Homemade Trash Pick Up Stick

41 wooden skewers the type used for cookouts which are found in supermarkets scissors.

Homemade trash pick up stick.

Paint the sticks your chosen colors and allow to dry. They make a good project for a scout troop or the like. Get it as soon as tue sep 8. It seems like it would be easy to mass produce these or at least make a few for some friends going to pick up trash.

I came up with the design a few years ago and made several dozen green grabbers for people to use at these events. Product title 33 folding pick up reaching tool easy reach grab stick extend reacher. Let everything dry thoroughly and pick up them sticks. An old flathead screwdriver a mop or broom handle two paint stirrers and duct tape.

Current price 9 99 9. Leave about an inch unpainted on the blunt end of the sticks. Five colors of acrylic paint my point scheme on the printout is based on the colors black blue yellow green and red but feel free to choose your own colors. On the white stick paint a contrasting color.

Ok so my wife asked me to get her one of those garbage spikes so she can pick up stuff in our yard. 99 29 99 count 34 99 34 99. They work great and can be used to pick up trash and many other objects. Let s get right to work on our homemade pick up sticks.

For the pick up sticks. The video in step 5 shows me picking up a piece of scrap banding a helium cylinder and a can of olives. Tape the handle of the screwdriver to the end of the broom handle. On the blunt end paint a stripe of white about one inch wide.

Nice and simple design. This type of grabber works better if you are trying to pick up trash around the yard. Product title heavy duty compact pick up tool trash grabbing pc cable pulling folding reaching claw arm. So when my wife said she.

For some reason our yard acts as a collection point for the neighborhoods loose garbage every time the wind blows. I was thinking about making some trash picker uppers and i think i ll use this design. This part really serves no purpose whatsoever except for looking rad.