Earthbag Tools

These are the most common earthbag building tools. Starting out with a grape hoe, and one slightly larger called a grub hoe, for digging and filling buckets. We have an earthbag slider. You fill the bags on the slider and then pull it out from underneath. That way you can fill bags on the wall. We use a garden hose to moisten the soil so it is not too dry. This is a bucket chute. It's a 4-gallon bucket with the bottom cut off that we use to fill the earthbags. These are 2-gallon buckets for carrying cement. We use them to carry the soil to fill oure bags. We have different plastering tools, different trowels and a hawk to put the mortar on. Four foot level. We have two tampers -- a short one and a long one. Make different sizes. We have a string line, wire cutters, hammer, tape measure, and a metal chisel and a piece of scrap metal for cutting barbed wire. Bolt cutters are maybe easier if you have them, but this is an inexpensive alternative. A knife, shovel and a corner guide made with two 2x4s nailed together to keep your corners straight and plumb. That's it.

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