How to Replace Broken Lawn Tools Handles

The handle or metal part of the tools you use in the yard, including the shovel, hoe, pole saw and a range of other tools with their wooden pole handles always seem to outlast your handles that are made of metal.

If you have a broken handle, it can be such a bother when you are trying to get work done in the garden or lawn area. Usually, the tool is now completely useless. Sometimes, just replacing the tool entirely is cheaper than trying to fix it, although a brand-new tool can be frustrating in and of itself sometimes. If you have the right tool and the right solution, replacing just the handle can be an inexpensive and viable option.

If you need to make a replacement handle, it should be of a very fine quality wood, such as ash wood or maple wood. For this reason, sometimes it can cost more to replace the handle than to just buy a new tool entirely. Sometimes, though, certain tools make the replacement option completely worthwhile. If you are choosing wood for your handle, it will need to be treated in order to prevent stress fractures, building more resistance and also treated to prevent rot.

If you have a good tool, it will be joined to the handle by a strong screw, not a rivet. If so, your handle replacement option just got a lot easier. You can pull out the screws and then pull out the broken part. Sometimes, it will be wedged in deeply with the tool. If this is the case, you can remove the broken portion by clamping the handle into a vice and then putting a pair of wooden screws in the end of it. You can pull the wedged piece out with a pair of vice grips and then use the screws as something to give you leverage and pull the piece out with.

You can then clean out the remaining wood leftover with a file or other long, hard stick-like piece. Essentially, you want to have it completely cleaned out so that you can find an identical handle in there and once again replace it with strong screws.

If your new handle hasn’t been varnished for its entire length, you should varnish the whole thing and let it dry before you insert it in the handle. You will also want to coast the inside portion of the metal sleeve. In this way, you can prevent additional moisture from getting to the inside of the handle and weakening it. You don’t want to keep replacing your handles!

Put your tools in a bench vice and put the new handle in the area provided. You will be able to put your new screws in via a manual screwdriver and then finish the job off with a power screwdriver if you have one nearby. Make sure you don’t tighten the screws too much or else this will strip the wood and have you replacing yet another handle.

         

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