WHS Trowels

[BAJR Host]

some damn good ones coming in (vulpes must have a lot of time on his hands ! )




"I don't have an archaeological imagination.."
Borekickers

[andy.bicket]

quote:Originally posted by vulpes

Yeah Bicket. They were on the reserve list. Nice try though youth.

'Youth' Don't let that 'digger level' tag fool you...beneath there lurks a mind as sharp as a stick, or indeed a WHS trowel...boom boom!

Don't feel big or clever...

Wetsieving Hunchbacked Slave
Woeful Health & Safety
Willful Hack & Slash

...now for the big guns

Why Have Silk...when you can have WHS?

Incidentally, how many trademark laws can we break?:face-huh:

[vulpes]

quote:vulpes must have a lot of time on his hands !

Or insomnia!

Wetsieving Hunchbacked Slave - Autobiographical, hmmm... nice angle!

[vulpes]

Or a slight dig at Indy -

Whips? (real archaeologists) Have Steel!

[med]

Won't harm stratigraphy

will help sexlife (don't go there[:o)])

would have helped Shakespeare

Will have souvenir [of life as a field archaeologist when 90, trowel still in use and the point is whittled down to a teaspoon]

Sorry, just woke up after a long night with bad dreams about fieldwork.

[mercenary]

Won't Horribly Snap.

Unlike Marshalltowns.

[vulpes]

errrr.... Work-Horse from Sheffield?

[Austin Ainsworth]

quote:Originally posted by mercenary

Won't Horribly Snap.

Unlike Marshalltowns.

Mashalltown as well as WHS went through a process of "redevelopment", original type Marshalltown trowels are às good as they ever were. wooden handled Marshalltowns are as good as original pattern WHS trowels. The original WHS trowel is fantastic for "stoney" ground, the Marshalltown is ideal for "sandy" ground and another option is the German "Jaeterhand" (kratzer) for ripping vertical sections. The WHS much beloved of Brit archaeologists is a fantastic tool but has very definite limitations, I've noted with some amusement the jingoistic attachment of Bajrites to the WHS trowel, come on folks; drop the nationalistic parochialism and consider the possibility that the rest of the world may have something to offer, (tool technology is only the start).

[gumbo]

Want high standards?

[Gog]

quote:Originally posted by Austin Ainsworth
I've noted with some amusement the jingoistic attachment of Bajrites to the WHS trowel, come on folks; drop the nationalistic parochialism and consider the possibility that the rest of the world may have something to offer, (tool technology is only the start).

The point of the thread is specifically about WHS trowels. Having (gently) chided us for not taking it awfully seriously earlier, are you now suggesting we go off-topic? :face-stir: