Poor man's die grinder

Joe Dupre'

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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.
 

River's Edge

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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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