Gardening, Woodworking, Timber Frames & Concrete
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Cast your own Concrete Countertop for a Potting Bench with a Galvanized Corrugated Metal Roof.
Make a Garden Potting Bench with a Cast Concrete Countertop and Galvanized Corrugated Metal Roof. Made from rough milled western red cedar and douglas fir.
Install an off grid rainwater harvesting tank to collect water for our garden drip irrigation system.
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Make Concrete Garden Boxes! Build the forms and precast your own 36″ reinforced concrete panels that lock together to make long lasting and durable concrete garden boxes.
DIY Poured Concrete Raised Garden Beds. Make these simple wooden forms and cast your own concrete garden boxes. In this part of the series I make my first attempt…
Make 3 lightweight concrete formulas for long-lasting rot-proof garden boxes. Blend of Vermiculite, Aircrete, and Lava Rock.
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Time to get the wood stove ready for winter. We have a high-efficiency wood stove and need to sweep the chimney of creosote and clean the ash buildup inside…
For my Timber Frame Style Woodshed project and Garden Pavilion Build, I used this jigsaw to cut curved profiles in the ends of 6″ x 6″ beams and in…
A reciprocating saw can be used for branch trimming & pruning. Battery powered & fitted with a pruning blade, it performs well at this task.
