For some work, standard garden or country tools are not entirely suitable; you have to spend a lot of effort, but the result is not entirely satisfactory. To combat small weeds and loosen the surface of the soil in the country house or in the garden, it is more convenient to make a homemade garden hoe from an unnecessary steel strip and an ordinary handle for a shovel or fork. Any adult can do it.
Will need
Materials:
- steel strip 3 cm wide;
- bolts and nuts;
- wooden stalk;
- linseed oil.
Tools: protractor, rubber mallet, vice, drill, wrenches, cloth or paint brush.
The process of making a lightweight garden hoe
We cut a piece about 60 cm long from a steel strip 3 cm wide, place it in a vice, having previously set it at an angle of 30 degrees relative to the working surface of the jaws using a protractor and clamp it in this position.
Using a rubber mallet, bend the strip metal at an angle of 90 degrees. We repeat the same thing from the other end of the segment.Moreover, both bends are made with some rounding, since sharp corners here will not provide adequate rigidity and strength to the working body of the garden hoe.
As a result, we get the middle part curved in relation to the side parts by 30 degrees. This angle of the working part of the tool will ensure greater efficiency, ease of use and less effort when working with a garden hoe.
We bend the sides of the working body of the hoe inward in the middle. We also straighten the ends of the bent sections in the middle so that they are parallel to each other. Using a drill and a drill of a suitable diameter, we drill two holes in the longitudinal direction in the straightened sections of the working body of the hoe.
At the end of a standard cutting, we make two oppositely located parallel flats, in which we drill two holes that completely coincide with the holes at the ends of the working body of the garden hoe.
We press the ends of the strip to the flats on the handle, align the holes, insert the bolts and, on the other hand, screw and tighten the nuts onto the bolt rods. It would not be superfluous to pre-lubricate the contacting surfaces of the parts being tightened with a suitable glue for better fixation and fastening strength.
To protect the wood of the handle from moisture, ease of use and aesthetic appeal of the finished instrument, we impregnate the top layer of the wooden part with linseed oil or its suitable substitute.
