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This video showcases a homemade three-prong tree-branch soil-turning tool. The creator repurposes natural tree branches to make a side-by-side three-toothed rake for tilling the soil, featuring a simple structure and ingenious design.
The tool uses three neat tree branches as the handle and main frame, forming an aligned three-toothed rake head suitable for soil turning. The branches are tightly bound together with ropes as a whole, with straps fastened around the user’s neck to generate pulling force for operation.
During use, one man supports and lifts the tool with his neck, pulling the rake forward to loosen and turn over the soil. Another man holds a sledgehammer to fix and stabilize the tool and prevent deviation. Relying purely on human pulling force without mechanical power, the tool is entirely made of natural wood materials.
This homemade tool is creative, easy to make and cost-free, ideal for small-scale land reclamation. However, it has poor overall stability. It is labor-intensive to operate manually with slow working speed and uneven soil turning effect. It is low in practicality and efficiency, and unsuitable for large-area and regular farmland tillage.