Gadget and tool swap sticky?

[( deleted account )]

The recent thread by Dirty Mike about borrowing a post hole digger made me think that there are s lot of us with various tools that we only use occasionally but need something else on a one time or only occasional basis. We should start a Temporary borrow sticky with both a Wanted and Available to borrow lists. Working out terms between the lender and borrower regarding who might be responsible for breakage, damage or loss would be up to the two of them to work out and by using the service you would agree that any borrowing would have nothing to do with Nodsk Angler! Most of us here are pretty honest, but disputes could happen.
I think this would mainly be for unbreaksble stuff like posthole diggers, some tools, No, you can’t borrow my boat! LOL

I can start out by offering to lend a real handy tree planter auger I built to power with a simple battery powered electric drill. 18v or higher. Anyone looking forward to planting some small rooted trees? My bulletproof auger drills a 3 inch hole about 18 inches deep even in hard soil and makes tree planting on a smaller scale easy. I planted about 40-50 a couple years ago in an afternoon.
Ran across it the other day and thought “ damned shame to see that little gem unused when it should be out planting HABITAT! Makes smaller volume tree planting easy,
Anyway, anyone want to use it pm me, matter of fact I might even have two of them.

 

[Vollmer]

I have a concrete (hammer) drill.
A pex crimper.

Happy to loan them out if anyone needs them.

 

[BrokenBackJack]

Would make it much easier if everyone listed where they reside.

 

[2400]

We should start a Temporary borrow sticky with both a Wanted and Available to borrow lists.

Hows this?

 

[( deleted account )]

Main thing is a wanted to borrow list. Someone needs some tool or gadget rarely and doesn’t want to buy it and have to store it somewhere and collect dust for years . He asks the group and you never know,when someone says “I’ve got one that I’m not using right now so - come and get it”. Could be a good Nodak Angler Service within the group.
if someone has something that he/she thinks someone else could use, like something seasonal or might be handy for an outdoorsy guy, he might post that he has one if anyone wants to use it. Like my little tree planter. Handy and useful as heck this time of year for a tree planting treeaholic outdoors guy who wants to easily plug in up to maybe 100 trees or someone popping in replacement trees on last years tree rows.
Lots of us have all kinds of tools and gadgets that we use rarely that might save someone else the bother and expense of buying one to be used a bit then hang it on the wall collecting dust when someone else might need it briefly.

 

[sweeney]

Go to the groups tab and start a new group then it doesn’t need to be a sticky but rather a group for people who are interested.

 

[( deleted account )]

Thanks Sweeney. I didn’t know there was a group thing. I’m still a computer illiterate newbie! Hah!

 

[ndlongshot]

Bobkat,

I'm more interested in making my own tree auger "dealy" as I would like to have it long term. Can you go into detail on what you used to build it? Thanks!

 

[Velva_zv21]

Went into the groups and didn't see it..... is the group not formed yet?

 

[JMF]

Bobkat,

I'm more interested in making my own tree auger "dealy" as I would like to have it long term. Can you go into detail on what you used to build it? Thanks!

I doubt you could build one cheaper than buying one of these.

http://www.minntrapprod.com/RK-Dirt-Hole-Auger-2-Diameter/productinfo/RK-AUG2/

http://www.minntrapprod.com/RK-AUGER-3-Diameter/productinfo/RK-AUG3/

 

[( deleted account )]

Sure longshot. Where u located? Come borrow and use this one and make like a Chinese company and copy it!
Actually I originally used a chunk of flighting I got at the scrap yard when they used to let old retired inventors tinkerers pick up all kinds of goodies to tinker with. Welded a 1/2 inch rod on one end then hardened it to chuck into my 18 v drill. Then welded some hardened steel for 5he cutting end, though it doesn’t have to be very sharp except in hard ground.
another time I just used a commercial sprawl Mart bulb planter that I also used foe setting raccoon traps. Put a crank in the end. Worked ok in soft ground but was a bit soft and bendy with its Chinese steel.
The flighting and holes should be about 3 inch plus wide. Seems narrow to spread the roots very wide, but the trees don’t seem to mind.
I use a simple 18 v de Walt drill, walk along drill a hole, sometimes dump some water down it, insert roots and angered dirt, tamp and move on. The enemy of those roots is air, so take care to get the air out and replace with dirt and don’t plant them too deep. Too shallow, even with a bit of the tops of the root ball is supposedly better than too deep,
i wonder if some of these drill powered ice augers would work well. I might have an old one around here for giveaway. My heaviest planter I salvaged from a burned out hand held gas engined planter. Simple mod to weld a shaft to chuck in a drill. It’s around someplace in my messy shop, too! I’m a pack rat, and rarely throw anything away!

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I doubt you could build one cheaper than buying one of these.

http://www.minntrapprod.com/RK-Dirt-Hole-Auger-2-Diameter/productinfo/RK-AUG2/

http://www.minntrapprod.com/RK-AUGER-3-Diameter/productinfo/RK-AUG3/

Wow! You are right! Unless you love to tinker and fabricate I’d go for these! Being a trapping supply company, I wonder if they market them for tree planting or raccoon traps, or both.

 

[Davy Crockett]

Another thing that works ok isa tent stake , I cut the end off and chuck it in the drill . I mostly use it to mix and till the soil in grow bags and but have planted trees with it too. Fair warning, She lets you know how much torque your drill has in you snag a rock.

 

[2400]

OK, one gadget and tool swap group ready to go.




http://nodakangler.com/forums/group.php?groupid=37

 

[ndlongshot]

Thanks Bob and JMF! I'll probably order one!

 

[ndbwhunter]

Anybody in the Bis/Man area have a dump trailer that I could use to move some rock? I finally found someone with a rock bucket to clean up the leftover rocks from excavating my basement, but I don't have a dump trailer to haul them with. The guy that I found will only have time to load, so I have to haul.