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colt seavers · Posted: Sat May 03, 2008 8:56 am Post subject: Drill maker

broom handle, block of wood (2x2), dibber points and hey presto you too can build this rake that will to your own preference and width create numerous seed drills in one go! The advantage of this is that your drills will be perfectly parallel to each other and depending on how lazy you want to be will depend on how many dibber points you wish to attach. Similar to a rake but with more spacing and blunter points.

Heres a rough idea of what i mean.

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frenchchique · Joined: 22 Sep 2006 Posts: 3506 Location: Kent

Wouldn't know where to start to make it but it's a very, very neat idea Cool

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coooooooooooooooooooooooolio Laughing

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colt seavers · Posted: Sat May 03, 2008 9:42 am Post subject:

frenchchique wrote:

Wouldn't know where to start to make it but it's a very, very neat idea Cool

Broom handle, nails, block of wood and something pointy to make a drill and then bang/bodge/nail it all together Shocked

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wardy · Posted: Sat May 03, 2008 9:57 am Post subject:

broom handle - check
nails - check
wood - check
something pointy - er, er, erm doh I'll go to the shop and enquire Cool

gormless · Doc Joined: 22 Jan 2006 Posts: 644

carrots you might get through a few carrots though well itl keep the wabbits happy if nowt else Laughing

colt seavers · Posted: Sat May 03, 2008 10:00 am Post subject:

Im sooo lazy i plan to make one with 6 points at 6inches apart to make 6 drills in one go.....ooops thats a 666 Twisted Evil

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wardy · Posted: Sat May 03, 2008 10:04 am Post subject:

you'll just have to rethink that one. Can't go having 666's all ovver t'shop. Tongues will wag Laughing

So pointy things, thinking hard here. Thinking Bic pens with lids downwards to make a right sharp seed drill. Waddya think? Aint got none like Cool

I could be a clever clogs and make some wooden dowels with a power drill, better still, use the power drill's drill bits Exclamation

How does one get the pointy bits to stay in the wooden rakey top bit, without falling out? Glue and pressure or sommat cleverer? I'm excellent at joinery Cool

colt seavers · Posted: Sat May 03, 2008 10:07 am Post subject:

im just gonna make small stakes of wood and nail them in, if you give the stakes a point then you can have a v-shaped drill i suppose

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wardy · Posted: Sat May 03, 2008 1:11 pm Post subject:

I'm thinking drill the top rakey bit but not right through and then using wood dowels for pointy bits inserted into said holes. Mind you I've not got a tool for making those wood dowels. Not even sure what one is Shocked

I'm doing woodwork this afto and have to say I'm a tad miffed at Wickes adding up. Worse than mine. They tell me to fix my pales to my fence (which comes in kit form) at 65 m spacings. I did that and it took 12 pales to span the width. They only supply 10 pales Evil or Very Mad

They were in the sale, one day only, cuh not bloody surprised. Bet they're twice the price when OH goes for two more kits today just for the pales. Bastids Exclamation