You ’ve belike get a line the metaphor of going over something with a “ okay - tooth comb . ” But have you ever thought of going over something with a okay - tooth saw ?
As hobby farmers , we all love “ hacks”—innovative ways to do things that often combine common shaft or items with outside - the - corner thinking . For object lesson , these six garden ward-heeler that reuse nylon stocking , orthese 15 hacks applicable to many different areas of husbandry .
Of course , you must apply caution when put things to use in unintended room — safe concern , you recognize — but I do have one creative taxi I ’ve put to good use of goods and services on several occasions , and I ’d like to share it in case you might find it helpful too .
It involves using an ordinaryhand sawas a combination rake / tiller . While clearing small tree from the edges of my farm ’s fields , I like to keep an sometime , dull saw by my side for argufy away foliage dust , little branch , and various weeds grow between the young Tree — in part so I can see to write out the tree diagram down at ( or just below ) ground level , and in part to net the grease to tolerate skunk to grow again .
The simplicity and all - in - one nature of this nag is what I find invoke . By localise the saw blade teeth - down into the soil and pulling it along perpendicular to the focussing of the blade , I can well scrape away loose debris while at the same time snag small plants to chop them off at ground level . With a few prompt passing game ( and put on nothing is root too deep ) , it ’s light to reduce the ground to bare soil .
For transfer large amounts of loose material , it ’s not as fast as a rake , but it ’s more thorough , and dust does n’t get stuck in the saw teeth the way it can in between roue tines . For removing weeds from the soil , it ’s not as effective as a cultivator ( for the most part you ’re not really pulling them out by the roots ) , but it makes a undecomposed jump and can apace reduce an sphere down to naked soil that can then be worked with other puppet .
As strange a hack as this might seem to be , I ’ve found it to be surprisingly effective . Several years ago , I cleared a expectant turn of sapling trees from the edge of a field , which left behind an area of ground cut across in leaf junk but very few plant . As I cut down the trees , I also work on clearing the ground , section by section , with my dull adage , which eventually produced a sizable country of bare soil . I could have endeavor to reseed the field with grass , but instead , I just left it alone and trusted that the green goddess from the side by side field would colonize the area quickly enough .
Believe it or not , that ’s exactly what happened . Nowadays , the expanse substantiate a lovely selection of grass and flowers , whereas a nearby section of solid ground that I did not meticulously clear with my hired hand saw ( allow for the leafage debris instead ) is come back with more dope than grass .
Is this whole theme kind of strange ? perhaps . But it ’s a neat way to put an one-time , dull hired man saw back into use , and it ’s certainly been working for me .
