🛠 Restoration of Garden Tools With Recycled Materials ♻️

Bzzz!
Spring is the good time to get your garden tools in order!
It would be more correct to do this in the winter, before the season of active use, but it's never too late.

At a flea market, I once bought old villas, and finally decided to buy a new holder for them.

I took two wooden holders to immediately replace on a rake. But about the rakes a little later...

Since the weather was warm, I decided to adapt the stump left over from the heating season as a workbench

Trying on

Using an axe, I chamfered the fork holder to better fit the shape of the fork mount.

there was little space left in width, but with the beveled part of the handle we firmly rested against the protrusion on the forks.

After the heating season, I had a lot of crooked nails, removed from the stove along with the ashes, after burning firewood with nails. I use the ash as a fertilizer, so the metal always has to be sieved from there. Nails come across pretty good.
Sometimes I take the time and sit down to align them for reuse.

It's not that I can't afford to buy new nails, but these nails will come in handy too.

After a long stay in the furnace, the metal loses its elasticity, therefore it is very difficult to completely drive such nails into a hardwood handle.

In a place where the rust has eaten the metal especially hard, the nail may break off, but in my case it does not matter,but I used a couple for strength)))

Now about the rake.
I got them with the house when we moved in here, one tooth was missing from the rake and another one was about to fall off soon.
I removed the old holder from them so that it would be more convenient to align them and take them to the welder for repair.
A thick nail from the oven acted as the missing pin.

The rake sits perfectly on the new holder

Aligning the next nail

At the beginning, up to half the thickness of the handle, the nail enters perfectly

...But then the weakened metal of the nail does not withstand the force of blows and bends into a squiggle

Since I still have an old holder, I bought a new nozzle for it.
I know a local company that continues to produce various plastic household items from recycled materials during the war. Basins, troughs, barrels, buckets, children's sleds, bathtubs ... more than 75% are made from recycled plastic. So I chose the nozzle for the rake from this company.

I just needed a light rake to make hay for the winter! This is my first experience of keeping a cow, so not knowing exactly how much hay I will need, I am going to stock up on it for future use.

A heap of healthy spring spikelets will serve as nutritious food for the first family's favorite cow throughout the next winter.

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