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Smallholding => Equipment => Topic started by: GribinIsaf on February 01, 2020, 04:17:09 pm

Title: Mystery object
Post by: GribinIsaf on February 01, 2020, 04:17:09 pm
Can anyone help me identify this tool? It is about three feet long.
Title: Re: Mystery object
Post by: SallyintNorth on February 01, 2020, 05:03:32 pm
It's a "dashel basher".  Use it to swipe at nettles to cut them down.
Title: Re: Mystery object
Post by: arobwk on February 01, 2020, 05:05:59 pm
Yeah, it's a weed slasher.  Never tried one.
Title: Re: Mystery object
Post by: GribinIsaf on February 01, 2020, 05:08:19 pm
Great.  Thanks.  Got it for £1 at the local recycling centre because it looked very useful.  I just did not know what for.  Now I do.
Title: Re: Mystery object
Post by: Womble on February 01, 2020, 05:24:44 pm
They're pretty good! Just like a strimmer, but more therapeutic, and don't leave lots of little bits of plastic all over your garden!
Title: Re: Mystery object
Post by: arobwk on February 02, 2020, 03:58:08 pm
Quote from: GribinIsaf on February 01, 2020, 05:08:19 pm
... Got it for £1 at the local recycling centre because it looked very useful. ...

I keep hearing about folk finding stuff at recycling centres, but I don't think Cornish centres have a re-sell section and there was definitely a time when they prohibited on-site exchanges between recyclers.  I shall have to check out to see whether Cornish centres are applying a bit of common sense these days.
Title: Re: Mystery object
Post by: SallyintNorth on February 02, 2020, 08:36:55 pm
In 2005 I moved back to North Devon and equipped myself pretty well from the recycling centres in Barnstaple, Ilfracombe and South Molton!  Surely Cornwall has caught its neighbour up by now... ;)