I'm not talking storylines. Having read the thread about good and bad buys regarding plot tools and equipment i wonder what your favourite homemade gadget is. Mine is a childs toy rake tied on a broom handle that i use to rake the hoed weeds away from my onion rows. It works a treat.
I have a habit of breaking tools, usually the tines off forks, this means I have a two pronged fork which is ace for digging out Dandelions and the like or working in tight spots,
A broken wooden D handled tool has been converted into a great Dibber for putting in Leeks or making holes for transplants, you can lean on the handle and get all your weight behind it, and still get it back out!
;D
My home made measuring stick, a piece of flat wood marked in 3" portions to 36". For something so simple, it's never far from reach!
pegs made from old wire coat hangers, a walking stick for a dibber, a tree stump for a table or a seat and scaffy boards - instant work bench, greenhouse shelving, paths, seats.
You really can't beat a good scaffolding plank, but where can I get one mine has just about had it after 13 years sterling service!
:'(
building sites. if you ask nicely and give them choccie biccies for their tea break. the odd plank here and there mounts up. i've used them for a raised bed and a coldframe and have another wee pile growing. i can get half planks in the car but he long ones have to get humphed in a barrow. wish i had a big van.
Same as SS a measuring stick, naturally being a fellow mine has to be bigger @ 72" ;D ;D
Quote from: supersprout on May 20, 2006, 23:05:54
My home made measuring stick, a piece of flat wood marked in 3" portions to 36". For something so simple, it's never far from reach!
SNAP! Mine is a plank, marked like yours, and abt.6" wide, so useful for making the drills for the seeds to go in. Makes sowing and spacing a doddle (also, wiith seeds of plants I've not tried before, use the guage to identify the goodies from the baddies - anything between the spacing's gotta be a weed :D))
But, Sprottie......was expecting to see your pink dibber again here? Not going to 'launch' it til it's been officially tested?
Watever do you plant at 72" spacing mike? ???
:o ;D ;D ;D
Good point lish, still playing around with the adjustable treadle - not quite ready for launch yet 8)
I was gonna ask mike the same question ;)
The parsnip dibber you only use once a year, but the measuring stick is in use all the time. 72"? why step over apple trees, what else? ;D ;D
Currently, my favourite toy is my new stirrup hoe, what I made myself :D
With my weed plantation, it is getting put to very good use.
My home made garden line or onion hoe
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