How to make a universal bench for a garden with your own hands

Periodic garden work is an obligatory part of the working day of the owners of summer cottages and household plots. But keeping the planting pleasing to the eye clean and tidy is a pretty hard, tedious job. From a long stay in a bent position, it hurts the lower back, legs hurt. And kneeling on the ground, which is far from always smooth and dry, is unpleasant. In this case, a universal bench for the garden will be an excellent assistant - making a convenient “changeling” with your own hands, which will facilitate the weeding, loosening and planting processes, is quite simple. Such products are very popular among gardeners, because with a minimum of labor and financial costs, they make it easier to care for the land, while ensuring a comfortable back position.

Design advantages

The device of such a bench is quite simple. The two supports on the sides are solid, steady legs that will not fall through even into damp or loose ground. And the inverted bench turns into a convenient soft stand under the knees or a palm rest for working in the garden.

The product, designed to perform numerous manipulations with the earth in the country or in the garden, is surprisingly multi-functional. On it you can:

• sit and relax in between digging beds;
• to perform work accessible from a sitting position, comfortably sitting on a soft seat, reducing the load on the legs and back;
• turning over, kneel on it, if painstaking work requires you to bend over the garden;
• firmly rest your hands on the high side racks, then it will be immeasurably easier to rise from your knees if your legs are numb.

A do-it-yourself garden bench changeling will become a reliable assistant in performing many actions. With its help, any work in the garden is greatly simplified, including:

• cleaning the bark of trees, glossing over cracks, whitewashing trunks and lower skeletal branches;
• weeding the beds, diving seedlings, planting the soil, loosening, pruning strawberry mustache;
• gentrification of the territory, painting of borders, low picket fence, flower care in the flower bed;
• picking berries from bushes, sanitary pruning of low bushes, garter of cucumbers, other climbing plants, pinching.

Simplicity of execution and wide scope of use determine the ever-growing popularity of a highchair for working in the garden. Bench-changer makes it much easier to carry out daily care of plants and territory.

Product Dimensions

Having decided to make a bench with your own hands, you need to decide which dimensions are needed. Standard, without individual changes, a bench for a summer residence has the following dimensions:

• length - 60 cm;
• width - 30 cm;
• the height of the legs is 50 cm.

By creating a garden bench-changeling with your own hands, you can approach the process creatively, changing the standard sizes as individual needs. For example, to make the legs taller if the owner is tall and uncomfortable sitting on a low stool. You can also extend or expand the seat, according to the body of the one who will use the product, or for greater convenience. If the structure is assembled with your own hands from hollow tubes, then the main weight of the bench for working on the beds falls on the seat. In this case, it is quite possible to increase its size without significant weighting. Even if you add another 30 cm to the standard dimensions, the weight will not change much. If the garden highchair is made of wood or chipboard, any significant increase in size can affect the total weight of the structure, which will make it uncomfortable to carry, too cumbersome.

When determining the dimensions of a structure for making with their own hands, gardeners should consider what material it will be made of.

Materials and Tools

Without a doubt, every summer resident, home craftsman or just a zealous owner will have stock of trimmed boards, thick plywood or the remains of polypropylene pipes. It is quite easy to find raw materials from which you can make a garden bench for weeding, in the proportions that are needed, quite easily. Examples of materials that gardeners can use to make a bench with their own hands, the features of their influence on the total weight of the product, the pros and cons are presented in the table.

Material	pros	Minuses	Weight
Wooden boards	Available, durable, with proper care will last a long time	The tree is afraid of dampness and moisture, so there is a risk of swelling and rotting if used and stored incorrectly	Depends on the type of wood and its degree of dryness. Well-dried pine or linden boards are light, wood is quite soft
Chipboard, plywood	No special skills required, the simplest tool needed	Materials very quickly gain moisture, swell. Plywood begins to delaminate, and chipboard begins to crumble. Less durable than other options, able to deform from gravity	The heaviest materials that can be used to make a stool in standard sizes
Polypropylene Hollow Tubes	Simplicity of processing, as a rule, scraps remain from repair or construction, do not require special conditions for operation	A soldering iron is required	The lightest material possible. You can create a bench of any size, which are convenient, it will have little effect on weight

The universal bench bench for the garden is easily made with your own hands, you only need to make a little effort. In addition to the necessary raw materials, tools will also be required. Basically, those are taken at hand: a hand saw or a type of “grinder”, a jigsaw, a drill for drilling holes. To work with plastic tubes, you will need a hacksaw for metal, as well as a plumbing soldering iron.

When working with tools, it is necessary to protect the hands with gloves, and the eyes with glasses to avoid injuries.

How to make yourself

The process of manufacturing a bench for weeding beds does not take much time. First you need to decide on the materials. Then you can start the labor process. To make a simple wooden bench, you will need:

• boards with a thickness of 15-25 mm;
• jigsaw for cutting holes;
• drill;
• sandpaper for polishing;
• furniture wooden pins;
• glue for wood;
• oilcloth;
• soft material such as foam rubber.

Two trapezoidal legs with a difference between the upper and lower parts of about 10 centimeters are cut from suitable width boards. For example, the top element may be 25 cm wide, the bottom - 38.If the width of the boards is not enough, the sidewall parts will have to be additionally mounted on the crossbars at the top and bottom. The height of the sidewalls, as a rule, is from 50 cm and above. Work algorithm:

You can also build a bench for weeding beds from small boards of hard wood. In this case, instead of a solid seat and sidewalls, the structure is assembled from separate trims. A DIY stool should be carefully varnished or painted to prevent exposure to moisture, dirt and insects.

For a better understanding of how to make a stool for weeding with your own hands, you should first study the diagrams and design drawings presented on numerous thematic sites.

To make a stool from polypropylene tubes, you will need:

• polypropylene pipes with a diameter of 32 mm - four meters;
• ninety-degree corner of the same diameter - 8 pieces;
• tees for a diameter of 32 mm - 8 pieces;
• plumbing soldering iron;
• hacksaw for metal;
• plywood for the seat;
• material for soft backing.

First, you need to cut the pipes with a hacksaw according to this scheme:

• 24 cm - six pieces;
• 14.5 cm - six pieces;
• 34.5 cm - four pieces;
• 3 cm - four pieces.

Solder the middle of two segments of 24 cm and six of 14.5 cm. Then, solder the upper legs-handrails, two tubes of 24 cm, and then the sides - 34.5 cm, the lower handrails-legs. From the bottom and top, screw the plywood cut to size. For softness, any porous material can be sewn or glued to it.

The final dimensions of the product, made according to the above instructions, will be:

• height - 49 cm;
• length - 60 cm;
• width - 33 cm;
• weight - 5.5 kg.

This simplest design has a number of advantages: it is lightweight, does not require special storage conditions, is painted, and is not subject to corrosion and decay. If necessary, the dimensions of the universal bench for the garden with your own hands can be arbitrarily changed without compromising on the strength or weight of the product.

Additional equipment

For the convenience of using the bench, it can be equipped with various useful trifles. Here imagination and personal needs will come to the rescue:

• so that it is convenient to use the product for processing beds, for example, when you need to kneel, weed, or loosen the planting and cut the plants, a variety of padded seats are suitable;
• a mat made of foam rubber wrapped in oilcloth can be attached on both sides of the seat to make it softer to sit and kneel; for the convenience of washing contaminated material, it is better to make it removable, for example, in the form of a pillow with ties;
• on the sidewalls you can fix fabric pockets with valves for small equipment or water bottles;
• for carrying, you can build a shoulder strap that allows you to free your hands.

To soften the seat mat, pieces of tourist foam, synthetic winterizer, polystyrene, holofiber, struttofiber, and other synthetic printed materials can be used.

As you could see, the simplicity of the design will allow you to easily create a "changeling" yourself. Such a homemade stool for weeding will remain a useful and necessary device for a long time, and its use in the garden and garden will help to save strength and health.

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