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i have used that type as well for planting trees. THey work good for healing in seedlings. The one i made is hollow so i can drop seeds down thru the tube after i make a hole with the pointed end. Will try to figure out how to post a picture of it.Daron Williams wrote:In my restoration work we use metal planting sticks for our live stakes and sometimes bareroots if we are doing a lot all at once. I may use one in the future at my place but I have not so far.
Maureen Atsali
Wrong Way Farm - Kenya
Maureen Atsali wrote:How do you keep the tube from clogging up with soil?
Maureen Atsali
Wrong Way Farm - Kenya
mark carter wrote:Takes longer to explain than do.
Maureen Atsali
Wrong Way Farm - Kenya
Maureen Atsali wrote:I like it! Now to see if I can get the hardware to sell me just a short length of steel pipe... And if I can find someone with a hack saw to put the angle on. (I don't think PVC would hold up here.)
don't have bamboo thats usable in michigan, i used a bandsaw to cut the angle on my planting sticks.Steven Kovacs wrote:
Maureen Atsali wrote:I like it! Now to see if I can get the hardware to sell me just a short length of steel pipe... And if I can find someone with a hack saw to put the angle on. (I don't think PVC would hold up here.)
Do you have any bamboo where you are? I wonder if that might work.
Maureen Atsali
Wrong Way Farm - Kenya
Maureen Atsali wrote:I made one! Went to town today. The hardware wouldn't sell round pipe at any less than a 10 ft section, and it was expensive. So I went around to the scrap dealers. I still couldn't find round tube, but I did find a square pipe. I paid about 2 dollars for the pipe, plus fifty cents for the boy to cut the angle for me. I toyed around with it in the field already, and I can see its going to take some practice to make it work smoothly. And I will have to wear shoes, me thinks. I was all fumble fingers, and I did manage to clog the pipe about every 5th hole. I think it will work, I just have to get a working rhythm... And figure out the right way to insert the pipe without picking up a plug of soil.
Maureen Atsali
Wrong Way Farm - Kenya
Maureen Atsali wrote:You might be right about the square shape being a problem. I could have the angle recut so that the corner is facing forward instead of a flat edge. I can't afford 10 ft of new pipe from the hardware right now, so I will have to see if I can make this one work for the time being.
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