Topband: burying radials

[Roy Morgan]

At 02:07 PM 8/8/2006, Ford Peterson wrote:
...fabricate a small wooden block in a wedge-like shape. ...  It's a bunch 
of work on hands and knees.

Ford,

It seems to me that you could arrange a pole or handle of some sort on that 
block to let you push it through the grass while standing up.

At last weekend's hamfest, I could have bought what seemed to be a home 
made plow. It had two handles a bit like a baby strollef, two wheels and 
one blade that went down into the dirt behind the wheels.  I've seen 
similar things uses as a weeder/tiller.  See this ebay item for a good idea 
of what I'm talking about.

<http://cgi.ebay.com/1940s-VICTORY-GARDEN-HAND-PLOW-TILLER-Columbus-Ohio_W0QQitemZ170010699331QQcmdZViewItem>

Notice that the handle bar in this one is quite close to directly over the 
tiller teeth. This means that if you have to lean on the thing, the force 
will go pretty directly to the teeth.  If you remove all but one tooth and 
add a tube  to feed the wire out behind the tooth, it seems to me that the 
whole thing would work well.  The roll of wire could ride near the handles 
and add weight to it.

Roy

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