What Tradies Want — August-September 2017

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GOOD THOUGHT
The concept of refining tools goes even
further.
Not only are hammers and axes treated
to high-tech research, development and
precision manufacture, but toolkit essentials
like pliers and boltcutters have been
through the lab as well, and now Powergear
technology makes a humble pair of pliers
into a gear-and-cam driven machinery item
ready to multiply force exponentially. They’ll
still survive being chucked into an overflowing
toolbox or left in the rain at a jobsite, and they
don’t look terribly different from the tools that
have been around for generations, but there’s
a wealth of clever thinking and development
even in Fiskars’ simplest-looking tools.
A sledgehammer is a good example.
A good ol’ wooden-handled sledgie
handed down from the great grandfather
might still be an option, and it might still
survive a job. Fiskars took a look at what
a sledgehammer was supposed to do and
how it was used, and came up specifics
like the induction-hardened driving face,

overstrike protection and a biodynamically

designed handle. Stack that up alongside a

club or claw hammer and while the essential

construction is the same high standard,

individual features like a hardened, wedge-

shaped demolition head on the club hammer

and a nail starter on the claw and framing

hammers show the attention to design and

Fiskars’ understanding of a pro tradie’s

different needs.

SUCCESS WITH GOOD

REASON

When you next hit the job site have a think

about the tools you have and the standard

of work you like to do. If you like to get a

job done on time and up to spec, and be

confident your work is top class, you’re

thinking the same way as Fiskars does when

it manufactures tools.

Seeing those orange handles in the tool

box is a sign you’re working with equipment

you can rely on.

Get all the up-to-date info at the Fiskars

Australia website: http://www.fiskars.com.au.

Fiskars scissors

throughout the years.

Forging.

16oz and 20oz claw hammers.

Fiskars, 1946.

1976

1649: Peter Thorwöste was given

a charter to establish a blast furnace

and forging operation in the small village

of Fiskars, 90km north of Helsinki

1783: The ironworks was taken over

by the Björkman family and production

focused on processing copper ore from

a nearby copper mine

1832: Fiskars founded Finland’s

first cutlery mill to increase its

production range to include forks

and what would soon become the

world’s favorite scissors

1837: Fiskars machine workshop

was founded in the village and began

to manufacture some of the world’s

first steam engines

1915: Fiskars was listed on the

Helsinki Stock Exchange. Share

certificate number 377, subscribed

for by Albert von Julin.

1967: Fiskars manufactures the

world’s first plastic-handled scissors

2015: Fiskars acquired the WWRD

group of companies (WWRD) and its

portfolio of luxury home and lifestyle

brands which include Waterford,

Wedgwood, Royal Doulton, Royal

Albert and Rogaška.

HERITAGE

LISTING