Using metal wire on brush cutter
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Comments (20)aesanders, have you ever actually had Himalayan blackberries on your property? During peak growth season, they can grow six inches per day. You go on a two week vacation, and when you come back, you've got blackberries with 1/2 inch diameter trunks where you used to have bare dirt. Last year, we had one area cleaned out, and I ignored it. I thought it was free of blackberreies, but this spring I went in there and holy camole - a blackberry canopy arched over my head - they had completely encircled a hedge of rosebushes! A string cannot deal with them. Somehow or another, you must have a device that's capable of a blade. My neighbor has a string trimmer with brush cutter attachment and says it's about three minutes from string to blade or blade to string - doesn't sound too bad, really. I figure I'll set it up with string, and do everything that can use a string one weekend, then set up with blade the next weekend, and hopefully just do weekly touch-up during growing season with the blade. Maybe you're right that for initial clearing, I need something bigger - I'll find out soon enough. But I am very certain that a string will be inadequate for routine maintenance. I can't imagine keeping after these blackberries with just a string...a blade is going to be required. Himalayan blackberries are a non-indigenous invasive species that, so far, seems to be concentrating on the Pacific Northwest...have never heard of them on the eastern seaboard. I used to live in Georgia, and they are much more invasive than, for instance, Kudzu. Here is a link that might be useful: Description of Himalayan Blackberries...See MoreNeed Help w/Painting Rural Metal Building
Comments (2)Well, planning a paint job 500 miles away with a ten day window has been tricky. I've narrowed my quandary down. (Will skip the 'rust conversion coating' since no one local I've talked to has a clue what that is nor carries it in stock. Did grab some wire grinder attachments for my drill, that should help with tackling the rust by hand. ;) Will have access to what looks to be a couple good products for exterior metal. Coronado's Coro-Bond or BM's Iron Clad. If anyone has experience with either product, I'd be interested in hearing about it. The only hesitation I have with the BM product is that it's a primer and topcoat in one product. Would definitely be a time saver, and am not sure exactly why it makes me uneasy, but it does. ;) Also it's oil-based, so going with white I'd be faced with yellowing. :/ So I might use the Coro-Bond primer and get a good latex top coat....See MoreWire & Copper Art - Adornments, Embellishments and Tools
Comments (0)Image by: Yukon_Gold Yukon_Gold's Wire Art Wire & Copper Art - Adornments, Embellishments and Tools Adornments and Embellishments A variety of objects can be used to decorate your wire art piece such as: * Large or small marbles * Prisms/Crystals (from chandeliers) * Bells, whistles, and baubles * Buttons * Beads * Stones * Charms * Stained glass pieces and/or Beach glass * Broken or unwanted jewelry that still sparkles * Junk from your junk drawer * Doodads from your toolbox * Plastic marbles off the elastic hair tiebacks * Seashells from your last vacation * Suitcase padlocks that lost the key * Childrens metal toy jacks Use what you have and items that will withstand the weather for a time .... It's your art - design it however you'd like and make it personal! What tools to use * Wire cutters, light, medium and heavy duty * Pliers: needle nose, round nosed, and "everyday" (heavy wire cutters come as plier/cutter combo) * Dowels of various sizes -- cheap chopsticks, broom handles, wooden closet bar (check store for scrap ends of closet poles cut for other customers) * Rubber/latex gloves for better grip and less smelly, less green hands The diameter of the rod you use will determine the tightness of the spiral you are after. You can twist the wire by hand but it may help to have a pair of pliers handy. Notes from our members: Yukon_Gold tell us: I bought basket of larger seashells at dollar store for a buck, got other jewelry odds & ends, shiny buttons, brass jingle bells all for a donation at a Humane Society yard sale. The wooden heart was lettered "Bless This Home" by a child's hand, and I loved it. I used a combination of wooden spoon handle, old thread spool, pliers to make the bends in the wire ...... Not a lot of flourish, but I look at this art as having items of interest and something unusual to look at out in the garden areas. The fish copper art could go near a pool or hot tub. Mush adds this about her embellishments: The white thing is a little shell on top of a heart-shaped bead. The glass is beach glass that I have collected on trips to Barbados. And, YES, I am hooked! sonicsink says: I used wire that I got at the hardware store, marbles from the dollar store and crystals from an old chandelier that my parents were throwing out last year. And in another one - a super jumbo marble, one of many my dog found in a field about 5 years ago..even my dog is a junker LOL! ~~~ TIP: To get nice even 3D coils, use wooden dowels: chopsticks, 1/4", 1/2", 3/4" dowels, broomsticks and wooden closet bars. Wrap the wire close but not tightly around the dowel a few turns in one direction, then do a kind of twist to add a kink before continuing with a spiral in the opposite direction; this makes it much more visually interesting, good for a vine-like effect. Don't wrap the wire too tightly around the dowel or you might not get the wire off of the dowel. Once you've removed a 3D wire coil from a dowel, you can tighten or loosen it holding one or both ends of the wire and twisting your hand/hands. Wrap a couple turns of wire around a dowel that's about the diameter of a marble to make a starter socket for the marble; it's easier than trying to wrap the marble free-hand....See MoreWire Brush for Grill Cleaning DANGER – Who knew???
Comments (18)Do not buy from the paint dept. They always break down and are not at all good for anything food. Big box stores for a commercial painter use very low end suppliers...they fall apart so easily and are not at all food safe. Even most of the cheap brushes put together with cheap glues fall apart slowly and you will have brush hairs in your food. Metals in your food. Professional painters/contractors do not use big box stores. Best to just use the high heat from your grill to burn off the carbon build-up. Prepped properly you will not have food stuck all over your grill. If it happens, (like me and my fails so often)... take the grill/grate part out and clean it properly when it is cool. Scrub it any way you want, but rinse it well and pay attention....See Moredavidandkasie
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