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The best method of getting rid of weeds is manual weeding. Removing plants with strong rhizomes will be a less tedious task when using a hand-made, self-made root extractor.
Weed Rooter

Device and materials. The home-made tool is based on a tubular body equipped with a cutting part in the form of a chute with sharp edges. A wooden handle is inserted from the back of the fixture, fixed with a screw through the hole in the tube.
Weed Rooter

The manual weed stubber is made from a trimming of a metal pipe with a diameter of 25-40 mm. For the workpiece, the working cylinder from the worn-out telescopic strut of the car is optimally suited - the product has thin walls made of strong steel. For the handle, use a piece of the handle or trim it from birch chocks.

Will need


Tools required:
  • -Bulgarian, cutting disc;
  • -Drill, drill;
  • - Files;
  • -Nazhdachny skin;
  • -Gon measuring;
  • -Screwdriver;
  • -Plane.

Weed Rooter Production Procedure


Weed Rooter

1) The steel tube is cut in length and marked according to the drawing.
2) Fasten the workpiece and grinder first make two longitudinal cuts, then remove the excess part of the metal with a transverse inclined section.
3) Cut the end of the gutter at an angle of 35 °, remove the burrs with a flat file.
4) Sharpen the working parts from the inside, use a semicircular file to process the lower edge.
Weed Rooter

5) Drill a hole for a self-tapping screw and sand the product with sandpaper.
6) Set the tiller body on a handle made of wood and tighten the fixing screw.
If desired, the metal part is primed and painted, and the wooden handle is varnished. The use of a manual uprooter. A homemade device allows you to remove weeds without destroying nearby earth layers and leaving the root systems of the plants grown intact. To remove weed grass, the sticking machine is stuck with a hand near the root and loosened the soil around the weed, turning the tool slightly from “yourself” and to “yourself”.
Weed Rooter

Slightly lifting the plant with soil by the uprooter, they cut the rhizome and remove it from the ground by hand.
Weed Rooter

The use of the considered device for removing weeds facilitates garden work, allows weeding faster and better.
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Comments (2)
  1. Roman Gridin
    #1 Roman Gridin Guests June 16, 2016 20:14
    0
    A long thin knife is quite suitable .. you cut the root deep and pull it out ..
  2. miv
    #2 miv Guests August 7, 2017 11:07
    1
    I bought a similar tool this year, on the advice of a friend. I did not like it, now it rolls around unnecessarily.

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