The best method of keeping your site in good condition is manual weeding from weeds. Removing plants with a strong rhizome will be much easier if you use a makeshift weed stalker. Using such a tool will greatly simplify this task, with it you will not overtake fatigue.
The rooting unit is a tubular body with a cutting part in the form of a gutter. On the reverse side, a home-made tool has a wooden handle, both parts are attached using a screw.
Materials and tools:
- A piece of metal pipe with a diameter of 25-40 mm (a cylinder from a telescopic tube is well suited auto).
- A piece of the handle (you can make it yourself or find it ready)
- Bulgarian with a cutting disc
- Drill with a drill
- File
- Sandpaper
- Measuring square
- screwdriver
- Planer
The available steel tube was cut to the required length and marked according to the drawing below. Then, picking up a grinder with a cutting disc, the workpiece was fixed and two longitudinal cuts were made, after which the excess metal was removed with an inclined cut. The author cut the end of the gutter at an angle of 35 °. Now, setting aside the grinder, the barbs are removed with a flat file. Also, a bottom edge is treated with a semicircular file. Having prepared the working part of the tool, you need to think about its holder. In the back of the tube, the author made holes for a self-tapping screw, a metal product is sanded with sandpaper. Having a prepared handle available, the author had to simply connect it to the second part of the tool and fix it all with a self-tapping screw.
The metal part of this tool can be primed and painted, and the wooden part varnished. it device, will help to the summer resident remove weeds without destroying the adjacent earth layers, and leaving the root system of plants around garden parasites intact.
To remove weeds, the uprooter should be stuck with the hand near the root, and loosen the soil near the weed grass, turning the tool in different directions, and up and down.After this procedure, you can raise the soil with the plant with the product, now you only have to cut the rhizome and remove it from the ground with your hand.
Using the considered tool to remove all kinds of weed grass, it will facilitate garden work, and will help to weed the site more efficiently and quickly.