Gardening is a universal pastime, bringing people together in one common interest, yet we are still dvided by the terms to descibe the garden tools that we use. I want to use my "shovel"......are you sure you don't mean that you want to use your "garden spade?"   It is no different to one person calling two peices of bread with a filling a "Sandwich", while the next person would refer to it as a "Cob". When we take calls from interested customers on our Bulldog Tools help line it is interesting to hear secateurs refered to as pruners or shears, sometimes garden shears or even clippers. None of these descriptions are incorrect, yet they describe what is essentially the same tool.

I can understand the obvious difference in language between the UK and USA. What would be referred to in Los Angeles as a set of yard tools would be refered to in Hampshire as gardening tools. I guess that the difference also stretches to the different style of tools that we use either side of the Atlantic. Our American cousins tend to use long handle tools, while we use more conventional tools with shorter handles, there are however very distinct regional preferences within the United Kingdom. In the south of England we like to use the D handle shovel, while further north we like to use the "T" style wooden handle. What made you want to talk about this subject I can hear you say! Well we were asked by one of our site visitors "Why is the Bulldog product range so huge?". The answer is simple. As The Last Forge of it's Kind Britain still making heavy duty tools we have got to try and cater for the needs of all our customers and supporters. When you have got time please take a browse through our web site in more detail. You will be amazed at the different type of tools that Bulldog Tools make!

Posted by Clarington on 14th March 2009

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