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Tuesday, October 11, 2016

.....making a gizmo



If you grow any type of vine-type crop, such as berries or grapes, you'll immediately understand the functional purpose of this homemade gizmo.For about $4.00.....life becomes so much easier on the farm.

Each and every year......farmers train their vines to grow. It's a process that requires lots of pruning and/or tying the vines to a trellis line. Snips and stretch tie vinyl tape is usually used. Snips has a belt holster....the tape has no real good solution to hold it.

By welding a piece of steel re-bar that was bent into a "J" shape...... to a spring loaded one-way latch, you make a perfect tape hanger. Simple snap onto your trellis line (steel or other) as displayed....you are now freed to use both hands....and there is no fumbling around looking for the tape. Significant time savings. I did after the picture was taken...painted it orange. It was getting "lost" in the vines.


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