Last updated on November 30, 2011
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Know what’s exceedingly stupid on my part? Tossing a log down while collecting stuff for a log pile and having it land on the handle of my rake, snapping it in two. Whoops!
Thankfully a year or two back I found a rake handle in the woods and kept it sitting in the garage for whenever I needed a random pole to meet some need. It just happened to be from the same model of rake as I had (which I’d found curious), so I was able to swap it on to the rake head this evening after getting back home. Now, fixed rake!
This morning’s work was building a new log pile at River Bends. There was a corner that was a bit tight and thus it screwed up the trail’s flow a bit, so I wanted to straighten out one of the jogs in it. The straighter route looked perfect for a mid-trail log pile so we left the original trail route as a bypass and everything is looking good. The new trail segment, log pile, and bypass can be seen here.
The log pile has been skinned and grouted with dirt so it’s a bit hard to see in the photo, but it’s generally the same kind of obstacle as the one pictured here, built a couple months ago along another section of the trail.
When I break long tool handles like that I smear some wood glue in there then wrap it up with tape. When the glue sets they’re better than new.
Paul Frederick: That would probably have worked well. I just figured it was easier to replace it with the like-new handle I already had… Also, by the time I raked a bunch more and made it out of the woods the splintered end had been munged a bit, so fitting the two pieces together wouldn’t have been very easy.