From Waste To Wonder - Scoops

 There is something incredibly satisfying, even after 20 plus years of being a carpenter, of taking a pile of wood and turning it into something. 

Of course when you make things every day you end up with a lot of offcuts. I don't like waste, it hurts my pocket and it hurts the environment. There's a lot of energy gone into making all these materials that I make my income from. 

So I have a habit of saving up all the regular sized offcuts and putting them to one side. This works well with my potting trays that produce a strip of ply waste and sometimes the 9x1 redwood boards are split and unusable for them. 

I save up all these bits and when I have enough I make a batch of my wooden scoops. I try to make a batch of 30 plus when I do, and it's a fair bit of work. But what I end up with is a high labour cost product but with material costs that are very small. 

I treat myself a bit like a factory when building things like this, tackling each process as a step and bringing all the scoops along at the same time. I tend to listen to a goo book while I'm doing it! 

These scoops I sell separately, but also they are a great add on for anyone buying a potting tray (especially as it saves the customer postage). 

Being oiled in the other container

I have a few of these scoops in use, great for chicken feed or for amendments in the garden, they also work well for compost and potting up. 

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