That time my trowel broke at a dig site in southern Arizona

I was out near Tucson last spring on a Hohokam site, about 4 hours into a grid excavation. My Marshalltown trowel snapped right at the handle tang, which I've never had happen before in 8 years. I panicked for a minute because the dirt was super compacted caliche and I couldn't just scrape with my fingers. Ended up borrowing a worn-down drywall knife from a volunteer who used it for scraping mortar in his garage, weirdly perfect. Managed to finish the unit but I'm still mad about losing that trowel, it had a perfect edge. Has anyone else had a tool fail in the middle of a dig and had to improvise with something random?

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evangarcia8d ago

Ha, so much for "lifetime guarantee" huh?

aaronf408d ago

Mine just failed too, feelsbadman.