Is Yo Ho still making trowels? Can you tell me any Yo Ho history?




Yo Ho on right. Second on right is Leroy Renno's all steel trowel. Two on left maker unknown.


What's in your bag?

I got a mid length handled shovel with a 5" blade and cut it down to 3" .

Get something with what I call the handle like the Yo Ho. Life easier.

JC Conners tools are the best made today...in my humble opinion.

I use JC Conner's Badger with the hoe on one end and a trowel on the other. It might bend a bit if a freight train ran over it but I doubt it.

I also use one of those Groundhog tools.

I agree JC's tools and equipment are well designed and constructed for hard use. Jim has a lifetime in what he puts out for the trapper. I don't think you could wear out his tools in 2 lifetimes.

There's a good Plug for you Jim, my old friend.

His videos pretty much taught me how to trap. I never had a trapping mentor. I'd love to ride his trapline with him.

Hern I had a yo ho for about a year but I needed something I could really torque and twist with on that D handle in our hard frozen winter coyote ground here. The flimsy thin metal on the D handle just was OK for early season but not late season for me. It didn’t last me too long and I gave it away.
Best trowel I had my uncle made me from aluminum had a small 3” trowel with a t handle all welded up and it was light and super strong. Had a larger one he made me for water line it had about a 6” cupped and rounded blade and also aluminum stock it made great pocket sets for coon.
I have one now that is modified dirthole trowel with a solid steel handle welded to it and a welded stock D handle, stout built and serves me well in any season.
Uncle made my hammer too. 3 lb sledge with flat bar welded on top back part and a hard weld tip on the stock bar that is ground sharp for digging and the sledge for hammering stakes and drivers. Has a nice handle too.
Got to love having a machinist family member with some scrap laying around.
Jim