Garden Tools - Burpee Stainless Steel Long Handle Trowel

I bought this trowel to replace one that cracked at the tang after about 15 years of use. I searched for a while to find a nice one like this with the long handle that wasn't junk. The Burpee name gave me a lot of high hopes. I bought two just in case, as it took so long to find what I wanted. Unfortunately I am disappointed. I went to use it for the first time to enlarge a hole to plant a nice blue rug Juniper in a place where I had just pulled out a small arborvitae that just looked bad. The dirt was soft topsoil that was about 75% freshly disturbed. It's not like I was digging a hole in dry Ohio clay as this was in a well established bed with mulch. The first thing I noticed was that the shovel bent easily. Upon closer inspection - and after less than two minutes of use - I saw that the weld to the ferrule was cracked all the way around and the ferrule was wobbling on the handle. Further, the pin that holds the ferrule to the handle was starting to come out. Not a very good start. So it looks like I'm going to get the old one fixed and leave the Burpees on the shelf.....