Abstract: A subsurface tool comprising an elongated steel shaft having a soil penetrating lower end element and having a threaded upper end, a transverse elongated handle having a pair of ends for manual gripping thereof, and a central zone, an elongated isolator between the shaft upper end and the handle, the isolator being an electrically insulating, reinforced polymeric composite having an upper end ring portion encircling and molded to the handle at its central zone, and having a lower end socket, the shaft upper end being attached to the isolator lower end socket.