Most Useful Tools

[GaryD]

Hi,

What are the tools or equipment that you find invaluable in your integrated backyard food production endeavours?

I'll start the list with:

• Zip ties
• Qubelok light fabrication system
• Welded mesh
• Mesh Clips and Pliers
• Plywood
• Holesaws
• Micro-irrigation fittings and re-inforced flexible hose
• Star pickets......star picket driver and lifter
• Battery-operated reversible drill
• 2mm Tie Wire

Gary

[Alwyn]

Also the following will be helpfull: solid shovel, Spirit level, String line and string line level, Tek screws and bits, angle grinder, 8m tape measure, heavy guage wire.
Al

[fishfood]

I could not do without my shovel

[Jonathan Dyer]

You have missed out the most important: Thread Tape, PVC Glue

[GaryD]

Keep 'em coming.

[Dufflight]

For the hardware shop to be still open.

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Hammer

[bushboy]

apart from the obvious secateurs,long handled pruners,fork etc
the best thing I have purchased (for my wife as a xmas present!) has been a garden trolley
- this has been superb for moving bags of cement,blocks,plants etc - way more useful
than a wheelbarrow as it is more stable and closer to the ground for loading up.
I recommend them to all and sundry

[anniefish]

Well I'd have to say being on this forum, the advise from one and all and access to people who have 'been there and done that' is invaluable.

[Hamish]

Well I'd have to say being on this forum, the advise from one and all and access to people who have 'been there and done that' is invaluable.

Id second that - this forum has helped me more than any tool!

On a hardware note my $9 crimpers I use to crush those great stainless hose clamps Murray got me on to. So much better than using those screw type hose clamps.

[Dufflight]

Useful tools. How about disappearing tools. Every time I need a rivet gun I can't find the last one I bought. (5 to date) And tape measures I now get by the box so I don't have to go looking for one. People borrow them and I sit them in a safe place.