How to Sharpen Garden Tools the Easy Way!
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- Опубліковано 11 вер 2024
- Winter is a great time to perform some regular maintenance on the garden tools that we use frequently in the warmer months. Join us as we show you how to quickly and easily keep them in great shape.
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Karl sharping his lawnmower blade, how does a feller call the police
Had me some mustard and biscuits prior to filming this video.
@@gardeningwithhoss You know the movie for sure, I thought of sling blade while you were sharping
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Lots of good information here, Travis! I remember watching my Daddy take care of his tools - He always said to buy the best you can afford, and just like you said, take care of them and they'll take care of you! Lord help me, I can't wait to get moved and get my garden shed organized!
You'll get there. I know it probably seems overwhelming at this point.
I am inspired now. Going to hang them and oil them ASAP.
Go for it Batman!
Travis, thanks for the video. One thing that I learned from my Dad, is to have a plastic bucket full of sand with motor oil in it, next to where you keep all your tools. When done working, all you have to do is move the blade around in the sand and it is cleaned and oiled. Works great!!! Keep the videos coming.
I like that idea!
Isn't the motor oil bad for your plants? I heard of using vegetable oil because it will not contaminate your soil.
@@terrielvwl We've never noticed a problem, but good suggestion.
If you make a mixture of 50% raw linseed oil and 50% mineral turpentine, it reduces the viscosity of the oil so that it soaks deeper into the wood The turpentine then evaporates leaving the oil deeply impregnated into the wood
Thanks for sharing Ken!
I’m inspired to clean and condition my tools now. Well, maybe tomorrow.........!!! Seriously, I am going to get it done! Thanks for being a great teacher.
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spot on!
Best thing I’ve ever done for my wood handles! Definitely get rid of that varnish! The hand feel, look, and then protection gained from the boiled linseed oil, transforms these well used tools into treasures! Lol, love a good tool and it’s so worth the effort to keep them maintained.
I keep saying I’m going to add some type of oil to a bucket of sand to keep them clean throughout the season, but haven’t tried it yet. How about you all, ever try it?
Have not tried it, but can definitely see where it would work.
I really enjoyed this video .I was going to ask my son to sharpen my garden tools but now I think I can do it myself.Thank you very much.Happy gardening 🥬🌶🥦
You can certainly do it yourself! Thanks for watching!
I just bought the Hoss File for Christmas! Thanks for the timely video, can’t wait to sharpen my tools.
Love your videos!
Excellent video...best video I've seen on sharpening and tool maintenance! Thanks Travis.
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Excellent ! Always have used Boiled Linseed Oil on the wood parts, never thought of using it for the metal. Thanks for the video Travis.
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I like the fact you take good care of your tools. I feel like it gives me a little more sense of self worth if I take good care of the tools that take good care of me. I’d like to make a suggestion if I may. As you’re sharpening your edged tools, carry your file stroke from one edge point to the next without stopping in the middle. Use the length of the file through the file pass. You’ll have to synch it in the vise up close to the business end of the tool because it’ll shift on you. Doing it this way will give you a more uniform edge on the finished product. Love the videos and keep them coming. I’m looking forward to seeing more videos from Greg this year too. Y’all take care.
Thanks for the tip!
Great stuff. I used to use files until I got a dremel rotary tool😂👍🏼
I have one of those too, but there's just something soothing about doing it with a file.
Good job Travis!
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Great video Travis. May have inspired me to work on some tools. BTW, that compost shovel would more properly be called a scoop. The wide fork you call a hay fork is similar to what we used for silage, called, you guessed it, a silage fork. The silage fork would have a shorter D handle and the tines would all be the same length and stronger. Used one a lot on the farm.
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Perfect! Great information.
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Should give that ole vise a little love while you are at it cleaning up and maintaining your tools.
Probably wouldn't hurt.
When I heard the vise squeek I said to myself, "self that thing could use a good dose of marine axle grease on the screw and after a good brush down on the surface rust a dose of 3 in 1 oil.".
For sure Trav shoot that bad boy with some PB Blaster✅✅
Love this video! 2 Things: 1. Are you planning to do anymore 2 minute tip videos in the future? 2. If i'm planting the Mini Bell Pepper mix, will I have to stake up those plants when they are mature enough or leave them be since the peppers are not weighting the plant down?
1) Two-Minute Tips were good while they lasted, but the YT algorithm now strongly favors a longer video. So that's what we do so we can reach as many folks as possible.
2) Always a good idea to support pepper plants at some level. Even if it's just a stake tied to the main stem of the plant.
Happy New Year! Might be my 1st question ever. My question is: If I have any of those varnish handles, can I sand them down and put my own wax coat on them, sand them again and after some use oil them? Much thanks in advance. Monica Sherman
I wouldn't worry about the wax. Just sand off the varnish and coat with linseed oil.
Great video
Thanks!
Do you have an old handle, and an old plastic bucket with a metal bail, that is no longer useable? Make a wire weeder. You will be glad you did.
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does the cultivator teeth need to be sharpened? and if so would i sharpen it like the rest of the attachments? thank you HOSS yall rock!!!
No the soil will keep them sharp
@@gardeningwithhoss thank you. well i only asked bc i let them get rusty.
Burn the linseed oil rag before it smolders and catches fire anyway.
Yep. Not a good idea to leave those things sitting around.
How did the no till bed go in all that rain?
It did pretty well. All the plots in the "dream garden" are pretty flat and have enough compost to where they don't hold much standing water.
Good info, also love the sweater, where can I get one for my hubby?
It's a Patagonia pullover fleece. Not sure they make that particular design anymore. This one is several years old.
@@gardeningwithhoss Thanks , Your right. I just checked their website all solid colors. If you decide you want to sale yours I'll give you $80 for it! :)
I use it too much to part with it.
TRAVIS WOULD MINERAL OIL WORK ON THE GARDEN TOOLS ALSO?
Would work for the metal, but I prefer linseed oil for the wood.
Looks like a wood maul instead of an axe.
You are correct. It is a splitting maul, so not technically an axe.
Hey trav what kinda wax do yall use on the handles?
We don't wax them ourselves. They are waxed by our handle manufacturer in Tennessee.
Talking bout taters....will you be planting some once the weather shows signs of warming up?
Here in zone 8b, we aim to plant taters around mid February.
Have you ever tried planting in a pallet square? I was wanting to try something like @offgridwithdougandstacy.
Have seen it done. But we always plant our taters in the ground.
What do you use to protect the metal?
The linseed oil works great.
I don't understand why its so hard to find leveling rakes anymore.
Me either. We used to use them frequently when I worked at a golf course in college. It's a very necessary tool for my gardening operation.
I find them at concrete supply stores. The rakes are used in spreading wet concrete
OMG a college boy with a file... what could possibly go wrong! :) In all seriousness try and keep that linseed oil off your hands... I'll probably die from cancer, grew up with my hands in solvent most of my life before I knew any better... change now while you can, that stuff isn't good for your internal organs, and the worst of it goes right thru your skin. Man up and don't worry what anyone thinks about it, put on disposable gloves... especially if your kids are watching. One day when you are old like me, you might want to live forever... just saying.
Probably not a bad idea. I hate the way those gloves feel, but better to be safe.
Instead of leaving them hanging in the pole barn you guys in Georgia could always use them to run off your election officials lol
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Yall watch out using the term wheel hoe on Facebook. Somebody asked me on there how I kept my garden so weed free and I told them light cultivation with a wheel hoe. Facebook restricted my account 24hrs for bullying and name calling. I challenged it but it didn't help. I guess their system picked up the hoe part and decided I called somebody a name. LOL
😂 Goodness gracious!
I don't know how the alright alright alright thing started but surely it's run its course? The forced silliness is annoying
Sorry you feel that way.