Wire wheeling garden tools

[mslim]

My wife is wrapping up her garden for the winter. She gives me her shears and pruners to clean and preserve until spring.

I usually lightly dress the edges with a stone and and then take them over to the grinder and knock the surface rust off with a extra fine wire wheel.

I then check the pivot bolts for play and tighten if necessary, wipe em down with Boeshield and put away.

I was wondering if I ought to reverse the order a little? Maybe the wire wheel is putting a burr on the dressed edge?

 

[d.mcfarland]

Try the reverse method and see if the results are better. Only one way to find out.

 

[rust in the eye]

My freshly sharpened garden tools, axes, etc. get a spray of paint on the cutting edge for protection during winter in my shed.
Works for me.

 

[PCustoms]

Clean, sharpen, oil.

 

[rancherbill]

Clean, wire wheel and/or flap disk, rust converter, sharpen, paint. It does not really take a lot of time if you are doing several. We use 5 shovels/spades, and 3 hoes

They are they better than new all next year.

 

[Beerhippie]

BLO.



I treated this shovel with Boiled Linseed Oil a year-and-a-half ago. It's been in that roof rack on my car through two summers and wet springs and one wet fall and snowy winter--and seen a fair amount of use as a shovel. Note only one small spot or rust on the top "ear" of the blade.

Oh, yeah, I'd sharpen after removing rust. But then, I don't have to remove rust on most of my personal landscape tools. Keeping 'em oiled and clean is easier than removing rust (and leaving pits) and cleaning them every season.

 

[bonneyman]

Clean, sharpen, light coating of grease.

Since doing it on my shears and loppers they stay nice looking for years.