What is a wonderful shovel so good?
The excitement around the new instrument has risen to a serious one. It would seem, why reinvent the wheel? However, the extraordinary shovel is as much different from the bayonet we used to be like a rake from a pitchfork - the goal for the tools is one, but it is achieved in different ways.
If it is necessary to loosen the soil thoroughly, it is not necessary to turn its layers upside down, it is enough to slightly lift a small layer of it, passing clods between immersed teeth. This is how the wonderful shovel works.
Most of all, this unusual shovel is like a digging fork, used for hard soils, only these move in the soil with the help of an abutment. There is, however, one feature - it is possible to work only in moist soil, preferably in the early spring, when the snow has already melted, but the moisture has not completely evaporated from the fertile layer.
In a solid, calcined earth, calcined in the hot sun, this shovel is practically useless, you need good irrigation. After watering, when the soil becomes tender( but not too wet), a fork-like shovel, which many call wonderful, works easily and with pleasure.
How to work as a garden ripper?
There are several modifications to the new tool, and one of them is especially interesting - the frame combines garden forks with rakes, there is an emphasis at the back, and two long handles allow you to work almost without bending. According to those who have already tried the miracle tool in action, this option allows to break even soddy soils, the only condition is that the teeth should be inserted into the fertile layer not for the entire length, but only for half.
The principle of the ripper's operation is that the rake lifts the turf, and the long teeth in the soil penetrate deep furrows without turning over the .Some advise to remove the usual shovel with a shovel, and only then proceed to cultivate the land, biting into it for all 30 centimeters of teeth. But such an approach would mean double work and the fact that know-how is absolutely useless.
How to make a miracle shovel with your own hands?
Having a picture or a photo of a new instrument on hand, you can order it to your familiar welders, while making a miracle-shovel with your own hands is the best way to save money and grow up to a master-at-all-hands. If at the dacha you made a water pipe from PVC, and you did not have time to give the apparatus for welding plastic pipes, or you know where you can get it - it's only for the materials.
You will need 4 meters of PVC pipes with a diameter of 20 millimeters, 6 or 7 tees( depending on whether you want to get a tool 60 or 70 centimeters wide), as well as 2 crosses and 2 corners.
When welding PVC, be careful, the plastic cools down rather slowly, and the short parts are forced to grasp the heated areas, use gloves for work.
The working part consists of a number of tees connected by a short length of pipe. On the edges are welded crossings, followed by corners, rotated 90 degrees with respect to free branches of tees. Teeth are made from 30 cm lengths of pipe, from the middle cut in the form of a tooth, and soldered into tees and lower branches of crosses, cut forward.
To the corners welded curved C( or P, as seen) pipe, its short parts should be 25 centimeters. In general, to get a successful miracle-shovel with your own hands, video, drawing and other materials can be found in the Global Network.
You can replace the teeth of PVC with metal, made of sheet steel, 5 millimeters thick, welded on pieces of metal rods, 13 millimeters in diameter, which in turn are fused into tees and crossings. Such a construction entirely of metal will be even more reliable, as a basis for welding the teeth and the stop is taken corner 35x35 millimeters.
Cuttings should be wooden, the nests for them should be made both in plastic and in metal long enough and gradually expanding( when working with PVC it is better to use an adapter for a larger diameter of the pipe and make nests under the cuttings from its segments).
