Reviewed - Handheld tools
18 May 2012 | by Sally Drury
What will the Thenford estate garden team make of the latest hand-tool offerings? Sally Drury finds out.
Professor Claus Mattheck, head of biomechanics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.
What will the Thenford estate garden team make of the latest hand-tool offerings? Sally Drury finds out.
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