"Where will you drive your own picket stake? Where will you choose to make your stand? Give me a threshold, a specific point at which you will finally stop running, at which you will finally fight back." (Derrick Jensen)
Experimenting and growing on my small acre in SW USA; Fruit & Nut trees w/ annuals, hoping to get Chickens, rabbits, and in-laws onto property soon.
Long term goal - Furniture & Luthier Stay-at-home farm dad.
Dustin Rhodes wrote:aluminum OHV truckbed ramp
This is what my uncle liked to use to load his dirtbikes into his truckbed, light, folds down, and easy to load engine driven equipment(rolling non-drive-powered heavy equipment up that ramp would be quite a chore).
"Where will you drive your own picket stake? Where will you choose to make your stand? Give me a threshold, a specific point at which you will finally stop running, at which you will finally fight back." (Derrick Jensen)
S Tonin wrote:Last year I bought a Korean homi and it's better than any other hand tool I've tried in my conditions. Hori Hori and normal trowels won't work for me because my soil is too dense and rocky. I have a nejiri kama, but it's not substantial enough for my needs. I have a few different hoes that are probably as old as my parents, but I can never seem to find the right body mechanics to use them comfortably (and, well, rocks the size of shoeboxes don't help much either).
This is what mine looks like (bought it on Amazon for like $15 I think):
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Matthew Nistico wrote:
I guess the lesson to be learnt here is that circumstances matter. Different gardening approaches, different soils, different capabilities, and different body types will make different tools work for different people at different times. So keep trying new things, and even retrying old ones. You never know what new/old tool you might discover!
Francis Mallet wrote:
When I first used this trench digger I fell down to my knees and cried. I use it to break new ground, remove small stumps, cutting roots, unearthing rocks, etc.
Before digger = hell
After digger = pleasant workout
Xisca - pics! Dry subtropical Mediterranean - My project
However loud I tell it, this is never a truth, only my experience...
Xisca - pics! Dry subtropical Mediterranean - My project
However loud I tell it, this is never a truth, only my experience...
Xisca - pics! Dry subtropical Mediterranean - My project
However loud I tell it, this is never a truth, only my experience...
Nicole Alderman wrote:LOL on the redneck quad! We totally used ours as one yesterday! (Though, we didn't modify the lawn mower at all. It's still our lawnmower!)
Our neighbors became too busy for their chickens, and so we adopted them and took their coop/run to our place. Of course, none of us had a truck. It was me, my husband, my teenager neighbor and her mom. We pushed the coop onto their trailer and tied it to our John Deer riding lawnmower with a chain. My husband drove and the three of us ladies pulled and pushed to keep the coop on the trailer and relatively balanced down about 1/2 a block of gravel road. We all wished we had a camera, because it was so redneck. But, we did it!
Editing to add a picture of the coop/run, nos that I have a picture!
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"Where will you drive your own picket stake? Where will you choose to make your stand? Give me a threshold, a specific point at which you will finally stop running, at which you will finally fight back." (Derrick Jensen)
Xisca Nicolas wrote:Local artcraft 24 cms Blade and a smaler knife used to remove flowers from the bananas.
I had the idea this one would be perfect to work on a skin without risking a hole!
"Where will you drive your own picket stake? Where will you choose to make your stand? Give me a threshold, a specific point at which you will finally stop running, at which you will finally fight back." (Derrick Jensen)
"Where will you drive your own picket stake? Where will you choose to make your stand? Give me a threshold, a specific point at which you will finally stop running, at which you will finally fight back." (Derrick Jensen)
Nicole Alderman wrote:LOL on the redneck quad! We totally used ours as one yesterday! (Though, we didn't modify the lawn mower at all. It's still our lawnmower!)
Our neighbors became too busy for their chickens, and so we adopted them and took their coop/run to our place. Of course, none of us had a truck. It was me, my husband, my teenager neighbor and her mom. We pushed the coop onto their trailer and tied it to our John Deer riding lawnmower with a chain. My husband drove and the three of us ladies pulled and pushed to keep the coop on the trailer and relatively balanced down about 1/2 a block of gravel road. We all wished we had a camera, because it was so redneck. But, we did it!
S Tonin wrote:Last year I bought a Korean homi and it's better than any other hand tool I've tried in my conditions. Hori Hori and normal trowels won't work for me because my soil is too dense and rocky. I have a nejiri kama, but it's not substantial enough for my needs. I have a few different hoes that are probably as old as my parents, but I can never seem to find the right body mechanics to use them comfortably (and, well, rocks the size of shoeboxes don't help much either).
This is what mine looks like (bought it on Amazon for like $15 I think):
The only thing...more expensive than education is ignorance.~Ben Franklin
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Carla Burke wrote:How big is this, please? And how much does it weigh?
S Tonin wrote:
Carla Burke wrote:How big is this, please? And how much does it weigh?
Total length: ~11.75" long
Handle: ~5.75" long, ~1" diameter
Blade is ~5.5" from where the metal bends to the tip and maybe 3-ish" at its widest point (forgot to measure that bit)
I didn't weigh it, but I don't think it even weighs a pound. The one I have has a very lightweight handle, not a heavy wood like oak. It feels chintzy when you pick it up, but it's not.
The only thing...more expensive than education is ignorance.~Ben Franklin
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"Where will you drive your own picket stake? Where will you choose to make your stand? Give me a threshold, a specific point at which you will finally stop running, at which you will finally fight back." (Derrick Jensen)
Alex Arn wrote:Francis, who is the maker for that trench digger? I am in the market for one have not see one like that.
Amit Enventres wrote:Someone's going to roll their eyes, but I gotta add these with their special uses.
1. A large flat head screwdriver.
2. A hammer. The back end is a small hoe and an excellent weeder.
Good decisions come from experience. Experience comes from making bad decisions. Mark Twain
Alex Arn wrote:
Francis Mallet wrote:
When I first used this trench digger I fell down to my knees and cried. I use it to break new ground, remove small stumps, cutting roots, unearthing rocks, etc.
Before digger = hell
After digger = pleasant workout
Francis, who is the maker for that trench digger? I am in the market for one have not see one like that.
Thanks!
Francis Mallet wrote:
Alex Arn wrote:
Francis Mallet wrote:
When I first used this trench digger I fell down to my knees and cried. I use it to break new ground, remove small stumps, cutting roots, unearthing rocks, etc.
Before digger = hell
After digger = pleasant workout
Francis, who is the maker for that trench digger? I am in the market for one have not see one like that.
Thanks!
Ahh I missed this reply sorry! If anybody is interested it's available from Lee Valley at 66.50$ CAD
Lee Valley Trench Digger
I broke a piece off the handle this summer pulling rocks from the garden. To be honest I should have used a pickaxe for this job the digger took a lot of abuse. When I replace the handle I think I'll make it 6" longer.
'Theoretically this level of creeping Orwellian dynamics should ramp up our awareness, but what happens instead is that each alert becomes less and less effective because we're incredibly stupid.' - Jerry Holkins
Aromatic and medicinal herbs. And making stuff from it. Communicating with animals and plants. Stubbornly living by my own rules. Well, most of the time.
I'm only 60! That's not to old to learn to be a permie, right?
If you were a tree, what sort of tree would you be? This tiny ad is a poop beast.
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