Hammer Handles

We use a sledge hammer every time we dock to drive some large stabilizing rods in the ground. They are used to support the gangplank. Last week we broke the handle out of our sledge hammer.
What would you do? Go to Wal-Mart and get a new one huh. Maybe even a hardware store. Well we do not have things like that so our engineer, Sokah, went out and cut a limb off of a tree and proceeded to carve out a handle. I was impressed. Worked like a charm and he had it all carved and smoothed in a short time. People here a pretty inventive and make and repair things all of the time when we would just throw it away and buy a new one. Maybe they don’t have garage sales either to get rid of the stuff they don’t use any more! rick