A craftsman at work is a beautiful thing to watch. It’s so nice knowing people like this are still around.

Larry is so full of wisdom that current generations need to hear. The move away from agriculture has left many gardeners, farmers, and homesteaders without the wisdom from the grandfathers. Thank you for helping to share Larry's wisdom!

Love the smell of the oils. Respect from Africa 🇿🇦

Thank you. Really appreciate learning more how to maintain the classic tools I’ve inherited.

Listening to Larry, was remembrance of 60 + years ago... when my grandfather sat us all on a bench, 5 boys, showing us the values of his wisdom and well maintained tools in a manner of love. Tools are expensive, you only need to buy them once, if made correctly! Do your maintenance or pay the man twice after learning your lesson... I still have many of those tools in my barn, nearly 100 yo. Blessed and having a great day; enjoying things that our hands are able to do!

My husband has some tools that belonged to his great grandpa! We are so thankful to have those and they wouldn’t be here if they weren’t taken care of. -Nette 🌺 Dating back to 1904!

My Bertha arrived two days ago from Larry with such a kind note from Larry as well. On the card attached to it was a note saying to do all your tools while at it. Yesterday I picked 10 tools and it had been 15 years I swear since they were last done! Great reminders Josh & Larry and thank you both. 👍🌱

@annettecinquemanifalbo17

3 жыл бұрын

Very cool! I need to check out his site.. For pricing etc.. I'm sure Bertha isn't cheap and probably is worth every penny you've spent! Looks like a very well made tool!

@cpnotill9264

3 жыл бұрын

@@annettecinquemanifalbo17 Oh my it is so well made Annette. One of the things I say is buy once and take good care of that tool or whatever that purchase might be. I used it for the first time today and love using it! I appreciate the square steel stock used to stand on and it broke through the soil so nicely. I love quality hand garden tools while they connect me to the earth without the need for fossil fuels. May your gardens be abundant Annette. 👍🌱 Catherine

I got my Bertha yesterday and can't wait to use it! Have to treat my handles first though. The craftsmanship is awesome. May have to frame the kind note that Larry wrote on the cardboard and hang it above the tool rack. Hope you're able to work Larry into more future videos as his easy manner of speaking and guidance make you want to learn more and more. Thanks again!

@cpnotill9264

3 жыл бұрын

Hey Roger I saved my cardboard note and hung it in my shop as it meant something special to me! I really enjoyed using my new Bertha today! 🌱

Thanks for the tips Larry. Be careful when using linseed oil. I learned the hard way that you need to be very careful with rags that have the linseed oil left on them and are not disposed of properly. Lesson learned and I am grateful that it wasn’t as bad as it could have been. You can’t go wrong with maintaining your tools!

I'm also a blacksmith. I add a bit of beeswax to that mix for protecting the wood.

I agree with some of the other comments about more info on tool sharpening. For those of us without the generational farming background (or just general background on working more with our hands), it can be hard to know where to even start with things like tool maintenance. Consumer culture also kind of reaffirms this and makes it difficult too. I'm pretty sure many out there like the idea of us just breaking a tool and buying another one.

Good advise. Larry really cares about his tools. Thanks for introducing us to him.

When I was in high school I helped a 70 year old man take care of his homestead and he had an outbuilding with probably 100 hand tools that were in immaculate condition probably 50 years old. he did this every winter before putting the tools away. Definitely a good idea. I’m also not very good about it lol

What a cool guy! Great video Josh.

I bought an old cruiser axe and the original handle from the 70s was really scuzzy, I sanded it down and it’s a beautiful curly Ashe

LARRY !!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks so much! I was pretty mad at myself just yesterday when I realized I'd left some garden tools out by my back porch in the thunderstorms that rolled through East Texas the night before! I grabbed them and brought them up on the porch under the roof! They're dry now but I'm going to buy some linseed/turpentine mixture today! I have a whole barn full of tools, I swear it never ends!! Just when I think I'm getting on top of things... There's always something else to do 'round here on the farm! 😁 I'm also really interested in buying the broad fork, Ms. Bertha!

I'd love to get my husband one of these for our Homestead and Nonprofit therapy Garden 🥰🥰🥰

Thanks Larry. Great inspiration..

I don't know why this was recommended to me but it was very informative, even if I dont have tools to maintain

Great! Could you demonstrate how to file shovels, etc?

Whenever we finished using a tool-shovel, spade, hoe etc-all the dirt was brushed off and a light coating of oil was applied. His tools lasted forever. Haven’t ever seen this technique with wood but this is some really food advice. Wood dries out and breaks.

@rodneymccrea7214

3 жыл бұрын

Lordy…I meant “my dad’s tools” and “good” advice.

Great info. Thank you

I just assembled my Bertha this week and I very much appreciate this video. I wouldn't have thought to soak her handles (or use linseed oil and turpentine). Now I have to figure out how to maintain my tools that are mysteriously held together by glue and coming loose. I'm curious what Larry would think of using beeswax for tool handles? Thanks for the video Josh. Cheers!

Larry made me use the terpentine/linseed oil mix and oh boy! Work pleasure x100, and no more painting! The handle soaking is a bit iffy, could you soak them standing up right as well (first time soak)

I need to build a broad fork (a good one cost $150-$200) they’re pretty expensive.

If you use a rag with linseed oil, don’t wad it up and throw it in your trash, it can catch on fire all by itself

A toolls are expensive. You can really increase your net. By not having to keep replacjng them.

How would you recommend reinforcing the collar of a digging fork? (I have a buckle where the collar stretched below where the internal handle ends that allowed the tines to have a negative 30° angle from the initial/original angle.)

They say that the oldest proffession is a prostitute where I come from. Just my 2 cents. Love the video, good job.