Have a great invention to help with gardening? Are you the self-reliant type that prefers Building It Yourself vs. buying it? Share and discuss your ideas and projects with other members.
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Join Date: Oct 2011
Location: Homestead,Everglades City Fl.
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Apr 2015
Location: Charlotte, NC
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![]() My gotta haves for gardening are: A big, heavy, knife (really a piece of old lawnmower blade ground to shape with duct tape for a handle) with a dull hefty blade for hacking, splitting, digging, weeding, self defense ![]() Army surplus Entrenching tool. It's a shovel, hoe, mattock, stake pounder, prybar, etc all in a small package A Smart phone w/earbuds. It's a walkie talkie, music player, camera, light, calculator, web searcher, etc while working outside An old blue tarp loaded up and pulled by one of the short ends used for dragging small pruned limbs, leaves, debris, etc to the curb or wherever you dispose of stuff not meant for the household garbage or too bulky for a wheel barrow Big brimmed straw hat with an evaporative cooling bandana #50 sun block Crocs |
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Feb 2012
Location: Newfoundland, Canada
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![]() An axe for cutting roots has to be an old one - none of that new cr#p - the good old blades can ding a rock without getting chipped. It's a good thing I don't go to yard sales ![]() ![]() |
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: May 2011
Location: Laurinburg, North Carolina, zone 7
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Sounds very close to my list. I need to put my own tools on my wish list so that I don't have to go in the man cave to borrow.
I'm looking for a pink,cordless circular saw,drill,etc,lol! |
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BANNED FOR LIFE
Join Date: May 2014
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Mar 2015
Location: NE Louisiana, Zone 8A
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Sorry if I missed these in other posts. Not exactly house tools, but these are used around our homestead regularly. Saw horses, miter saw, sharpshooter shovel, logging chains, come-along, welding machine, caulking gun, grease gun, bolt cutters, crowbar, nail puller, splitting maul and wedges, electrical dykes, electrical multimeter, handheld grinder, rope, tractor(does this count?), ratchet straps, and my must have: a good headlamp!
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Den of Drunken Fools
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Also a good helper spouse.
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: Illinois, zone 6
Posts: 8,407
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Sometimes cheap tools do the job, and other times there is a huge difference between cheap and quality. I was just using a pair of Craftsman needle nose pliers that I have had for ten years. They were I think $12; the cheap ones are 99 cents, but they only last me a few minutes before I bend up the tips and make them unusable. Craftsman makes some nice hand tools. I'm not a fan of their cordless tools or power equipment, but their wrenches and pliers are very high quality.
I think Estwing makes the best hammers. I won't have any other brand. |
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Join Date: Feb 2012
Location: Newfoundland, Canada
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Dunno how many of you are into the Dremel high speed flexible shaft multitool... great machine, the trouble is, you really want ten or twenty of them, unless you want to spend a lifetime switching from one bit to another (if you're carving something, for example).
Anyway they are way too expensive to have ten. But I picked up a competitor model - Jobmate - for $15!!! Since it isn't so versatile, no problem, I set it up in a clamp for some several polishing tools, and it works just fine for that. Scratch one Dremel I don't need... ![]() |
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: Illinois, zone 6
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I like my oscillating saw. It vibrates to cut, which makes it very hard to cut one's self with it. Dremel makes one. Mine is an off brand.
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Mar 2015
Location: Zone 5A, Poconos
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A flashlight, plastic gloves and a 5-gallon bucket or two.
... this is to search your property for toads at midnight to get them off premises. |
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Pewaukee, Wisconsin
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And for the Ladies out there... Well all you need is a good 'Stud Finder'. Once you get it to work all of these other things will follow along.
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Join Date: May 2013
Location: New Mexico
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Join Date: Jul 2013
Location: MA
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Good thread, much has been said and covered, so now the few items left get more specialized.
Re saws: a thin Japanese handsaw that cuts on the pull stroke comes in handy in many situations.I have one with two super sharp working edges, the coarse side could zip in a 2x4 in seconds. The fine side has no set on the teeth, so you could cut close to a finished surface flush with no/low risk of damage. For sharpening: a thick/flat slab of glass with different grits of black SiCa paper to hone fine edges on knives and chisels. A small right-angle hand grinder (4 or 4.5") works great to sharpen or recondition edge on heavy tools such as shovel, mattoc, axe... Sieves and strainers (re purposed from kitchen) to drain cleaning fluids/mixes used for de-rusting or de-greasing. Best not to put them back in normal use and circulation. Hex allen wrenches, both metric and US. |
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Oct 2011
Location: Homestead,Everglades City Fl.
Posts: 2,497
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I was lucky enough to get a good shed when I bought this land(8x16)to put all my tools in.When configuring new layout and benches(work surfaces) used a old school method of taking small and large mason jars,screwing the lids in between the rafters(upper storage bay)sorting all my screws,misc small fittings etc for easy sight/storage.In lieu of the old pegboard, magnetic strips (2-4ft. bars)to arrange most common hand tools for easy access.
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