Poor man's die grinder

[Joe Dupre']

Or maybe just a lazy man's way of doing it. Since I moved my big boxwood from sitting on the ground to up on a 2 foot high bench, the broken snag just kept catching my eye. Out come the concave cutters an I nibbled away at it. It needed just a bit more smoothing and I was too lazy to string out the extension cord and plug in the die grinder for 1 minute's work. This is what I came up with.





It's one of the 5 rotory rasps I got from Harbor Freight for $5.00. It made short work of the little bit of smoothing I had to do. It actually worked VERY well. For someone with smaller trees, a set of these rasps would come in very handy just clamped in a set of grip pliers.

 

[Joe Dupre']

This is what the broken snag looked like before.

 

[River's Edge]

Or maybe just a lazy man's way of doing it. Since I moved my big boxwood from sitting on the ground to up on a 2 foot high bench, the broken snag just kept catching my eye. Out come the concave cutters an I nibbled away at it. It needed just a bit more smoothing and I was too lazy to string out the extension cord and plug in the die grinder for 1 minute's work. This is what I came up with.


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It's one of the 5 rotory rasps I got from Harbor Freight for $5.00. It made short work of the little bit of smoothing I had to do. It actually worked VERY well. For someone with smaller trees, a set of these rasps would come in very handy just clamped in a set of grip pliers.

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