I used a 1/2" red plastic tomato stake from Lowes that was 76", and got the inner tube and strapping tape from a request I posted on Craigslist. I just finished making it, and IT WORKS! I have a small and delicate flower bed, which is hard to get to without damaging flowers. This tool is GREAT! I bent it with a narrower shape, and it made the weeds fear me! THANK YOU FOR THIS VIDEO!!!!
This is a great idea and must be one of the best I've seen this year. It's very generous of you to share, you could have made a pile of money from this deceptively simple but very clever invention. You're probably too busy with the strawbs and veg :-)) Thanks again for your selflessness.
We used steel strapping as hoes 30 years ago in Ontario Canada on onion farms. We just made the loop smaller so you could get in between the onions. I have one in my tool shed.
Wife had me researching stirrup hoes this morning and we stumbled across this youtube video. You've now got me dumpster diving for scrap steel banding straps in preparation for making at least one of these. No rubber tubing however I have rolls and rolls of electrical tape and a couple of spare hickory wood handles which should serve me well. Thanks for the video and best case I'll have a free stirrup hoe and worse case just a few wasted hours putting this together.
Thumps up........Wonderful Idea.....Your presentation unique. Thank you much for sharing the information with us. You are a true lover of farmers. I am from Kerala, India. I will show this video in the farmers club meetings.
@@EricBrennanOrganic Three years ago I have shown your idea to mane Indian farmers especially in Kerala. Most of them collected scrap and made the hoe as you have narrated. Thanks a lot. Most of them found this very useful and easy. Thanks a lot.
Thank you for sharing your wonderful idea. I love that it's made from recyclable materials, lightweight and so simple and very easy to use.blooming marvelous, thank you for your kindness in sharing and I can imagine every allotment holder using one.
Great idea!! I told my husband I was going to buy a regular one at Lowe's and cut the handle to make it really short and you just gave me a great idea in how to make one. Thank you!!
Wow. I’m from South Africa gonna be moving to an organic essential oils farm. Will have a large lab our force so I’m building lots of these thanks for sharing
Like you need to list the benefits! God Bless You Dr Brennan, you could have made your fortune with this "invention", but you chose to share with the world for free! Again, God Bless You!
Fantastic invention! I bought a Hula Hoe and have never been able to get it to work effectively. I'm going to make one of these and put the HH on eBay. Thanks!
Thank you so much for this tutorial! Just happen to have a huge stand of bamboo perfect for this hoe. And I love that you can stand straight while using it! ( perfect for old knees and backs) Sure do appreciate your generosity! :)
After watching, I just had to make one of these hoes... It works beautifully for pre-emergent and small weeds in our fruit tree nursery stock. You can take out a weed right next to a small tree without damaging the bark on the tree. Very easy to make too! The next day I made a second one. Thanks for sharing the design!
@@EricBrennanOrganic planning to do one lik you made,busy with work,so will try to make this Sunday and will reply you how the tool is beneficial in my home garden
Hi Sir, Good morning, I msg you will reply you back once I make this diy tool, and Am extremely happy I made the tool n tried in my garden,it's working 👌 thankyou 🙏very much got an idea only after watching your vedio,you also cut my cost for purchasing this weed tool which I was planning to buy,am sure many would have benefited from this vedio, your simply great 👍 n I enjoyed 🙏 thankyou 😀 keep doing such recycling diy vedios
I made two today shorter then yours to cut down my cover crop of mustard its ready to turn in now ,worked really good on my patch ,,much better than what's on offer for big £££ in uk
UK earth is more compacted and clay like...it scrapes off the weeds tho.. but doesnt get the root, still did it quicker.. I dont mind doing it again.... it was so much easier! Thanks for the share..
Awesome! Building a mulch layer for the up and coming season and was wondering about walkway weed control. This is the answer. Planting cover and maintain weeds with the RECYCLE-HOE! We will crank these out for our crew, share with farmers, and annihilate weed. Thanks for cracking some eggs of knowledge all over our farm community. Do you recycle your mulch?
Now you've got me looking for steel banding. If you're looking for another use for your innertubes see if there is a bow maker around. Innertubes work great for gluing up a laminate bow.
Wow ,that is really good Ill make one tomorrow sick of the crap, stainless steel rubbish and plastic that is flooding our part of the world .well done.
Hi! My mother want you to know that she's plannning to build this amazing tool next week!! So, your tool designe will be happily used in an organic vegetable operation in Italy! Many Many thanks!
Nice work! Excellent video production as well. I will be making my own set in the near future. A great option for community gardens/non-profits on a budget. Also, a fun project for kids. P.S. my brother lives in Ukarumpa, PNG
You're welcome. Good question. I doubt that a wire would work well on its own because it would likely bend too quickly unless it was quite thick. A thick wire would not cut through the soil easily. Here's the commercially available version that I used before I developed the recycle strap hoe. www.johnnyseeds.com/tools-supplies/weed-control/hoes-cultivators/long-handled-wire-weeder-9374.html I've also seen some DIY wire weeder designs in the web, but I still prefer my recycle strap hoe.
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I'm trying this idea wantok. Great to know you grew up in Papua New Guinea 🇵🇬
Sounds good wantok. Hope it works well for you.
Wonderful! Absolutely brilliant invention! Thanks a lot for great example of creative mind!!! All the best wishes!!!
You're welcome. Thanks for the nice comment.
I used a 1/2" red plastic tomato stake from Lowes that was 76", and got the inner tube and strapping tape from a request I posted on Craigslist. I just finished making it, and IT WORKS! I have a small and delicate flower bed, which is hard to get to without damaging flowers. This tool is GREAT! I bent it with a narrower shape, and it made the weeds fear me! THANK YOU FOR THIS VIDEO!!!!
Glad you like it. You are very welcome.
Very good idia...some time a DIY simple tool is the best ...Thank you from Thai farm man...
You're welcome. Thanks for the nice comment. ขอบคุณสําหรับความคิดเห็นของคุณ ผมดีใจที่คุณชอบมัน ผมทํางานในประเทศไทยหลายปีทีแล้ว
your description of how the Hoe is constructed is nothing short of brilliant
Thanks Howard, I appreciate your comment.
I am a farmer in Korea. Thanking about many tools everyday. So so great idea for me. Thank you so much. God bless you.
You're welcome.
Brilliant! American practical genius at work ->
Thanks.
Thank you so much from western cape south africa best tool ive ever seen on youtube
You're very welcome. I'm glad you found it helpful. Thanks for sharing. Take care, Eric
... not enough emphasis on genius. GENIUS!
thanks,
This is a great idea and must be one of the best I've seen this year. It's very generous of you to share, you could have made a pile of money from this deceptively simple but very clever invention. You're probably too busy with the strawbs and veg :-)) Thanks again for your selflessness.
ya ya I agree with you.
thanks
💡 I agree 1001 %✔️ can't thank you enough for sharing your idea. Best wishes 👍
We used steel strapping as hoes 30 years ago in Ontario Canada on onion farms. We just made the loop smaller so you could get in between the onions. I have one in my tool shed.
Great to hear this. Thanks for sharing.
@@EricBrennanOrganic in Russia some people use steel wire this way. Wire is not sharp, but it works too.
Omg! Genius! Necessity is certainly the mother of the Inventions! Thanks you so much.
You're welcome!
Wife had me researching stirrup hoes this morning and we stumbled across this youtube video. You've now got me dumpster diving for scrap steel banding straps in preparation for making at least one of these. No rubber tubing however I have rolls and rolls of electrical tape and a couple of spare hickory wood handles which should serve me well. Thanks for the video and best case I'll have a free stirrup hoe and worse case just a few wasted hours putting this together.
Sounds great Steve. You're very welcome. Eric
Clever Clever Clever. Great Tutorial. Thank You for taking the time to make this video.
You're welcome Desmonde. Thanks for the nice comment.
Wow! Thank you for being so generous with your sharing. Brilliant use of waste stream materials! Thanks again!
You're very welcome Courtney. I'm glad you liked it. I'm a big fan of recycling.
Thank you Dr. Brennan. We need many more people like you.
You're welcome. Thanks for the kind words Kishor.
wow! A big thanks all the way from Nigeria
You are very welcome Conroy. It's great to see people in many parts of the world benefiting from this tool.
Thumps up........Wonderful Idea.....Your presentation unique. Thank you much for sharing the information with us. You are a true lover of farmers. I am from Kerala, India. I will show this video in the farmers club meetings.
Thanks. I appreciate your thoughtful comment. It is great to see this tool helping farmings in many countries. Take care, Eric
@@EricBrennanOrganic Three years ago I have shown your idea to mane Indian farmers especially in Kerala. Most of them collected scrap and made the hoe as you have narrated. Thanks a lot. Most of them found this very useful and easy. Thanks a lot.
Your demonstration can’t be more clear and informative. Thank you 🙏
You're welcome. I appreciate your comment.
I just made one....it's a great concept, and it works great on those new blooms of weed.
Great, glad to hear it.
You nailed it Eric. Many thanks for the excellent video demonstration.
Thanks
Thank you for sharing your wonderful idea. I love that it's made from recyclable materials, lightweight and so simple and very easy to use.blooming marvelous, thank you for your kindness in sharing and I can imagine every allotment holder using one.
You are very welcome.
I make these using PVC pipes for handles. They last forever! LOVE these!
thanks.
Low cost development. Excellent. Beneficial to lacking small farmers.
Thanks.
Great idea!! I told my husband I was going to buy a regular one at Lowe's and cut the handle to make it really short and you just gave me a great idea in how to make one. Thank you!!
Thanks. You're welcome. I'm glad this helped.
Thank you so much Dr. Brennan, I'll be sharing the video with poor farmers from Myanmar, with burmese subtitles.
This is great. I'm very glad to see it shared broadly and helping farmer in many parts of the world.
Very clever thinking, but so simple to make.
Thanks Peter. Take care, Eric
What a brilliant idea expertly presented - free can be better!
Hi Julian,
Thanks. I'm glad you liked it. Take care, Eric
Clever man. Just what i've been looking for. Going to make one. Thanks
Thanks.
Thanks from Barbados. Sharing it a round.
You're welcome.
such a very happy weeder! look forward to try out this great idea. thank you for the sharing.
Thank you Peter. I hope you find it helpful. You're welcome.
Awesome Tool! This is what I've been trying to invent and you went and done it for me. Thank you.
Thanks.
Simply Amazing !!!
Thanks a lot!
Thank you for sharing your ideas. I was looking for a hula hoe and think this will work even better and you can't beat FREE! Thanks again
You're welcome. Happy to help.
Great idea...stirrup hoe cost me so much...tqvm
I 've really enjoyed the video and found it very helpful. Thank you indeed.
You're welcome. Thanks for the comment.
I was going to spend thousand of dollars on one till i seen this video. You da man. Thank you
Thanks. I'm glad this saved you some money.
thaaaaaank you soooooooo much. I am from india. I definitely gonna do this one for my kitchen garden. I am searching for this.
You're welcome
Excellent Idea, so well done, Greetings and highly appreciate, regards from India, will do it
You are very welcome.
this is brilliant !!!!!!! thank you, so simple you are so practical farmer
Thanks. You're welcome.
Wow. I’m from South Africa gonna be moving to an organic essential oils farm. Will have a large lab our force so I’m building lots of these thanks for sharing
You're welcome
Thanks for sharing this. Making one asap.
You're welcome.
Like you need to list the benefits! God Bless You Dr Brennan, you could have made your fortune with this "invention", but you chose to share with the world for free! Again, God Bless You!
Thanks for your kind comment Andrew. I'm happy to share it.
Fantastic invention! I bought a Hula Hoe and have never been able to get it to work effectively. I'm going to make one of these and put the HH on eBay. Thanks!
thanks. You're welcome.
Excellent concept am thinking of cancelling my order which I have placed with Amazon , great .
Thanks.
That's genius level. Great job!
Thanks,
Awesome,my dad was an inventor ,he would love this.
thanks.
Thank you so much for this tutorial! Just happen to have a huge stand of bamboo perfect for this hoe. And I love that you can stand straight while using it! ( perfect for old knees and backs) Sure do appreciate your generosity! :)
Hi Jeanne, You're very welcome. Thanks for the nice comment. Glad you like it.
simple but brave. i like it. thank.
You're welcome!
Very very thanks .selute for you thoughts.
You're welcome.
Its very good 👍🔥, i like this idea 🤩🔥👍.
Thank you. I'm glad you like it. :)
After watching, I just had to make one of these hoes... It works beautifully for pre-emergent and small weeds in our fruit tree nursery stock. You can take out a weed right next to a small tree without damaging the bark on the tree. Very easy to make too! The next day I made a second one. Thanks for sharing the design!
You're welcome. Glad it helped.
Mil gracias Dr. Brennan. 👍🏿
You are welcome.
Brilliant and using recycled materials, my kind of hoe.tried many and they have fallen by the wayside. Thank you (organic veg grower in france0
Thanks Paul.
I throw this stuff out all the time . Not anymore haha . Cool idea .
Thanks. Glad you like it.
awesome. thank you so much for having shared this innovative idea . am going to use it definitely in my farm. thank you so much. thumbs up.
Great. I'm glad it will help on your farm.
Today I made this and it is working perfect with iron clips..
What are those iron clips? Can you give me details please. I need help
I was wondering the same thing
Super the way you turned recycled material in to great tool, very nice n thanks for sharing this information 🙏
Thanks. I'm glad you liked it. Take care.
@@EricBrennanOrganic planning to do one lik you made,busy with work,so will try to make this Sunday and will reply you how the tool is beneficial in my home garden
Hi Sir, Good morning, I msg you will reply you back once I make this diy tool, and Am extremely happy I made the tool n tried in my garden,it's working 👌 thankyou 🙏very much got an idea only after watching your vedio,you also cut my cost for purchasing this weed tool which I was planning to buy,am sure many would have benefited from this vedio, your simply great 👍 n I enjoyed 🙏 thankyou 😀 keep doing such recycling diy vedios
I made two today shorter then yours to cut down my cover crop of mustard its ready to turn in now ,worked really good on my patch ,,much better than what's on offer for big £££ in uk
John Allen 👍🙏😂😂㊗
Sounds good.
ತುಂಬಾ ಅದ್ಭುತವಾದ ಯೋಚನೆ ಮತ್ತು ಕಾರ್ಯನಿರ್ವಹಿಸು ತಕ್ಕಂತಹ ನಿಮ್ಮ ಕ್ರಿಯೆ . ನಿಮ್ಮ ಈ ಯೋಜನೆ ಮತ್ತು ಯೋಚನೆ ತುಂಬಾ ಯಶಸ್ವಿಯಾಗಿದೆ .
ಧನ್ಯವಾದಗಳು. ಇದು ನಿಮಗೆ ಸಹಾಯ ಮಾಡುತ್ತದೆ ಎಂದು ನಾನು ಭಾವಿಸುತ್ತೇನೆ.
great agriculture creativity man this is need of India
Thanks
You just made my day and I thank you ! Genius
You're welcome.
I like the way you think!!!! Awesome Sustainable Project...
Thanks. Keep up the good sustainability thinking :)
Thank you so much,now I can make one too, for my yard, around my garden beds n around the trees thank you good ideas.
You're welcome.
🌱 Thx. Very clever.
You’re welcome
watching from the Bahamas 🇧🇸🌴🇧🇸
Thanks
UK earth is more compacted and clay like...it scrapes off the weeds tho.. but doesnt get the root, still did it quicker.. I dont mind doing it again.... it was so much easier! Thanks for the share..
You're welcome.
You are so smart! Thank you for Upcycle and share this tool!
Thanks. You're welcome.
So nice to have a brain! Thanks! Great idea!
You're welcome.
its given me some more insight to making something a little heavier for big weeds thanks god bless.
You're welcome. I hope it helps. Take care, Eric
I used to make these when i was a teenager in Puerto Rico(70's). i'm 62 years old now.
Interesting. Thanks for sharing your experience.
I didn't use the inner tube, but I did the same thing last year! Ha! It worked really well.
Sound good Nathan
Awesome! Building a mulch layer for the up and coming season and was wondering about walkway weed control. This is the answer. Planting cover and maintain weeds with the RECYCLE-HOE! We will crank these out for our crew, share with farmers, and annihilate weed. Thanks for cracking some eggs of knowledge all over our farm community.
Do you recycle your mulch?
The mulch is hard to recycle in our area because of attached soil, but drip tape if often recycled.
Still brilliant and thanks so much for your excellent teaching!
Thank you. You're welcome.
Thank you for this DIY tutorial. I hope the metal straps are still being used since this video is a few years old. Can't wait to make one myself
You're welcome. The straps are still being used and should be available at hardware store garbage/dumpsters.
@@EricBrennanOrganic okay thanks
This is pretty cool. Not sure I can easily source the bits, but would def keep an eye out. Brilliant share!
Thanks. Glad you liked it.
Thanks from Italy!
You're welcome.
You sir, are a GENIUS!!
Thanks, I'm glad you like it.
Now you've got me looking for steel banding. If you're looking for another use for your innertubes see if there is a bow maker around. Innertubes work great for gluing up a laminate bow.
Sounds good.
Wow ,that is really good Ill make one tomorrow sick of the crap, stainless steel rubbish and plastic that is flooding our part of the world .well done.
Sounds good Johnie.
Amazing and simple invention!
Thanks.
Just brilliant!!
Thanks William. Glad you liked it.
very useful tool....love & regards from india... :)
Thanks.
Love your thoughts, and great diy tool. Effective and elegant.
Thanks.
Still wonderful! So glad I found it.
Thanks.
Thanks
it is an excellent idea. i liked your video. I also liked how you present the product. I congratulate you.
Greetings from Costa Rica.
Greetings. It't always good to hear that people in other countries like this. Thanks for the nice comment.
@@EricBrennanOrganic con gusto
VERY INFORMATIVE AND USEFUL
Thanks.
very good,, thanks a lot for sharing
Thanks. You are very welcome.
Hi! My mother want you to know that she's plannning to build this amazing tool next week!! So, your tool designe will be happily used in an organic vegetable operation in Italy! Many Many thanks!
You're welcome.
Great video. Perfect to watch at 1.5x speed. Saves yourself some time, just like that tool will!
Thanks for the comment. Good tip on the speed too. :)
Excellent idea! Thanks for sharing!
You're welcome.
Very innovative! Thanks for sharing!
Thanks. You're very welcome.
you are a genius who has solved the mystery of life
Thanks Bruce for the nice comment.
take care, Eric
this is great! i'm making one tomorrow!
thanks.
Thank you. best instructions aswell
You're welcome. Thanks
Nice work! Excellent video production as well. I will be making my own set in the near future. A great option for community gardens/non-profits on a budget. Also, a fun project for kids. P.S. my brother lives in Ukarumpa, PNG
Thanks. Good to make the PNG connection.
Τhanks. What would you think of using a wire?
You're welcome. Good question. I doubt that a wire would work well on its own because it would likely bend too quickly unless it was quite thick. A thick wire would not cut through the soil easily. Here's the commercially available version that I used before I developed the recycle strap hoe. www.johnnyseeds.com/tools-supplies/weed-control/hoes-cultivators/long-handled-wire-weeder-9374.html I've also seen some DIY wire weeder designs in the web, but I still prefer my recycle strap hoe.
What is the “tubbing”? ( what material? , what is you suggesting?) please help me.
The tubing material is described at 3:32 minutes.
reminds me a lot of my dad. retired extension guy. y'all would talk for many, many hours. lol
You make me smile. thanks. sounds like your dad's a good guy.
Very informative and pleasant video. Thumbs up.....!!!!!!
Thanks Larry
Excellent idea!
Thanks.