TOOLS FOR SELF RELIANCE CYMRU

TOOLS FOR SALE

Tools for gardeners, small-holders, green wood-workers, & other specialist tools

 

TFSR Cymru sells a large number of tools that are not requested by our overseas partners. These are fully refurbished, sharpened and fitted with new handles where necessary. All these tools are individual in character and of better quality than modern tools.

This is our main source of income and we sell them direct from our workshop, or at events such as the Small-holders Show in Builth Wells.

We specialise in tools for green wood-workers, and we have an excellent range of refurbished billhooks by all the well-known makers from the past. We do not normally sell these by mail order as all tools are different and they need to be seen and felt in the hand  before buying.

QUALITY REFURBISHED SECOND HAND TOOLS  

Our prices vary with quality - average price shown

Froes - different sizes from £32.00

Garden Spades - Full-size or Border

£14.00

Garden Forks - Full-size or Ladies

£14.00

Rakes - All sizes

£8.00

Hoes - Dutch, Draw, Heavy, etc

£8.00

Garden Shears - Masses of them

£8.00

Hand Forks & Trowels

£4.00

Secateurs

£8.00

Loppers

£9.00

Scythes

£35.00

Bill Hooks - We always have a good stock of hooks by many of the well-known makers.  All different patterns

£15 - £30 

  Mostly £24

Adzes - A selection of beautiful large adzes, with or without handles

£25 - £35

Hand axes

£9.00

Felling Axes

£24.00

Slashers - various shapes

£24.00

Sickles - loads of these, well known makers

£12.00

Plus - Turning Chisels, Moulding Planes, Stone Carving Hammers & Chisels, etc.

 

.**NEW TOOLS **

Hand forged especially for us

by Blacksmiths from Lake Zone, Tanzania

These are made from recycled materials - sizes & weights vary
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Made by Ikulwa "B" Blacksmiths Group of Geita  . . .

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Bill hooks
made from leaf springs   -  £20.00

Hand Adzes made from leaf springs  -  £20.00

Draw Knives - made from leaf springs - blade 12 inches or so - £25.00

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Made by Itahwa Blacksmiths of Bukoba  . . .

Large hand Forks  - with any length of handle 12" - 48"  -   £14.00

These tools are very popular and at present we are finding it difficult to source enough of them

We are working on this . . . A regular supply could be available from June 2010


All profits from selling these tools will go towards our Project which will provide training to artisan groups within Tanzania.
They will be taught new skills on the forge, better hardening and finishing techniques, and helped with marketing their products.  This is a joint project between Lake Zone Artisans, the Small Industries Development Organisation, and TFSR Cymru.

Preventing Waste.   Recycling tools is one of our answers to the waste economy.  We live in an energy-guzzling, consumer
society, too ready to throw things away.  In Africa, by contrast people waste very little.

But what about the skills and energy of ordinary people?
In an African village, development is held back for the want of a few tools - This is a waste of human potential.

 

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