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Testing Tools for Routing, Cutting and Digging
From: The Washington Post
Date: 20010804
Author:Joel M. Lerner
"Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all," wrote Scottish essayist Thomas Carlyle in 1833. He might have been influenced, in part, by watching the Victorian gardeners at work near his home town of Ecclefechan, an area rich in glorious plants.
Gardening tools date at least to Paleolithic times. The earliest, such as a digging stick made from the rib of a mammoth or a mattock pick split off a tusk, were made of bone.
Today's tools are a bit more advanced. They are made from combinations of plastic, fiberglass and rubber, but the business end of most digging ...
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