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[GnomeKing]

i like krafters - hard to get hold of - i had to 'borrow' from a unit years ago and haven't seen them anywhere since.....

[trainedchimp]

Heres yesterdays negative result but it was sunny for the first time in weeks

Run! He's got Vulcans (or elves) digging the site!

[Unitof1]

cambridge, probably got a straight handle

[GnomeKing]

haft since broke - cant find a non-straight one like the original...- have a nice piece of shapley roundwood ash that i keep meaning to carve into a new extra long haft...

[kevin wooldridge]

Its time for that regular 'annual' about the Norwegian hoe. The tool is caled a 'krafse' and it is possible to buy them from Norwegian, Swedish or German stockists. I have recently written to Fiskars UK offshoot based in Bridgend asking whether they could import these tools into the UK. I will let you all know if they answer.

Cost of the basic tool in Norway is about ?50....

[Unitof1]

[ATTACH=CONFIG]412[/ATTACH] whats the german name for this tool, lost mine recently and am missing it lots. I think is also called a kratze type name. The only place I have found them is on australian sites called garden weeder/planter. But they are made by wolfgarten but on the german sites I keep geting things called Fugenkratzer

[BAJR]

Ate.... talked to Fiskars as well... jsut not the demand for it... and I would love to see the archaeologist who will put there hands in their pockets for a tool costing 50 quid when the cost of a trowel is seen as a huge deal

[GnomeKing]

hence the 'borrowing' - i also have one of those weeding tool things - but it was given (genuinley) to me so i dont know whats it called

[kevin wooldridge]

[ATTACH=CONFIG]412[/ATTACH] whats the german name for this tool, lost mine recently and am missing it lots. I think is also called a kratze type name. The only place I have found them is on australian sites called garden weeder/planter. But they are made by wolfgarten but on the german sites I keep geting things called Fugenkratzer

Fugenkratzer translates as 'jointed scraper' which kinda looks like it describes the pictured tool......The Norwegian word 'krafse' can be translated as scraper or scratcher.....the most appropriate tool for those of us that scratch a living from archaeology.....

[kevin wooldridge]

Ate.... talked to Fiskars as well... jsut not the demand for it... and I would love to see the archaeologist who will put there hands in their pockets for a tool costing 50 quid when the cost of a trowel is seen as a huge deal

I agree a krafse is not cheap, but...

. kept well maintained it can last 10 years or more,
. is less likely to be lost than a trowel,
. is better for your knees, back and hands than conventional hoes,
. gives you plenty of kudos amongst the cogniscenti of UK diggers
. and is much more impressive to members of the opposite sex than a collection of 'mini trowels'....