The old tools were made to stand up to hard use. If something broke, it was usually fixed by the owner and continued its useful life. I'll bet you will never break the handles off your loppers
Any day you wake up on the sunny side of the grass is a good day.
"The moving hand writes and having writ moves on. Neither all thy piety nor all thy wit can lure it back to cancel half a line nor all thy tears wash out a word of it." The Rubiyat by Omar Khayyam