Work on a summer cottage is much more convenient and enjoyable with high-quality garden tools. Just find it on sale is quite problematic, and such a tool is worth a lot of money.
Therefore, most often you have to do with Chinese consumer goods, the quality of which leaves much to be desired.
However, in this review, the author offers an alternative option - to do with your own hands the so-called small "repair kit" of a summer resident, consisting of three tools: a cultivator, a shovel and a glanders.
For the manufacture of tools used metal scraps, which can be easily found in the garage, in the country and the home workshop. As handles for the tool, the author decided to use ready-made handles from electric drills and angle grinders.
The main stages of work
To make a shovel for summer cottages, the author uses a piece of metal gutter of the gutter system with a thickness of 1.8 mm. You can also find just a piece of sheet metal and make a spatula from it.
Additionally, a bolt with an M8 nut is required. Using a grinder, you just need to sharpen the edge of the workpiece, like a regular shovel, after which a bolt with a thread is welded onto which you need to wind the handle.
For the manufacture of the cultivator, the author took a piece of a round steel bar, the diameter of which is 8 mm. It will need to be cut into two parts, one of which the author bends in the form of a bracket, the other - in the form of the letter "G".
Then both pieces must be welded together. On the remaining "shank", the master cuts the thread so that the handle can be wound.
At the last stage, the author makes glanders. The tool itself consists of two main parts. The first part is a metal plate cut in the shape of a trapezoid.
The second part is a piece of steel strip, which must first be bent with the letter "G". We weld them together.
For details on how to make a small "repair kit" of a summer resident, consisting of three tools, see this video.
