Replacing handles and other tips.

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Originally Posted by bower

My friend made a rolling dibbler for the farm similar to this one:
http://www.communityagadvisors.com/make-multi-dibbler/

We used it to roughly mark out the beds for garlic but you still need a hand dibbler to get the right depth. It is just a guide, really, so the spacing is even on a long row.

I saw a rolling one on line for sale that was on a big wheel.
You could remove the ones you wanted and space them out accordingly.
Upon closer inspection it looks like they cut the wheel out of OSB or some other plywood.
AND they want $199.99 for it.

In my humble opinion if you were to make a rolling one the spikes need to be set at an angle so when they come out of the soil the dont tear it up.
The other option is to make them shorter and the angle on the spike be steeper and intersecting with the wheel.
This angle would be determined by the radius of the wheel me thinks.
This is how gears are made.

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