re: favorite garden tools?

Just normal hand garden tools, I use a contractor wheelbarrow, Gorilla cart, regular shovel, square shovel, trench shovel, leaf rake, bow rake, pick mattox, axe, digging bar, hand trowel, hoe, dirt tamper, tarps, and come-along winch.

My favorite out of the ordinary hand garden tool is the come-along winch. I use it to pull up stumps, bushes, and small trees, in conjunction with a Milwaukee Reciprocating Hackzall Saw and/or regular axe. The Hackzall Saw is an awesome one handed demolition and garden tool. I cut down small trees, branches and roots using a pruning saw blade with it.

For power garden tools, I guess my favorite is the Echo PAS 225 . I use the speed feed string trimmer, brush cutter, and pole saw attachments frequently on our heavily wooded acres. I also have the leaf blower and articulating hedge trimmer attachments. Honorable mention are my Kobalt and Ryobi battery operated fans. I take them with me on garden and other outside projects where I am not moving around too much to stay much cooler in hot humid weather. I use my Kobalt leaf blower almost daily. I have quite a few other battery and gas operated garden tools (chainsaws, grass trimmers, sprayers, etc )

Also in my favorite garden tools are a lot of really old antique hand garden tools, sprinklers, etc. that I collect. I have hundreds of Antique Tools. Some of them are really interesting designs. Below are some antique hedge shears that I bet only very few people have ever seen a design like this