjoying and relaxing to watch you handle the old tools.
Another very nice video Cliff/ Diane, you have to take care of your tools…… keep them clean and sharpe and they’ll work better for you ! Thanks for sharing on how to achieve it…… Hope you dry out soon, keep well and safe and will hope to see you both on the next edition! 👍👍
Thank you for your advice, will do this to my tools this year. I prefer long shafts on my tools due to a bad back but my husband
buys longer ones from hardware shop and puts them on, makes it a lot easier on my back. Very wet here too underfoot making it hard to get anything done and I am behind. Another brilliant video, take care both of you x
Thank you! Learned a lot.
This is wonderfully interesting love your videos
Really useful, my secateurs are a disgrace! I’ll put cleaning nearer the top of my list. I presume you use each pair of secateurs for a different purpose?? Which jobs do you use your number 7 to do?
Hi Cliff and lovely Diane your instructions and detail is brilliant I do enjoy watching. Keep safe Bill and val
Best lessons for all who have tools they want to keep for years! Thanks for sharing, 😊❤
Thank you for your wonderful advice
Great to see you highlight the proper care of tools. I was able to save my Grandpa's garden tools from the bin and have used them more than my own. They cleaned up quite nicely after being neglected for so long. The pitchfork is a little dry but have stopped the decay somewhat with a dab of oil at the end of the Season. The rust and dirt was easily taken care of with a light sanding and a drop of oil.
I too have found much of the new garden equipment to be a little too compact. Which makes these "old" garden relics more valuable.
Excellent advice! I know what I’ll be doing this week! Many thanks Cliff
Hi Cliff and Diane, good advice keeping tools in good condition ready for the next season saves time and money. Thank you, take care.
Dear Cliff and Diane, just wanted to tell you that after putting off sorting and tying up my raspberries for literally years, your video about it which I watched recently was the inspiration for me to get motivated and do it (I'm in Australia). I'm looking forward to being able to pick them more easily this summer. Thanks so much. – I'm a big fan.
Вы очень хозяйственный и аккуратный человек! И очень добрый. Живите долго и счастливо, и будьте здоровы!
Thank you for this video very clear and easy to follow I will have a go at shipping down my secatures now.
Hello Cliff how ru doing u are skillfull and at the same time u have so much patience to do all these things
Hi Cliff So happy you put this video up but I have a question. Can I use Danish oil instead of Linseed oil.? To oil the handles. I have a pair of Felco secetures and they are really not sharp as I have had them years. So I will have a go this weekend.
Hi and thank you for your very much needed and useful advice because I'm relatively new to gardening. As usual very nice, useful video and you have a calm and truly pleasant character. God bless.
Hi cliff one question why do you never use a rotavator??
Craig whitmore Warwickshire
Love this !!!
The fork at 7:27, which manufacturer could it be? maybe Sneeboer?
Best Regards, Jan
Thank you for this presentation, sir….I inherited several garden tools from my grandfather who emigrated from England at the turn of last century (1900). He was a gardener on several large estates in the Cotswold/Hereford area. The metal plate on the garden fork reads manufactured by C T Skelton, Sheffield, England. My mother was a fanatic about maintaining these tools and I'm now the happy gardener who gets to use them. I handle them with respect and channel my grandfather every time I use them
Dear Cliff, It is always a challenge for me to find a proper sturdy fork. It bends all the time. Maybe you have an advise for me, a fork of what brand to acquire and where to go to get it?
Beautiful old tools , well cared for . We have an saying when it comes to applying linseed oil the first time …once a day for a week , once a week for a month , once a month for a year ! I refuse to buy new tools as manufacturing is terrible and they put out junk ! You sir are a treasure , thanks for sharing you knowledge !!
This is my first summer on my allotment ( its been three months of weeding mainly ) and your videos are so full of knowledge, im so grateful to have found your channel 💜