Making A Dibber Drum For Planting Garlic (or is it a lantern wheel? or a spikey roller?)
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- Опубликовано: 1 ноя 2018
- This took longer to make than I’d thought. It’s simple enough, of course, but it has to be measured out carefully or the holes won’t come out at the right spacings. And if you get that wrong on a field scale then you could use more space than you need, or the crop is small because it’s too squashed together, or the weeds have too much room. So it’s worth taking the time to get it right.
Of course you don’t need a plasma cutter (mine’s by r-tech in England) - you could make most of it in wood - but if you’re going to load yours up with weight like this one, then it has to be pretty sturdy. Good luck!
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You're having way too much fun with that plasma cutter Tim! 😁
Tim, I take my hat off to your ingenuity!!!
Now the suspense is killing me. I'm sure it will. You're so inventive and it turned out so well.
This is how the Industrial Revolution began. People making tools to work the land to reduce the need for manual labour. Nice job! That plasma cutter is being well used.
Ii guess I am not the only one that is have 'big boy toy' envy over that plasma cutter.
I keep telling everyone - it's a tool, not a toy! I just keep it in the toy cupboard, that's all...
Your creativity astounds me-you see a problem and come up with such inventive solutions!! Bravo!!
I love your little farm inventions thanks
This plasma cutter seems like SUCH an aid!!
(Of course we won´t forget that you hinted at getting used to it taking quite some effort.)
When it works well it's like magic - and when it doesn't I could cry!
I love seeing your diy projects, I can't wait to see if it works or not!! Good luck and be careful!!
That plasma cutter is great! You can make any shapes out of steel you want! It's no wonder you love it!
It is so nice to see Tinker Tom at work.
Well done Tim Sandra must be so proud of you🤗.God bless
You are brilliant to come up with the drum. Marvellous!
This is brilliant and so pretty too! Love it.
You're a legend Tim, great job.
Just when I think you can't get more creative, you find a way. I'm excited to see it in action!
I used to watch Cricut videos. That plasma cutter is my new favorite.
I love your design, I can't wait to see if it works!
Brilliant as always. Love your ingenuity!
Whilst looking at this I was thinking of how nice it would be to have a plasma cutter like that. After a while I realised that in my hands such a machine wouldn't be very useful at all, and what I really should wish for was to have your level of creativity. Very entertaining video, through I feel like quite an unimaginative dullard after seeing what you are capable of...
creativity is a matter of practice. try making a model out of cardboard and then improving it. or try modeling your favourite vehicle in a program like fusion 360. keep going.
When I my knees started failing and I had to give up the commercial side of beekeeping, I had to figure out a way to make a living using the skills resources I have. (No qualifications - so no job, even if I wanted one.) But it's been hard and comtinues to be hard. I don't see this as creativitiy really - just mild panic! How am I going to get the job done in a reasonable time without hurting myself more than I need to?
So impressed how you use your resources to such great success! Ingenious
That's a smart way to make a grid. Thanks for sharing.
Amazing ingenuity!
Oooo I want a plasma cutter!! Not sure what I'd build, but I'd get up to something! Loving your dibber innovation. Can't wait to see it in action 😃👍
Well done! 😀
You are clever people! That plasma cutter is something else. I really enjoy your videos! I think I'm glad I only have to plant a little over 100 loves of garlic, I Certainly don't have the grey matter to design and build things like you do!
Klaus
Brilliant, I think. Bravo! And a cliffhanger! I am hopeful that it will work wonderfully!
Cliff hanger! Can't wait for part two.
This looks great and I think it will work.👍
Amazing how versatile plasma cutters are.
Of course I bet it will work quite well, at least, as all the other fantastic creations from Tim.
Tim you inspire me to be more creative and executive, thank you
Aw, shucks!
Nice job part 2 will be fun
Brilliant :)!.... most definitely will tune in next time :)
The spikes c would be an excellent application for 3d printing. Or make a mould and cast them in concrete or resin.
Be careful with burning PVC, it releases chlorine gas.
You're right Sam, on all counts.
@@WayOutWestx2 he loves the smell of napalm
You're right about PVC, but I believe this is actually ABS. It still emits noxious fumes, but not as immediately deadly as chlorine.
Hearing about your plasma cutter gives me more joy than you know
Really hope it works! Keep me updated Tim. Hi Sandra 👋
Just so reminiscent of Wallis and grommet, lol
Of course it will work Tim, with a bit of adjusting if necessary. 2.5k garlic cloves to plant! Is there a serious vampire problem in your neck of the woods or do you have a good market for the stuff?
Just hoping we can find buyers for half of it next year..
@@WayOutWestx2 physalis is a good earner or vanilia
Hi Tim, this looks like fun! I used to plant 5000 cloves a year - by hand. One small refinement I could suggest for the planters' comfort: carry the cloves in a bag around your waist, walk upright and drop each clove in turn down a length of plastic pipe. You can tread it in with your heels as you fumble for the next one. This method served my spine well for years.
Good luck with everything, you both continue to inspire, as always.
Chris
Thanks Chris. Yes, we're almost up to that number this year. I have started an experiment where I pull and plant at the same time, through the mulch. It's all about trying not to disturb the top layer of the soil. I'm not sure that your method would work because some of the cloves are as big as an orange. I'm always looking for ways to stream-line the operation though...!
@@WayOutWestx2 There is an Indian hand-held machine which is effectively a garlic drill: it plants the cloves in "smile" position, which is possible to achieve mechanically and a reasonable compromise for good growth (upright planting as you'd do by hand is hard to achieve by machine, unless you use a cartridge-type transplanter). I built myself a prototype of the Indian machine, with some success. I was growing conventional garlic, and I agree that the large cloves might be more of a challenge. You're welcome to more details if you like.
The thing is, I'm down on my knees anyway, to harvest the bulb with a trowel, so it's easy to drop a clove into the hole that's left. But, yes, please, if you can find me a link I would be interested.
I absolutely love watching how you engineer these tools, every few seconds I find myself yelling "genius!!" at the screen, as I'd never have thought of doing it in quite the way you do, yet when I see what you've done, it makes so much sense. You really have a gift for this. Thank you for sharing.
*Necessity is the mother of invention!!!*
Tim, you are very creative. Your plasma cutter is very useful. Can't wait to see how well this dibber works.🙂😏🙃
Thanks, Janet : - ) I'm going to feel pretty silly if it doesn't work.
Will tune in next time.
Hope the ...uh... composition of the soil won´t let you down.
Nice job plasma cutter looks real useful greetings from Donegal
Brilliant DIY mam
I love you both!!
Aw!
So many inventions, so little time!
Waiting for a good rain might help...or hinder with mud sticking. Very clever and interesting project.
It was strange - the wet mud made it easier for the spikes to sink in, but the also collapsed more easily too!
It's absolutely amazing what you're able to make yourself! I want to come clean your workshop so badly xD
Ha! Anytime!
This makes me miss having my workshop so muh. I can't believe I've gone without one for so long.
Everyone needs a workshop!
I like this very much. It must have been very tedious forming the pipe as you did, I hope it holds up well. I thought you would try mounting hollow unformed pieces of pipe so it took a plug out of the soil, but your way seems much easier to attach them.
Yes, round lengths of pipe would probably work, but how to attach them?
@@WayOutWestx2 Without a bolt across them on the other side.
Instablaster.
Looks like a Dad's Army contraption hope it works well fore ye
I love that you put your mind to work and do your best to build what you need!!! I wouldn't be able to wrap my head around it!!! I'm sure it will work !! Great job Tim!!!
Thanks, Sarah : - )
Tim: Creates a machine showing him where he can _stick it._ 😉
Brilliant! ... you're really a mad scientist in disguise, aren't you? :)
: - )
Of course it'll work Tim. You fabricobble with the best of them.
Thanks Tim. Fabricobbler - I like it!
I learned that one from Chris @ AVE, it suits me so well I started using it...
Sure it will work especially if the soil is try. I look forward to watching the results
Thanks Patrick (You haven't posted in a while - everything ok?)
Not a cliffhanger, Tim! I do hope it works for that was quite a lot of effort to construct. Touch wood.
Whoa! Certainly a viable piece of equipment! Plus not just for garlic!!
Thanks. Onion sets? beans? what else?
@@WayOutWestx2 yes, seedlings for sure...if you can remove some of the dibblers, you can use it for seedlings that are spaced farther apart.
Like garlic much? lol. Brilliant project. Having a blast with the plasma cutter and software I would imagine, looks enjoyable. Hope it works OK. Thanks for the video.
Thanks - yes, when it all works the pc is brilliant. (And when it doesn't, not so much!)
@@WayOutWestx2 Oh you said a mouth full there! It really can be super frustrating when a computer messes up. Thanks for the reply and the best of luck with all your endeavors!
Strikes me that the compartments for the concrete blocks look just about right for 1 gallon plastic containers. Filled with water each weighs 10lbs, and give you a good way of regulating the weight for different soils, by adding more or taking them off as needed. And with the benefit of a handle on each one making them much quicker and easier to manhandle (or womanhandle) in use.
You're right - and perhaps easier to handle than the blocks - but I don't have any of them
Spikey roller
Wow😀
A real cliff hanger... can't wait for the exciting conclusion!
A good farmer is also a good mechanic. I am pretty sure your roller will work. might take a little fiddling. But the idea is sound.
Nice design! To help with the soil inconsistency I would suggest a thinner row, so all the force could be put into 2 rows instead of spread across 4. That would take twice as long but still.
Yes, you're right. Now I'm thinking 3 rows instead of 4
@@WayOutWestx2 Luckily you can just just take one of the spokes off and test it without making permanent changes!
Awesome content and editing - Really enjoyed it. Have you considered making a back saver? - Another section behind this with storage for the garlic and a seat? I'm not familiar with horses though - But - Maybe??
That's fantastic. have you started on the Santa Sleigh yet ???????
Can't wait to see the next segment.
Those plasma cutter offcuts look like little hand spades.
This is absolutely fantastic, I'm obsessed with garlic so I'm a little bit jealous 😁 great work as usual.
One wonders about the need to plant so much garlic and the creation of another fine piece of equipment on your part..can you elaborate on what you do with it, from here they look like large cloves. Greetings from Pennsylvania!
Hi Graceann in Pennsylvania! We're hoping to sell half of them next year, if all goes well. They're elephant garlic, so especially big...
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Maybe you could have made some triangular spikes out of metal with the plasma cutter. The idea is to cut them in such a way that they interlock and form a sharp end. Think of a two triangles interlocking via slits and they form a pyramidal shape like the tips of an hunting arrow! Then weld some bolts to them and then secure them to the wooden frames. May not be easy to pull off, but they would be a lot sturdier and more effective than PVC pipe tips. :) last longer too! (An idea from a future mechanical engineer. Hope it helps!)
Good thinking, Kevin, but the pvc will probably outlive the steel in this area, plus it's smoother so less likely to get bunged up. And there's a lot less welding this way too. But please make one your way and we'll compare
I wonder how a plasma cutter would have affected medieval weaponry? Or just ingenuity in general. Wonder if there are extant medieval agriculture devices worth adapting? Wonder if a triangular arrangement of rebar would make a good spike?
To the farming museum!
Can you plant garlic from supermarket bulbs? The certified ones in the garden centres are terribly expensive to plant any quantity!
You can, but it may well have diseases/infections. The garden ones would be certified not to have them
maybe some more timbers between your "pin-bars", so that the roller gets more of a cloed up surface -> moves more fluently and flattens the soil around the holes
I'd have thought you'd make to be pulled by one of those one horsepower propulsion units you have. Maybe add some wheels like bike wheels at the ends to keep it from tilting into the dirt if you're going to push it yourself.
One of the donkeys should be able to do it. But their hoofs are so small they'd leave similar holes. (Must try training them to take 6" steps and walk in parallel..)
Thats a clever tool you've built there! Just a quick comment, if you put the frame on upside down you'd have the wood pressing down against the pipe and not have the pipe be held by screws alone.
ah, you missed a bit, Tommy! Have a look at 6.28. The screws are only there to stop the axle drifting sideways - all the weight is on the D brackets..
@@WayOutWestx2 now that I'm thinking about it it is easy to underestimate the strength of a properly fastened bracket. To shear the screw heads one would have to overload the jig to the point where it wouldn't be feasible to move by hand. Thanks for taking your time to reply, have a good weekend
Yes, now which day is planting and video upload?
I am hoping this will work, my thoughts are orientation of the pipe work, do you lead with a point or a broad part of the pvc? If it all goes loose, try making a 3-tab-washer on your plasma cutter as we enjoy watching that work. You could simply place washer between bolt head and pipe and bend over the tabs to contain the pipe. The other concern, should you have used a spacer pipe? Because if you load the top of the bolt head, this will try and push it through the PVC pipe and then the wooden support, where as if tightened the bolt to a pipe, the load would be transmitted through that to the wooden supports and not through the wooden support - Oh goodness a DR3 meeting is in order!!
Brilliant work Tim!!
Thanks James - you're right but it seemed to work fine anyway. I'd love to work in a little design team but I don't know anyone around here who does the same sort of thing. How about you? do you design and make stuff?
@@WayOutWestx2 Tim, Sorry about the delay, if you can put it onto paper and make a pdf and send it to me i'll be more than happy to go over the designs, make mark ups and send them back, that would be great fun and something i really enjoy doing - i'll email you this coming week, keep safe and keep well.
That might work, but it would be much handier if you lived down the road. Any plans to move? (No hurry - any time next week will be fine.)
Will that top block fall.off?
That plasma cutter is just the best thing since sliced bread. Can you make gates with it? Hope ye are well.what will you so with all that garlic?
Ha! Yes gates - how many do you want?! Each one comes with a free garlic : - )
If you switch the Apparatus upsidedown, the wooden part would be higherup and more able to avoid obstacles.
Also when moving the Apparatus as it is, the concreet weights wil bump up and down banging on the plank.
wich could make it become detached
But i like the design anyway.
Keep it comming!
I deliberately set them down low so the centre-of-gravity was low because I was worried it might tip over on slopey ground
Kind of wondered if it would have been easier to make a tool with four points or hook or tine like that you drag making lines or drills, then a sheet of hardboard, or thin plywood with holes at the required spacing to act as your guide. You would put in the drills then put the hardboard onto the drills & put a garlic clove at each holes, move hardboard, rinse & repeat. Once planted the soil brought up in making the drill could be pulled over each clove. Maybe your soil is too stony to get approx straight lines. If so perhaps you could pull a mesh with an angled front to catch the stones & let the soil fall back, might never be dry enough so it would have to be done with a tarp to dry the soil first as a long term soil improvement tactic over a few years. Still your cylindrical mace looks far more interesting. Good luck!
good ideas, though if we took the stones out there wouldn't be much left! Trying the machine today though..
Hi, I think you should have hollow tubes for making the holes in the ground, so it pulls up a plug if soil rather than trying to push in. What about drilling a 40 diameter hole in the timber cross bars and fixing short lengths of tube in it, have you seen a lawn aerator, basically a larger version of that?, anyhow good luck.
I thought about that but realised they'd all be jammed with stones within minutes. Also, leaving the pipe straight means they might break at the leading edges? Or shatter completely?
What is the spacing and row size this thing produces?
6" x 6" We've just planted 6,000 bulbs with it
Dang everyone seems to have a plasma cam these days!
Ha! There's always something else though, isn't there? I wish I had a BIG laser cutter. How easy life would be...
Looks like it would work to me. But let us see it in action please.
Отличная подделка! Но, меня интересует только один вопрос. Плазморез с ЧПУ у Вас в каждой семье? Вы его сами сделали? Удачи Вам.
What program do you use to design with ty
I use Coreldraw
You are SO ingenious!
Are you planning to become commercial garlic farmers? Do you still have to put the cloves in the ground by hand? This unbelievable contraption only makes the holes, right?
Yes, that's the plan - garlic barons! Seriously, it's one of the few crops we can grow without spending a fortune that may be worth something
@@WayOutWestx2 I grow garlic, although only a few dozen each year. Plant in late October (is that why they're associated with vampires / Halloween? Some gardening guru here called them a 'spooky plant'), harvest in late July, 9 months, just like a human baby. Except one year we had a very very wet July and they had all rotted away...............
I so wanna know what happens....
Next time you need to melt that PVC remember it's very very poisonous!!!! It wasn't a good idea to do that indoors the fumes can kill you. I use to work as a mixer in a plant that made it. Just trying to look out for ya ;)
Yes, you're right Russel. Thanks. I tried hard not to have it catch fire, but still...
Are you gonna sell them or is it a one of?
I would certainly sell them once I'm sure they work. Different sizes?
If you'd like to improve the spikes, you could laboriously cut all the corners off. Like this: photos.app.goo.gl/kTyMCM7kQaHRD4vc7
Might not take too terribly long if you have a reciprocating saw.
You're right and they'd look neater too.
Great drawing btw
@@WayOutWestx2 Thanks! 3D modeling is my side-profession.
One wood screw holding that axle seems insufficient, perhaps a bracket going over the top as well.
Agree, or the axle below the frame.
No wait! The D shaped plate with the hole in is what holds the weight of the axle. The screw just stops it migrating sideways. Have another look.
@@WayOutWestx2 Evidently, I must have fast forwarded past that part. It all makes sense to me now.
That's nifty. you are gonna be one tired man after planting and harvesting 2500 bulbs of garlic. good luck and happy eating.
no cleanup? looks more like a laser cut than plasma.
I have seen Tim clean up after the cutter with an angle grinder on other occasions, so i´m guessing he just didn´t show it in this video...
Also: The edges definitely look angle ground to me. ^^
I know - it's really great on the thicker steel
Still not believing you "never attended college", as you said, cause I was sure you just came from beeing a university professor in literature and philosophy, sir!
But then, when seeing the fine lines and curves for the "handle" of the new machine, I think it could have been "arts" ???
By the way: My plasmacutter still is no more than 1 niro-tube and 6 ballbearings, as the weather is horrible and my vice is outside ;-(
Very difficult to deside, which set of steppermotors, controllers and brakeout-boards to buy, as those affordable are with parallel (!!!) ports ... which are not even to find on my oldes computers in my fundus ... There are adapters but the friendly chinese friends are not able to get my concerns about parallel ...
If using (and buying!) mach3-plasmacutter-software (400€) I for sure do not want to use it on a win-95-Computer ...
I joined a couple of FB cnc plasma groups and learned a lot just by watching from the side-lines. But I'm only trying to operate one, not build one.
(If I'd gone to college I'm sure I'd remember!)
Isn't it a bit late for planting Garlic ?
My garlic has already green leaves.
We always go for the end of October - a little late this year but I think they'll be fine
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