A drill? Bandsaw? Safer? Obviously you've never seen me with a power tool.

Karen

OK, I'll just say that it's neat and quick.

Luke

I love my bandsaw. It's my most used tool when it comes to creating containers. It's really quick and easy. drilling and burning holes takes forever in comparison. Wives, you should buy your husband a bandsaw for Christmas. :)

LOL, Karen, I'm with you! I think I'll stick with my trusty scissors. I think I can do a lot less damage to myself with them. Power tools scare me - I admit it!

:)
Dee

Wow. And here I thought my 30-seconds with a pair of ordinary scissors was impressive. Shoot.

I have never used a bandsaw. They do sound sacry to me too. But I have to tell you girls that if I can use a cordless drill anyone can:) They are harmless.
Glenna

I guess we all have our own favorite ways to attack a milk jug. Mine is usually an ice pick followed by an awl to enlarge the holes, but I did a few jugs yesterday with a small paring knife and that worked well on those particular half-gallon jugs.

Mary

I guess it's a guy thing... Never pass up an opportunity to use your power tools. Scissors would be my 2nd choice, but they don't make any noise, little risk, and they don't cost hundreds of dollars. Luke

note to self: stay away from certain people on this forum during WS jug prep- esp the ones with ice picks, and sawzalls...

...just back away slowly...

LOL, Luke, I guess you're right!

:)
Dee

Luke, I am your Father Mother, uh no, I am the Mother of Winter Sowi, uh er, uhmm, whatever ;-O

Luke, I use a cheapo pair of scissors from the dollar store--just push in a blade into a side about half-way up and snip snip snip, but I don't cut through the label. The bottom is easy too. Just kinda fold-a-bit the curve of the edge and snip an inch once per side.

T

I use one of those utility knives with the snap blade. Cuts like butter! I use it to take a hunk of the corner off the milk jugs too. Maybe I should go to the Dollar store and get me some cheap-o scissors. :)

Dear Mom, Do I have to use sissors??? I really love my band saw. I really like to have 2 hands free to hold the jug. It's like the band saw was made for cutting WS jugs. But, if you insist, I'll use sissors.....now, where are they?

Respectfully,
Luke

Luke, you can use your band saw. I would prefer safety scissors but boys have their toys.
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How many tools does WinterSown Mother use to open a milkjug?

None. Sigh. Lasers will just shoot out of my eyes...

Dear Winter Sown Mom, How about a hot glue gun to close the MJ? Take a strip of MJ (cut with a band saw) and apply 2 drops to the ends and close the MJ. Is this original or what? I'm contacting the Us patent office tomorrow,

Respectfully,

Luke

Depending on my mood, I have used, and still sometimes use, scissors, an ice pick, steak knife, utility knife- whatever my hands land on in that old tray. No high tech needed. My hands are pretty bad with carpal tunnels, arthritis, and in the not too distant past 2 trigger thumbs and tendonitis. My hands are so clumsy my husband cringes when he sees me in action. I've tried using his drill. I can't tighten the bit enough and - well- that doesn't work so well.

Most comforting is that I work with a terrific group of hand surgery specialists. If I cut off any digits, stab any arteries, or anything else, they can fix me up. My husband knows where to take me.

Karen

Ladies, men like to use their tools, and obviously Luke has a well equipped workshop set up all the time. Luke, when you get rich from the patent, we can say "We knew him from Gardenweb.com" I am not sure my husband has a bandsaw but I can use his chopsaw, drill and jigsaw if I need to. Luke, thanks for the helpful tips. Now do you know what a Yankee Screw driver is?

Dear Luke,

Thank you for the wonderful tips. I have a hot glue gun somewhere around here and even the glue rods too. To be honest, I am a glue-gun klutz, I wind up with hot strands of glue stringing from the end of the gun to whatever I'm daubing the hot glue on. It's never been pretty. And somehow those hot glue strands wind up in my hair, and well...that's not pretty either. Nor fun. I do have duct tape which I can manage well enough if it tears right for me, otherwise it too becomes a stringy sticky mess, but I haven't gotten it in my hair yet. Unlike the poor cat. Well, she didn't run around with the roll of duct tape stuck to her tail, but just the packing tape and she ran all over as it unwound because its tape gun got stuck behind a table leg and all you could here was the zimzimzimzimzimz of the unwinding tape and pathetic yowling. And you should have heard the cat meowing too.

I will talk to WS Dad about getting me a band saw but as he won't even let me use an exacto knife the purchase seems unlikely.

As always, your loving,
WS Mom

Pippi, Yes, I have 2 Yankee screw drivers. Not much fun.

Mom, WS Dad is a wise man and just how many cats do you have? Now, do you understand how dangerous tape can be? Maybe this WS stuff is just not worth the risk.
Luke

We have two cats Luke, one is Tyler--a big fat blobbo fur, and the other is Princess Schmincess who has been historically blamed accredited with forcing encouraging me to sow seeds outdoors because of some territorial domain dispute--the windows are hers, or so she claims.

Here is a link that might be useful:

Trudi, All joking aside...thanks for all of your efforts to promote WS. I'm pleased to find a horticultural project that expands into the winter months. This is my 1st attempt at WS, so I will be needing help along the way. The people on this forum are great and always ready to help. I find it amusing how many different ways that there is to cut up a milk jug. I'm thinking... chain saw.

Thanks again,
Luke

Luke, save the chainsaw for taking out trees where you need to build new beds to plant all the wintersown Hunks o Seedlings.

Chainsaw no, too big.

Hubs has used a Sawzall for cutting open those giant water bottles for the office water coolers. They last years and years and years.

chainsaw...that must be one big a$$ milk jug...

I only use my chainsaw on those office water jugs when I get them full of change. Not happen yet. My stimulis package I got from the gov. had to spend it too. Moving back to the country so I can get my milk out of the cow instead of the jug. Atleast don't have to worry about getting poked with a pick, cut with a knife, have to band with a saw (bandsaw), don't even have to worry about cutting a milk jug with my famous cutting torch. Durn thing, melts them jugs everytime