unwanted trowels

[Richard Wright]

Yesterday I visited the markets at Berry. There was a fellow there
who has found a use for unwanted trowels.

Richard

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Richard Wright
3 Baringa Road
Mortdale
NSW 2223
Australia

Phone: 0417292582
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[Tony Lowe]

They look like Marshalltowns to me, so I hope you didn't buy too many!

Tony Lowe
Casey & Lowe Pty Ltd
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[Denis Gojak]

Tony 

Some people think its cruel to capture them in the wild, cut off their feet and give them wooden muzzles which is what humans have done since the olden days, but I've seen the battery trowel farms that Bunnings uses to breed its crappy stock and that's so much worse.  All cooped up, and never seeing the sun, it enough to make you go off digging for life and turn into a remote senser.

Denis

Moral high ground

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[Tony Lowe]

 

Thanks Denis but we should remember that they are not native to our shores and have been a real problem with their impact on the local fauna.  I am not of course condoning ill-treatment to any trowel species but the traditional WHS trowel, whether in its original or modified state, is the British model that we all know is best and that was the source of the inspiration that helped see us through the brief Turnbull Republican Phase. 

 

Bring Back the Knights and Dames!  And the wooden handle!

[Richard Wright]

Denis

I remember your concept of Diprotodon and Charlesprotodon.

Richard

At 19:39 2/07/2018, you wrote:

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Some people think its cruel to capture them in the wild, cut off their feet and give them wooden muzzles which is what humans have done since the olden days, but I've seen the battery trowel farms that Bunnings uses to breed its crappy stock and that's so much worse.  All cooped up, and never seeing the sun, it enough to make you go off digging for life and turn into a remote senser.

Denis
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[john...@ozemail.com.au]

 

Hello,

How are they distinguished?

Ear characteristics?

Wellington Caves had first megafaunal recognition.

It also has an outstanding tourist mine -- from when they mined bone breccia for fertiliser.

I have nominated Jenolan Caves as National Heritage.

I'm next wanting to do Wellington Caves and am looking for anyone to help.

Does anybody know anyone interested in nominating heritage please?

Cheers, John

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[tessa corkill]

And do you remember Meg Alania?

Tessa C

A not quite extinct proud owner of a WHS

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[Gary Vines]

Trowel Wars - Marshalltown 0

[john.p...@bigpond.com]

Nothing that a bit of welding won’t fix.

 

Or you could re-purpose the handle bit as a scraper, and the rest as a really lethal spear point. You could even have fun with it by salting some site somewhere and suddenly discovering a steel spear point. Mine’s older than yours in true archaeological fashion. Perhaps even drop it in the Melbourne CBD excavations to give the archaeos something to get really priapic about other than pre-European tree stumps.

 

Even better would be to find it near the Randwick Stabling Yard close to the treasure trove of 30,000 artefacts. I’d almost guarantee that there would be public orgasms over such a wonderful object being found there. I can just see the claims that would follow: incontrovertible proof that steel technology was developed in Australia, earliest known use of alloy steel anywhere in the world, trade routes starting in Sydney and diffusing steel around the world, .... Think of the consultants that would be employed, and who would prove it was genuine. There’d be an entire Visitor Centre based on this single treasure, vast sums spent developing educational materials so that droves of visiting school kids would be mesmerised by the cultural importance of this single fragment. It would be nominated for the World Heritage list. Who needs 30,000 bits of rock? Although I guess you could embed them in a feature wall of the Visitor Centre, or use them to make the concrete for the foundations of the toilets.

 

Of course, you could swallow your pride, and abandon the fancy brands that any archaeologist worth her salt would buy at great expense. Go to Bunnings and buy a couple of el-cheapo trowels. (But don’t tell anyone what you have done if you want to keep any street cred.) Keep your receipt, and every time you break one of their “non name” trowels made in the PRC, take it back for a free replacement. But don’t forget to buy a couple so you have a spare so that your excavating is not interrupted.

Cheers, John

John Pickard
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[Gary Vines]

Marshalltown = 0 WHS = 1 

[Richard Wright]

The story goes that some years ago WHS stopped making short trowels.

WHS had not appreciated their archaeological use, and were taken
aback by the outcry.

So they consulted archaeologists, who among other things complained
of rotting of the wooden handle (we are dealing with Britain).

So WHS came up with the version in the attachment.

[David Marcus]

I can add a bit more to this from the whispered gossip I heard in various site huts back when I was working on the uk digging circuit. 

Around 2005, WHS apparently asked brickies what improvements they could make to their pointing trowel.  As a result the trowels were given a slightly thinner blade and the shaft was lengthened to give a bit more clearance to knuckles. But the thinner blades couldn’t handle a good waterlogged clay site and kept snapping so rather than spend valuable drinking money on replacing a trowel each week, diggers started turning to Marshelltown.

Evidently, WHS received so many complaints from archaeologists that they started making the trowels we use today - thicker blade combined with the raised knuckle clearance. They also upped the price by around £10 for the privilege!

I remember one site director collected all his broken trowels and sent them back to WHS with an angry letter. They sent him one of these beauties as an apology - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Time-Limited-Presentation-Archaeology-Trowel/dp/B006MGCHR0...a limited edition Time Team trowel, custom made with a beech handle and brass logo screwed into the handle.

Dave Marcus 

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