Weird Gardening Tools

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Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 6 November 2020

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Some gardening tools are so specific that you've probably never heard of them before, but they're useful! Here are a few of my oddball favorites, plus a REALLY useful one at the end of the episode. Buy Birdies Garden Beds Use code EPICPODCAST for 10% off your first order of Birdies metal raised garden beds, the best metal raised beds in the world. They last 5-10x longer than wooden beds, come in multiple heights and dimensions, and look absolutely amazing. Click here to shop Birdies Garden Beds Buy My Book My book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, is a beginners guide to growing food in small spaces, covering 6 different methods and offering rock-solid fundamental gardening knowledge: Order on Amazon Order a signed copy Follow Epic Gardening YouTube Instagram Pinterest Facebook Facebook Group Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I have recently become quite obsessed with tools, specifically garden tools that are a little bit out there, a little bit funky, that certainly you don't absolutely need but you still might
0:26.2	want because they're just quite neat. The first one is for any of you who are out there with tall trees, vines, etc that you would have to climb up on a ladder to trim.
0:40.0	And what you can get is a long-handled tree pruner that is controlled from your actual hand.
0:46.7	So you can grip it that pulls a little pulley system and that actually pulls two blades together at the end and boom you have some cutting action.
0:56.0	Now the thing with these ones is they can't cut branches that thick because it's just difficult
1:00.9	to transmit that force along a tool that long.
1:04.1	So if you wanted to go a little bit more fancy, what you would get is a tree saw.
1:09.6	So this would be one where it's a pole, it's actually an extendable pole, and you can pull it all the way up there
1:15.0	maybe 14, 20 feet sometimes and then saw weigh at a branch that is well out of reach and also quite
1:21.7	thick, then you just don't have to get up on the ladder, which is kind of nice.
1:25.4	We are going to stick in the world of saws here, and you've got a folding saw.
1:31.4	So get one is like seven to nine inches or so. You can get a saw that folds and then you can keep it in your pocket and boom you've got a really powerful saw that can cut through. I mean you're talking four or five six inch
1:44.2	trunks which is something that fits in your pocket which is really nice if you're
1:48.5	out there in the orchard. Now the next one that's a little bit more random is a root saw it's much thinner the blade is thinner and it's much more pointed at the end so if you're trying to dig out a stump or some remaining roots.
2:02.5	So there's something a little bit gnarly,
2:04.0	like I've got some red pepper trees that are creeping in
2:06.0	from my neighbor's yard.
2:07.0	I can cut some of those roots if I wanted to
2:10.0	and just make really short work of them
2:12.0	with a root saw.
2:14.0	Next up you've got a manure fork.
2:17.0	They come in all sorts of different tine amounts.
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