Description
Interested in how to make gardening tools at home? Need a seedling planter for your garden? Want to make a simple DIY project for your gardening enthusiast? In this episode in the House of Hacks series' on DIY gardening tools, Harley shows how to make a long dibber, also known as a dibbler.Springtime is upon us and making homemade gardening tools can be an easy workshop project for either yourself or a loved one. The dibber is an especially easy-to-make DIY tool to help plant seeds and seedlings that requires minimal tools and time and is particularly suited for kids and beginners. These simple tools make great gifts for the gardener in your life.
Inspired by this Charles Dowding video and his website.
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Intro/Exit: "Hot Swing"
Incidental: "The Whip"
Transcript
Need a dibber to plant seedlings in your garden?Want to make a simple DIY for your gardening enthusiast?
With spring coming upon us, we're going to make a long dibber out of this rake handle.
The dibber is an ancient tool that's been around since Roman times. It's also called a dibbler, with an L in it and it's used to plant seeds and seedlings.
It's a simple tool to make and we're just going to be using a belt sander primarily, after sawing off a piece of this wood for another project.
Hi and Welcome! If we're just meeting, I'm Harley and this is the House of Hacks where we use our God-given creative skills, talents and interests to make things here in the shop out of materials like metal, electronics, photography and in this case, wood.
In a future episode, I'm going to make another gardening tool out of this cut off that I just took from the longer rake handle.
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I've got the rake handle here with the end cut off for a future project and I'm just going to mark about a hand width's circle all the way around this piece to give me a guide line to work from.
And now I'm going to use the belt sander to just grind down to the line and make a rounded point on the end.
This was about 10 minutes worth of grinding on the belt sander here and I'm going to put a coat of oil on it to kind of seal it and that can be reapplied each year as needed to kind of keep the toxicity down rather than trying to use Varathane or some other synthetic material like that.
Well that's a simple tool that should be useful for years to come.
I've got some veggies to plant and while I do that, YouTube has some videos over here that it thinks you'll enjoy.
And remember when making things...
Perfection's not required.
Fun is!
