I bought this pickaxe for some small jobs around the yard, and I'm too moronic to even fit the handle, it just slides back down when I turn it upright. I tried hammering it, and it held a bit tighter, but ultimately came undone again. What in the mental moronation am I doing?
heat it up before sliding it on, then wait until it cools off. it wont slip off then
I guess I could, but the few things I could find online about these shitty plastic handles, is you should be able to just bang it on the ground to fit like a normal wooden one. Upon reading reviews, I'm not alone, other people have said it's shit and doesn't fit.
I just saw this.
if it's plastic, glue it with a impact resistant liquid nail.
put screws in the top like a wedge to put pressure sideways (not sure if it damages the structural integrity).
I'm white trash. this is what id do. but id also just use wood.
idk if this works with anything other than wood.
cut a V in the top where the actually pick goes.
cut a wedge
slide the pick down, hammer it down as far as you can at the head, hammer the wedge into the cut with glue, cut the excess wedge.
if it continues to slip down, I just put a small nail under the head so it doesn't slide.
it looks plastic so idk of any of this applies.
Dont post if you have no clue.
You cant split ops handle like that
I HATE YOU MOST OF ALL
Dont post if you dont have firsthand knowledge
looks like you don't need help.
it's no wonder you can't do it on your own without hand holding and it's no wonder it ain't done yet.
Correct, i do not ask the internet dumb questions.
I came in with good intentions trying to help someone tok fricking stupid to just use wood. like this is the find out part of frick around. your hands are gonna get clunked. there is no proper way to fix this without remanufacturing you fricking idiot.
I overlooked the part where you were too fricking stupid to realize this yourself and instead tried to guide you down a more reasonable, or a good enough solution.
tip of pick is rusty. poor storage. mistreated tool.
I gotta take the time to say again
I hate posters like you
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this was all wrong before I even got here. it's plastic.
Use proper material rather than plastic shit? if you ask stupid questions, expect stupid answers?
if your going to Black person rig it, just Black person rig. if your going to fix it, do it right. use wood and throw the plastic away.
Correct, as pictured, what you have is worthless as a tool but has served its purpose as a thing in the modern world made to be sold, not to be used.
Your problem. No solution, other thab obviously hack ones.
remove
clean head
clean haft
reassemble
do but with large screws. you can make pilot holes that are much smaller. basically the idea is to expand the plastic until it holds the head. I would shoot for two long lag bolts evenly spaced in the head and 1/4" holes. lag bolts slightly longer than depth of tool head. note the correct way is with a wedge, this is a slightly bastardized version of that but cross drilling or epoxy or whatever are fricking zoomie vomit from people who don't understand axe handles and have never used much less redone a handle in their lives. inb4 b-but it was epoxy before; yeah and look where that got you.
alternatively take that chinese shit back to the store and buy a decent one off a boomer next time.
Not much use on that pick. Actually it looks brand new
Not much reading comprehension in this post. I hate you all.
Drill a hole through the axe head, straight through the handle and pin it in to place you homosexual. Or epoxy it in place. Not that hard of a challenge to solve.
based diyer instead of OPs diwhyyyyyyyy
That's a fine chick.
thank you.
I'm a real life poultierer.
pic, some of my ducks.
paulterer
I raise birds and often small animals up to the size of goats, I don't like anything I need hoists to process. never claimed to be smart, it's poulterer I think.
more birds. anyone who hates birds is a homosexual who hates easy gains, women, and magical animals that produce more than you put in.
I recently took a baby quail to raise him and I got fascinated by birds.
my wife got me into birds.
I literally didn't give a shit about them. then she suggested chickens as a meat source. it made sense with the eggs and only got better.
now I have a massive reverence and respect for them. I bury rooster who died defending the flock and am not ashamed to say I often cry.
really good broody hens get the same treatment. I lost a girl who raised like 6 generations cause she stepped outside one day and isn't hawk savvy. she just been a baby machine her entire life.
really proud of my roosters sometimes. I had one that fought a fox while I was at work and either chased it off or won. pile of feathers in the woods. he was missing a chunk of his tail, blood on the grass. my rooster has no wounds, missing no chickens and just had his butt feathers missing.
rooster attached. he has warded off 2 fox now and did the cover call countless times for hawks.
based boy, I'll sob like a b***h when he dies.
This is what keeps me from getting chickens even though we have the space and the need for eggs
I'm afraid we would love them too much and be too sad if something happened
Based,
Heres mine
Forgot pic
snakes can get in that hole right there cause a flock of troubles for your birds would suggest filling it up
Buy an actual pickaxe. From a hardware store or box store.
Just bite the bullet
It's supposed to come off so you can store it. Take it the way it is in your picture and drop it on the ground a couple times so the momentum of the head sets itself on the handle. Swing it around. As long as it doesn't fall off like this it's fine.
When your done, tap the base kf the handle on the ground and head falls off so you can store it as two pieces
Op here
This guy is probably correct, as these are sold as two pieces, and the hole where the handle goes in isn't the same shape as the actual handle, so there's minimal friction holding it on.
Because I don't care about the storage of it, and I use it so infrequently, I am go to take the approach of heating the head then sliding it on so it forms a nice seat, then put a screw under it to hold it up.
1 screw.
id say you got chinked, this is one of those products you shoud put a dumpster at the end of the assembly line so its quicker to transport them back to the smelter.
Get a hickory handle and install it. Throw the plastic away. Stop buying substandard tools.
roguehoe/prohoe out of cabool, mo is probably the best.
But jesus, I could do better at the local Tractor Supply or any farm & feed than what you bought on discount.
pick the whole thing up lift it as high as youcan head down
drop it on a stone/brick/concrete/solid surface.
the top of the shaft impacts the ground and the momentum of the heavy head drives it onto the handle flare.
now stand on the head foot either side and pretend its a pogo stick
if you are using a hammer you should be using a 12lb minimum.
and thats not a pick its a mattock
handles too big, and you cant cut it cuz its fiberglass. get a wood handle with wedges. that flare should be inside the head. next time, take it with you so you get the right size.
just put a screw or two into the handle so they head cant fall down
That’s the shitty version to use in the garden, you need the cutter mattock version with the axe blade, not the pick. And get one you can wield with one hand. For pick type jobs you need a long bar, not the chisel tip kind, but the bar that has a point at one end and a heavy nail head on the other end.
Forget this pick axe, give it away to someone else as a gift or give it to goodwill. Because the taper on the shaft doesn’t even match the taper on the tool end so you will never get a good fit without cutting the shaft and putting in a metal wedge, what a frickin hassle!
Now I think about it you just need to wedge the underside of the tool head (the shaft side). Buy a solid rubber door stopper and shave/cut it to fit
Easy to tell from the pick, the taper angle on the handle is too steep. It should work even with the shitty plastic if you make the angles less steep so that there is no gap on the bottom side of the handle
Stick it ad far as you can up a branch, then wait a year. Cut the branch off the tree, shape to comfort aand enjoy.
maybe you can shave it down
i once had a handle like this break and it was not solid fibre reinforced it only had a fibre rod in the middle and plastic all around it.
Reminds me when i wanted to buy a glass fibre reinforced axe, because it sounded cool back then. Clerk couldn't tell me what kind of construction his axes actually had. Ended up buying a handle and a used blade from ebay. Still not sure if the guy was clueless or trying to point me in the right direction.
It's supposed to be like that. The head of the handle is larger than an axe so it won't ever come off when you swing it, but you can take it off before storage. Lot of morons in this thread.
>but you can take it off before storage.
im a stickler for putting tools away but this is a little too far
Best bait I've read all week.
I had to read this far down the thread to find the only correct answer. The pick head isn't supposed to fix to the handle. Correct technique in using the pick means the head is always sliding towards the end of the handle because you are swinging it outwards. I learned this decades ago the first time I went to use my dad's pick, held it up, and the head slid down onto my thumb. He explained and showed me how to swing it round from the starting position. Didn't take long to get a feel for it.
this is a trick we play on all the apprentice landscapers, they learn to correctly swing the pick pretty quickly when their thumb is smarting!
Warm the head up slightly with a torch, throw it on there and smack the head end of the handle on the ground to get it as tight as you can on there. Hopefully the head was hot enough to slightly melt into the plastic handle. Drill and pin that motherfricker if you never want it to come off again...
I got not quite the same thing as OP, but still some chinkshit that cant quite say on right. I'll take the drill route, going through the head, shaft and head again before pinning it in place with something. Anything I should know?
Some of that shit (pick, hammer head, etc) is hard as woodpecker lips. You might be able to drill it with a cobalt bit, but you might have to break out a carbide burr or sharpen a carbide tipped masonry bit and have at it with that...
Just buy a shim kit. You really don't even need that most of the time with those handles.
Contact customer support yourself for a solution that still holds the company liable in case the product malfunctions and/or cause damage to a third party.
shave down the head of the handle till it fits better