All homestead have implements of destruction with broken handles. More often than not it is easier and as cheap to simply buy a new one which leaves us all with a pile of perfectly usable if they had a handle implements. We are no different and found ourselves with this nice assortment which we burned the old handles out of.
Many years ago we ran across a web page that showed an ol feller growing his own tool handles and we thought how cool, one day we are gonna do that. Finally this year, the trees we had coppiced, for another experiment, were ready to fit the implements on and attempt to grow our own handles. Who knows if it will actually work, how long it will take, or if the handles will be straight enough to use. In the mean time, they implement trees will look neat and be a conversation piece.