Hey there, I'm going to show you real quickly how to make a tomato sager, at least how I
do it, by myself, no problem. Here's my coil of wires. If you have a hill, I kind of like it to go downhill
I don't have to deal with rolling it, and it's a lot easier going downhill
Take your wires, step on it. I use a little gas dam full of gases to get control of the wire
I think it's really important to always stay in control of the wire
Safety gloves are also really important in this little project. What I'm going to do is snip off the bottom row
You might want to get our close-up of this, the bottom row here
I mean, can you hear me now? I snip off the bottom row, and this is what I mean by controlling the wire
That can pop up and hurt you. That's the crap, which I don't want to hit with the mower
Now, I'm welding these slightly under two feet when they're done, so I measure five
feet off, and I take measure, and I come in here, and I cut it just in front of that bar
This gives me the little prongs at the end to make a loop in
I'm going to get some more wire for the foot. By the way, I'm using the really good assistant bolt cutter
It's priced $4.00 at AutoCenter. I'm going to cut some of the wire for the foot
Out of the way. Now, I have a little nut driver here
It's got a nice little hole that goes down about an inch
Using the nut driver, place it on the wire and bend it
Bend it over. Take the nice little hook. That's how I'll make the loop
Come all the way down. It's actually quite easy to do
Sometimes I have to be working in a shade. All right
That's done. It's out of the way. Here comes the cage. I come down here, and I just do it all at once
Okay. Get the top one in. Now, sometimes I'll come through here with pale pliers
and I'll just tighten all these down, bend them all down. It's kind of like I want this one on this side
I'll bend them all down, but today I'm not closing this loop all the way
Simple how you want it. But if I don't close the loop, I can come through here with some nylon ties
and just tighten them down. You don't close the loop if you want to be able to open this at the end of the year flat
lay it under a deck or something. Otherwise, it's a pretty fairly bulky item to store
So these can be laid flat at the end of the season and put just about anywhere
anywhere you have a little place to hide them. Flip it over, and I just like to put a little pressure on it to make it round
It's not quite round right now. And the cage. Okay