Burgon & Ball - RHS Stainless Hand Trowel – Professional Ergonomic Garden Tool

Burgon & Ball RHS Stainless Hand Trowel – Professional Ergonomic Garden Tool

The Burgon & Ball RHS Stainless Hand Trowel is the definitive version of gardening's most essential tool. Endorsed by the Royal Horticultural Society, this trowel is engineered for both beauty and extreme durability. It features a classic deep-dish design that maximizes soil capacity, paired with an ergonomically angled neck to reduce wrist fatigue. Built to last a lifetime, it is designed to be the final trowel any gardener will ever need to purchase.

Best For: Every gardener, from beginners to professionals, seeking a high-capacity, rust-resistant tool for general planting, potting, and bedding tasks.

Key Features

• High-Capacity Deep Dish: The head is shaped with a wide, deep profile to ensure you can carry a maximum load of soil or compost with every scoop, making planting more efficient.

• Precision-Forged Tang: The neck (or tang) is precision forged at the perfect ergonomic angle. It uses a specialized steel composition to provide maximum strength at the tool's primary stress point.

• Rust-Resistant Stainless Steel: The mirror-polished finish not only looks professional but resists rust and allows the blade to slide effortlessly through various soil types.

• FSC Certified Handle: Equipped with a smooth, durable handle crafted from FSC-certified hardwood, providing a comfortable and sustainable grip.

• RHS Endorsed with Lifetime Guarantee: Carries the prestigious endorsement of the Royal Horticultural Society and is backed by a lifetime guarantee, ensuring long-term value and performance.

Specifications

• Brand: Burgon & Ball

• Dimensions: 30cm overall length x 7cm maximum head width

• Weight: 196g

• Material: FSC Certified Hardwood & Stainless Steel

• Storage: Includes a sturdy leather hanging cord

Ideal For (Uses)

• General Planting: The perfect all-rounder for digging holes for bedding plants, small shrubs, and bulbs in borders or containers.

• Potting and Re-potting: Its deep-dish shape makes it ideal for scooping potting mix into containers without spilling.

• Detail Weeding: The sturdy construction allows you to easily pry out stubborn weeds in established garden beds.

• Precision Cultivating: Ideal for working in tight spaces where a larger spade or fork would be too intrusive.

Oversized Item Delivery Options

Oversized, heavy, and structural goods ship via specialist freight. Freight is calculated at checkout from estimated packaged volumetric or physical weight. Carrier depot audits may adjust the rate — if the increase exceeds 10%, we will contact you before processing.

Available options include:

✔ Delivery to your closest depot for pickup — default method
✔ Direct delivery — requires an operational forklift on site unless Tailgate Delivery has been specifically requested and quoted (contact us — this cannot be selected at checkout)
✔ Tailgate hydraulic lift delivery — must be specifically requested; contact us for a quote (not available as a checkout option; extra fees apply; required if you do not have a forklift)
✔ Forklift loading at our warehouse (no extra charge if you arrange your own freight)
✔ Direct truck delivery (available in Victoria)

Important Notes:

• Shipping costs vary by location and method
• Any carton or consignment over 25–30kg (or over 200cm) must be palletised
• Without a specifically requested and paid Tailgate Delivery quote, palletised freight requires a forklift on site — otherwise the carrier will redirect to the nearest depot
• Bulky and oversized items cannot be delivered to a PO Box — provide a physical street address
• Failed deliveries, locked gates, unattended sites, or incorrect business/forklift declarations may incur carrier redelivery, demurrage, and restocking fees as set out in our Terms & Conditions

Business Delivery:

• Selecting a business/commercial delivery rate warrants that the address has an operational forklift and certified operator during business hours
• If the carrier cannot unload, the consignment may be redirected to a depot and secondary fees may apply
• Additional fees may apply for failed delivery attempts due to lack of appropriate unloading equipment

See our Terms & Conditions (Article 8) for full freight and delivery rules.

Important Note on Availability & Shipping

Our warehouse is a logistics hub, not a retail showroom. Listing a product online does not mean it is stored at our Thomastown warehouse — many lines ship from supplier hubs (split fulfilment may apply).

How lead times work:

• Product page ETA: The Estimated Time of Arrival (ETA) / lead-time badge shown on the product page at checkout is the agreed delivery timeframe for that order under Australian Consumer Law.
• Metro baselines: Advertised ETAs apply to standard metropolitan zones. Regional and remote addresses may take longer and may attract surcharges.
• Peak seasons: Orders in March–May, August–October, EOFY (June), Black Friday/Cyber Monday (November), and Christmas/New Year (December–January) may automatically add a 2–4 week buffer beyond the product page ETA.
• Supplier-dependent / backordered items: If stock is delayed, we will notify you with a revised ETA. You then have 7 days to accept the new timeframe or cancel for a full refund.
• Adloheat: Custom-made products from Adloheat (Pakenham, VIC) may take 4–12 weeks depending on the order.

Full fulfilment, cancellation, and freight rules are in our Terms & Conditions.

Biosecurity & Interstate Shipping Restrictions

Due to strict state biosecurity regulations, we are unable to ship some products to certain states and territories:

• Potting Mixes cannot be shipped to Western Australia (WA), the Northern Territory (NT), or Tasmania (TAS).
• Seeds cannot be shipped to Western Australia (WA).

Orders placed for these items to restricted states will be cancelled and refunded. It is the customer's responsibility to ensure that the items being ordered can lawfully be delivered to their state or territory.