Denny and Kathy, who seem to run an Ace Hardware dealership, are selling the Fiskars 8511 hand drill for $10.79. The Fiskars — a basic, small, cheap, eggbeater-style hand drill — works well for small jobs where there’s no need for a cordless drill. Of course, you can often find a vintage one on Ebay for about the same price.
Fiskars 8511 Hand Drill [Denny and Kathy's]
Street Pricing [Google Products]
I remember a time before weed whackers — at least before my family had one — a time when men and women would crawl around the yard on their knees with a hand shear to trim the grass at the edge of the lawn. Whether it was a better time or just a simpler time may be up for debate, but if Fiskars’ long-handled swivel grass shears had been around, they would’ve spared us a lot of strained backs and sore knees.
Father’s Day is coming, and if your dad already has a chipper shredder, this Fiskars tree pruner will compliment it nicely. It slices, it dices, it even juliennes… wait… The pole tree pruner will add an extra 12′ to your reach, which makes a huge difference whether you’re on the ground or swinging from limb to limb.
Kangaroos are famous for their expandable pouches, so what else would Fiskars call a container that’s just 3″ tall but expands to hold up to 30 gallons of wet grass or leaves but the Kangaroo Barrel? Our favorite feature: small holes in its bottom drain off excess moisture so you don’t waste effort carrying around water weight.
If you’ve made the decision to go the hand operated route vis a vis shrubbery surgery, some heavy duty gear is in order, like Fiskars’ gear-driven lopper — the PowerGear.
The handles on the big lopper are nylon-fiberglass composite that Fiskars calls “Nyglass,” which they also claim is extremely difficult to break. The blade is good ‘ole hardened steel with an innovative non-stick coating and connects to a gear mechanism that Fiskars says reduces the force required to operate the tool by half.
Oh yeah, and it looks like a medieval torture device. I think that fits in great with trimming hedges, which I think of as torture anyway. (more…)
Fiskars recently released the Power Gear Bypass Pruners – a set of garden shears that looks like most others, but has a few features that make us suspect that at least some of the engineers at Fiskars have gardened enough to end up with blisters. We sure have.
Mom always said gardening was “nature’s reward.” We always wondered why “nature’s reward” involved so much dirt and sweating. Why not a free dinner? Or maybe a cordless combo kit?
Anyway, the bulb transplanter from Fiskers is aimed at removing some of the difficult and often frustrating process of digging, removing, and placing a fragile bulb or plant into its new home. Think of it as a way to speed up the planting process and help place you back in your home faster.
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