so what do you say we spend a little time in the garden today all right all right all right
so on a previous video i think it was when we were harvesting our sweet potatoes
and i was showing my storage rack where i keep all my winter squash sweet potatoes someone noticed
my wheel hoe arsenal there beside my storage rack and asked to do a video showing all the different
wheel hoe setups i have and so i thought this would be a fun opportunity to do you know just
a neat little video showing you all the different wheel hoes i use and all the different setups i
kind of just keep configured permanently so i can just grab one and go so i've got all my wheel hoes
here set up on a table so i can show you the setups for each one but before we do this just
keep in mind that this is not necessarily realistic for every garden or homestead
the reason i have so many is for pretty much this channel doing these videos when i'm out here
shooting these videos i don't want to have to take the time to change attachments or change setups
so i have all these different setups six different wheel hoes here so i can just grab one and go and
it makes things a lot quicker when i'm out here shooting these videos especially on those hot days
when it's just suffocating out here and you want to try to get things done as quick as possible
so is having six wheel hoes realistic well maybe if you got a small scale market farm but not for
the average you know everyday homesteader now what we do find is a lot of people after they
get one wheel hoe they'll find one or two setups that they would really like to just dedicate to
and they'll purchase another one and a lot of people have two wheel hoes use one for a
specific purpose use another for specific purpose so they don't have to change out attachments all
the time now these attachments do not take long at all to change you know 9 16 wrench you can usually
switch them out in five minutes or so but it is nice just to have a setup you use all the time so
you can just grab it and go so for the six wheel hoes i have here i have two single wheel hose
one high arch wheel hoe and three double wheel hoes now some of these attachments can be used on
all three of our models the single the double or the high arch but some of the attachments i
use like the drip tape layer can only be used on the double wheel hoe so the reason i have certain
attachments on a single or double or a heart has to do with just how i like to use them and i'll
tell you more about that as we look at each one now keep in mind as i show you these i didn't
polish them up or anything for this video they're dirty because we use them all the time and this
is just how they look when we grab them and go sometimes if this dirt gets too caked up on here
i'll take a piece of champ pair of channel locks or something other than kind of knock the dirt off
but this is kind of how they look here so this first set up here is probably the simplest one
this is what you get if you just order a single wheel hoe we've got single wheel here and we've
got our three cultivator teeth right here i like to put that middle tooth there in
the front seems like it makes the material or the soil pass through those teeth a little bit
better and this is one of my main go-to weeding or cultivating setups this is the one i like to use
if we get a pretty hard rain and then right before that soil crust over as soon as i can
get out there in the garden i like to go in there with this guy kind of you know break up that soil
so it doesn't crust over keep everything nice and friable and keep any new weeds from germinating
i like this setup i like to use the teeth on the single wheel hoe just because it gives me a little
more maneuverability a lot of times i might be using this close to a row or a trellis and kind
of tilting it to the side either way depending on how close i'm getting to a row of plants and
i just have a little more maneuverability here with the single than i would with a double so
that's why i like the three teeth on the double and i probably use this at least once a week
on all my plots just a good preventative measure for weeding and then for wheel hoe number two
here we've got another single wheel hoe this is the yeah i got one and two single wheel hose so
this is the other one and on this one i have our 12 inch oscillating hoe blade or attachment this
thing kind of rocks back and forth so you can cut in both directions it's sharp on both sides
we have this in a six inch and eight inch version i like the 12 inch just because i can cover more
ground with it i like this on the single wheel hoe for the same reason i like the teeth on the single
wheel hoe gives me a little more maneuverability working around plants and in between rows there
and this is the one i alternate with the cultivator teeth so i'll use the cultivator teeth
one time for kind of weed and cultivate and then i'll use this guy another time i like to use this
one when it's the soil is dry i don't like to use it when it's a little bit wet because sometimes
it kind of just pulls up the soil and sheets as opposed to giving me a nice little cultivation
there but this is the one we're going to use if we let our weeds get out of control
and we end up with some pretty thick weeds out there we're going to use this guy to come in
cut those weeds and kind of tear that ground up so those weeds don't come back so this one i
use about as frequent as i do with the cultivator teeth great for general cultivation but also good
for getting those big weeds if you do slip up and let your weed pressure get behind you a little bit
and now on to some of our double wheel hoes and we got one howard wheeler to talk about so i've
got a double wheel hoe here and i've got a lot of bricks holding this down because this particular
setup doesn't stand up on its own well at all but we got our plow blades here we got our left
and our right plow blade and we've got them in the furrowing position so they come to a point
right here like that and make a little trench in the soil and this is a good setup to just always
have you know put together because we're using this all the time especially when we're laying
drip tape we're always going to make a furrow and then we'll come in and put that drip tape down in
that furrow and bury it if we're planting potatoes we're going to use this guy also for reusing our
drip tape we're going to use it to make a furrow so anytime we're making a planting furrow we're
going to be using this guy and since i put almost everything on drip this setup here gets used a lot
that's why we have it you know permanently set up here so we can just grab it make a furrow
and go and on to numero 4 0 here we've got our how arch wheel this is the only high arch i have
in my arsenal and here we have the plow blades just like like we have it on that double wheel
how i showed you just a second ago but here we have them in the healing position and this is
it the high arch wheel can do a lot of things but there's one thing that it just does phenomenal
is being able to heal plants because you got this tall clearance right here this nice 15
inch clearance you can change the distance between those plows via here or the distance between these
tool bars or wheels lots of different options here as far as how wide of a heel you want to throw
you know if we're doing potatoes we put these things out wide if we're doing corn we'll put
them in a little closer and do a little bit of a tighter heel so i use this for healing everything
corn potatoes anything i want to throw soil to and stabilize i'm also using this a lot when
we reuse drip tape so the drip tape layer when we're putting down drip tape for the first time
it covers it for us but when we're reusing it we put it down and we use this guy right here
to come over the top of it and bury it so like i said the high arch can do a lot of things
but my favorite thing to use it for is healing i think it works awesome for that and that's
why we have our healing set up on a high arch as opposed to a double wheel hoe we could put this on
a double wheel hoe we just wouldn't have as tall a clearance our clearance would be about right
here as opposed to weight up here so this is our lone high arch and this is pretty much all
i use it for even though it could be used for a lot of other things and a wheel hoe number
five here we have our drip tape layer attachment installed now this is probably the most complex
of all of our wheel hoe attachments and the one that takes the longest to set up you're looking
at probably 10 minutes or so on this versus less than five on hooking those others up so that's why
i think it's good to just have this permanently set up i don't ever take it off this wheel hoe
that's all this wheel hoe here has ever done is laid drip tape it's never done anything else our
drip tape roll here is empty i need to put a new roll on there you can kind of see how that works
you've got a bracket here that holds the drip tape roll up front of the wheel there you've got
a little sleeve that feeds it down to this roller wheel here it applies the drip tape along that
trench that you create and these plow blades here cover up that drip tape nice and tidy there so
if you're doing a lot of laying drip tape it's not a bad idea at all to have a dedicated unit just
for this because like i said this one does take a little longer to switch in and out but a lot
of people will make their trenches make all their furrows first and then switch it over to this and
then lay all the drip tape you do it however you like i just like having a dedicated set up for it
here and i don't know if i mentioned this earlier but this setup only works on the double wheel hoe
so that's why we have it on here can't use this on the high arch or the single wheel hoe
because the way or where this drip tape roll sits right here and then the last one we have
right here this double wheel hoe right here is one that i'm a little more flexible with
all those others stay in those configurations all the time they never get changed this one
here is the one where i do swap out attachments here and there in fact i usually have our sweeps
set up on here as just another go-to weeding attachment cultivating attachment however if
you've been watching my videos about our no-till garden plot you know that this is how or what
we use to put our transplants in so we use this right here which is our dibble wheel attachment
and we use these to kind of mark the locations of where we're going to put our transplants in
the ground makes a nice little hole or dibble in the soil and you can stick your transplant plug
right in it don't have to do a whole lot of digging this thing if your soil is nice and firm
digs the perfect size hole for you now we've just got one dibble wheel on here right now
and we've got the spacing for every other hole we could put uh another set of dibbles on here or one
between each of these existing ones if we wanted to if we wanted to make holes every four inches
or so we could also put two more dibble wheels on here if we wanted to mark three rows at a
time or we could put two to do two rows at a time however you want to lots of different options here
so the reason i have this set up uh is just because that no-till plot and this is what
we had to use to kind of mark our transplanting holes like i said usually the sweeps are on here
and this setup here is really easy to take on and off right here in the front
and i usually get my dibbles all set up like i want them and then attach this bracket
to the wheel hoe i don't know how much longer i'll leave this on there we might need it again in that
no-till plot soon we'll just have to see i do like having the sweeps on here as a good grab and go so
i might take this off pretty soon put my sweeps back on here because i'll use those a lot more
frequently than i'll use this right here just for planting in that no-till plot all right so that's
my wheel hoe arsenal and how i have everything set up there is mainly a function of just the way we
garden the way we grow things around here and depending on how you garden how much garden you
have how you grow things if you're using drip tape or not your setups could be completely different a
lot of people just have one small plot one wheel hoe is plenty enough you have a lot of plots like
i have may need a few just to save you on some time down the road so if you've got a wheel hoe
or two or three let me know in the comments below what your favorite setups are do you have some
setups you just leave there all the time or maybe you're always kind of switching out between two or
three setups tell me how you like to keep your wheel hose set up so you can keep those gardens
nice and clean and if you don't have a wheel hoe you probably need to head on over to hosstools.com
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