manliness?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\nWell, there are two things to say to this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
First, welcome to the 21st century where women use chainsaws as well, so the term manly<\/em> doesn’t really apply anymore!<\/p>\n\n\n\nSecondly, no matter what your gender, it’s a good idea to look after your tools. It’s not just about making them pretty<\/em>. When you care for your tools, they last longer – that’s just a fact. All it takes is a bit of time and effort, and your tools will keep working for many years.<\/p>\n\n\n\nIt’s about being economical and sensible with money. And, these days, we all want to save as much money as we can!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I’m a great believer in using power tools to take the back-breaking work out of gardening. That’s why I bought myself a chainsaw, to make my life easier. The trouble is that it often gets caked in sap, resin, sawdust and debris that causes the plastic to become discoloured. And after a while, the bright … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1168,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/equipmentgirl.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/equipmentgirl.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/equipmentgirl.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/equipmentgirl.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/equipmentgirl.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1163"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/equipmentgirl.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1167,"href":"https:\/\/equipmentgirl.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163\/revisions\/1167"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/equipmentgirl.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/equipmentgirl.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/equipmentgirl.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/equipmentgirl.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}