Making your own garden tools

I end up with soo many tools that I enevitably find the right one. I’m always looking at new tools and what not where ever we go. Ofcourse I get a “haven’t you already got that tool?” Not only dose not ever tool fit everyones use, not ever job is easy to be done with the same tool (saw for example). I have my standards bacho secatures, complete whit belt case, probably the handiest things I use all day everyday. I prefer them hads down to say felco… use bothe for a day and you’ll se why too. but I have both as well as 1 other pair (can’t remember what though), I have 5 saws? 1 pop up (good for small areas), 1bacho hardwood belt mount, and 1 razor tooth leather belt mount (both are good for going up in the trees, and very agressive, I like the razor better based on the handle, I can’t pull my hand off the way I can many folding saws) and 2 folding saws, one might be fiskar cant remember the other… foldings are good for space, but if you’re doing any amount, your better with one of the others. Oh and I have a pole saw…. wich is also telescopic pole lopers… I have 2 pairs of lopers, one is an anvil type that I inherited (never use) the other is bacho bipass with extra long handles… damn near indistructable! It’s good to have a selection because what works for one project might be really akward on the next. thats where your cutom toold come in handy.

We made a set of tools for working in the planted cactus house when it all had to be cut back basic extentions of our hands and tools to keep us as far away as possile! The other handy bit is cultivators. I’m short so alot of typical cultivators are at bad angles or just not what I need. My dads a mechanic so he has all the scrap mettle and tools required to hook up any tool I can invision. Not sure how handy it would be to have other tools made though?
Sib ;)

the shovel has been around for centuries and as many times as I have tried the “new and improved”....”ergonomic design”...............I resolve myself in knowing that a shovel is exactly that…......a shovel and aside from steel, polyurathane handle, ash handle, that the basic design
has already been perfected

having said that…...............adding gasoline to a shovel is a whole new ball game

-- Central northish Ontario

pictures. I’d love to see these tools !

-- - Debbie, SW Ontario Canada (USDA Hardiness Zone: 5a)

I too would like to see some pics of your creations!

-- Living on the square...Metro Detroit

will make pics soon then.

hhhmmmm….a powershovel…yeah…that’s what I’M talkin’ about.

-- arborial reconfiguration specialist......Zone out....(USA 5)

Waiting for the weather to subside…. worked on the shop… remembered garden tools….took some pics….updated my home page…...can you say “garden tools?”

This is a little digger made from a piece of rebar, angle iron with one end flatted and a piece of tubing for a handle.

I used this to clean out the bottom of my electric service trench for the shop. Folded up from some sheet metal I cut out of the top of a 55 gal. drum.

This is a weeder. A piece of rebar with the end folder around for the handle. A piece of forked flat iron welded on the end and a hoop of sheet metal used for leverage when uprooting weeds.

-- arborial reconfiguration specialist......Zone out....(USA 5)

my Father-in-law welded a nail onto the back side (non business end) of his axe head (or his splitting maul) such a simple modification allows him to pick up a log and right it on the chopping block without bending over. Quite the time, and back saver.

-- southern NH. - smack dab in the middle of 5a and 5b - with lots of shade and full sun, in all the wrong places.

that weeder is brilliant. Love that leverage idea.

-- - Debbie, SW Ontario Canada (USDA Hardiness Zone: 5a)