The Grip, Weight and Material of Small Garden Tools
Your small garden tools will serve you better when you choose them with care. By choosing tools made from suitable materials, you can have garden tools that will improve your grip and will allow you to garden even with arthritis, carpal tunnel syndrome or weak hands. It is also important that you take the weight of the tool into consideration, when you are choosing your small garden tools.
Grip Is Important
The strength of your grip on a garden tool will improve your efforts at gardening and it can make gardening more enjoyable. You will need a garden tool with a handle with which it is easy to work. You can find small garden tools that have ergonomic handles. There are contoured handles to improve your grip. If you have arthritis, you may find it easier to get a good grip on tools with a larger diameter.
People, with carpal tunnel or some other wrist problem, will find it easier to work with garden tools with arm supports and pistol grip handles. You can also use tools that have special wrist straps and finger-guards, if your hands are weak. For anyone, who wants to enjoy gardening but has a problem with bending over, there are long handled small garden tools.
The Weight and Material Used For Making the Tools
Unlike the steel material traditionally used for garden tools, you can now choose from small garden tools that are made from stainless steel, polished aluminum, plastic, composite and pressed steel tools. You will find it easier to work the soil with metal tools rather than the plastic or other materials although the plastic or composite tools will be lighter in weight, which makes the tools easier to use.
If you choose plastic tools, make sure the tool is made from a high strength lightweight plastic. When you are choosing small garden tools, choose the sturdier models, especially when choosing a fork or long handled trowel because pressed steel, plastic or composite tools may bend or break if too much pressure is applied to the tool.
The more care that you take when you are choosing your small garden tools will ensure that your garden tools will last for many seasons. By taking in the different considerations about grip, weight and material, you will make a better choice of garden tools. Your small garden tools can make or break your experience with gardening, so choose your tools with the same care that you put into make choices about your garden.
