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Posted by cavelamb himself on June 18, 2008, 5:01 pm
Please log in for more thread options Jim Elbrecht wrote:
> bob_1fs@yahoo.com wrote:
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>>I need tomato cages for the garden. I have tried the wimpy wire
>>baskets at
>>the local farm store and they get bent up, fall over and are a waste
>>of
>>money. I did find some nice heavy duty ones in the local Amish
>>community
>>but they are $18.00 each!
>
> -snip-
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>>The 4 in 1 bucket made a fine press brake! I welded them together and
>>now
>>have manly tomato cages.
>>
>>http://i180.photobucket.com/albums/x161/rleonard1/Tomato%20cages/IMG_1095.jpg
>>http://i180.photobucket.com/albums/x161/rleonard1/Tomato%20cages/IMG_1094.jpg
>>http://i180.photobucket.com/albums/x161/rleonard1/Tomato%20cages/IMG_1093.jpg
>>
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> I didn't have a bucket or the hog panels, so I had to make do with the
> 5' high concrete re-wire with 6" mesh.
>
> Jim
I want a break like that!
Portable - self propelled even!
Richard
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John Wayne
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>baskets at
>the local farm store and they get bent up, fall over and are a waste
>of
>money. I did find some nice heavy duty ones in the local Amish
>community
>but they are $18.00 each!
>
>I tried some hog panels one year but that was a mess too because you
>could
>not weed around them and it just did not work out.
>
>So I have these hog panels and if I could bend them in a circle and
>weld
>them, they would be nice and sturdy but how to bend them. They are
>tough.
>Thinking about this, sitting in the shop last night, I spotted the
>backhoe.....
>
>The 4 in 1 bucket made a fine press brake! I welded them together and
>now
>have manly tomato cages.
>
>http://i180.photobucket.com/albums/x161/rleonard1/Tomato%20cages/IMG_1095.jpg
>http://i180.photobucket.com/albums/x161/rleonard1/Tomato%20cages/IMG_1094.jpg
>http://i180.photobucket.com/albums/x161/rleonard1/Tomato%20cages/IMG_1093.jpg
>
>
>Bob