Build a 4x8 Raised Garden Bed for $50! This Hack Makes it Stronger With No Wood (almost)

hey guys welcome back to the show today i want to build a planter that is four foot by eight foot by two foot deep and i can confirm as i have just returned from the lumber yard that wood prices are freaking insane two by fours that used to cost less than two bucks are now closer to nine dollars so i wanted to build this garden box with as little wood as possible and so what i've done here is let me show you what i've got in the truck okay first off as i'm sure you've seen before one mini garden planter builds just got some corrugated roofing this stuff is cheap this stuff is like 15 a sheet for a two foot by eight foot section so that's what the sides of the box are going to be made out of and then i also got some of this drip rail and i'll explain later how i'm going to use this i got three sheets of that excuse me three strips of that i'll be using that but i also i mean i'm gonna need a little bit of wood for this i tried to figure out if there's a way i could do this without using any wood at all and the problem i mean of course there is but it wasn't really going to be a savings in any way saving this old cypress from the girls playset from years ago has turned out to be a very wise decision even though it's been a pain to store now if you don't get off there if you don't have a couple cypress 4x4s hanging around your house don't sweat that because i'm going to be using such a tiny amount of wood in this project that i guarantee you you can find the wood you'll need even if you have to use pallet wood or wood behind somebody's shed somebody will have the tiny amount of wood you need for this garden planter box thingamajigger okay let's get let's go oh i was gonna try to do this mostly outside it's actually a pretty nice day out but the sand nats are horrible so i'm going to try to do part of it inside and part outside [Music] [Applause] first thing i want to do is verify that these actually are 24 inches and they are not they are in fact 26 and 3 16 tall so look at that i got more for my money than i expected the four by fours are going to go in the corners of the bed to provide structural support i need to mark out the 26 and 3 16 on here and then you can either you can cut these on the chop saw if you want you could cut it with a circular saw you could cut it with a hand saw i don't really want to put a lot of dust did i just say i'm going to have them in a minute but i was about i don't want to put a lot of dust in the shop so i'm just going to judo chop these okay hey all right first cut bring that down i'll actually use this one to mark this now one thing you do want to be careful of is if they're if you're using reclaimed wood that there's no screws in here because if you hit your hand on a screw or a nail rusting out you don't want to get tetanus also if you do choose to use the saw you'll ruin your blades so make sure you're free of screws or nails all right i was actually smacking those things so hard the pencil was popping in and out of existence check the video for yourself i want to find out what the depth of this roofing is and it is basically 9 16. so what i'm going to do is come in 9 16 and i'll figure out what how far over i want to go and i'll do that on both outside corners because you could ease you could you could just screw this straight into this 4x4 but i don't want to do that because you could come by and you could snag your clothes on here or worse snag your thumb on there and cut yourself this way it'll close those edges in and i'm going to cut those notches out by setting my saw up at two and a quarter inches and then the depth i'm going to make 5 8. so that'll be just a little bit deeper than the thickness of the corrugated metal [Music] so when i went to cut this i noticed that that was a little aggressive so i moved it back to i think two inches for the cut now i've got my saw set to three and an eighth inches which is what this space right here will be what it worked out to whenever i measure to the inside of the blade and now i just need to set the blade height to where it'll chop this section right here out [Music] [Music] [Music] a couple of things when you're doing this anytime you're cutting something like this where you're cutting out is the camera focused on me i hate this camera when you're cutting stuff like this where there's a particular pattern that you're having to follow don't get in a hurry and have a brain fart or you'll end up cutting off you know you'll spin it around the wrong way and cut the wrong piece off believe me i've done that plenty of times another cool thing i want to point out is and i love this cypress even though this cypress this cypress has been outside for i don't know about 10 years probably and when you cut it open look how beautiful it is this is my favorite wood to work with outside and if you ever do want cypress you're probably not going to find this at your lumber yard i had this custom milled whenever we built my daughter riley's play set many years ago and and i used it in the gate when madison and i built the garden gate a few videos back i had saved this whenever we took it down and i used this lumber for that one thing a couple things too i want to tell you about lumber because lumber prices are so crazy right now if you go on facebook people that do custom milling of green lumber man they're like hey this is my time to shine i'll sell you a 2x4 for seven dollars instead of nine dollars and if you're gonna be working on a project outside it's probably fine to use green lumber but don't don't try don't buy green lumber to save money on any project especially that's going to go inside because it's just going to roll up on itself as it dries unless you happen to get it kiln dried which most of these places don't do so i'm not knocking fresh milled lumber because it has its place just know what you're using it for and while we're talking about the wood you might use if you do go to buy wood don't don't feel like you have to buy pressure treated lumber pressure treated lumber obviously is going to last a lot longer but pine or fur will last a long time i mean you're talking about how long do you want to get out of this planter box 10 15 years don't buy pressure treated i see a lot of people building planter boxes out of pressure treated lumber and they'll cite that the fda says that it's totally safe well if you want to look back at the history of government saying things were safe that turned out to not be safe by all means if you come to the conclusion that it's totally safe to build your planter box out of pressure treated lumber do so and then you know when you get hot sit back and drink a nice cool glass of radium water i'm gonna split that sheet of corrugated metal in half for each end and for that i get to use my brand new handy dandy cordless jigsaw from milwaukee that pencil doesn't show up very well in there and that didn't work at all time for a sharpie actually it's not a sharpie at all it's a it's a milwaukee ink saw not sponsored by milwaukee although if they did want to sponsor it please feel free to give me a call mucho mas bueno now you could use tin snips for this but like i said i'm going to use the jigsaw and i've got a hacksaw blade in it this is my first actual use of this blade well of this saw first complaint it's kinda hard to see [Music] maybe not the best surface to cut it on i'll hit those edges with some sandpaper use a file if you have a file you're probably wondering why i didn't just tear that sheet of metal with my bare hands and sure i could have but i don't like to be a show-off i like to keep it real for the folks at home okay i did want to show you these are the planter boxes that i built last year for kim these are obviously raised off the ground elevated elevated if you will and these were made with cedar the for the outer boxes and everything but the legs were just made with regular fur this is the riveter remix these were made with fur four by fours and they're perfectly fine i mean yeah it's only been a year but they are as solid as can be if you haven't seen that video i will put that video link up here and check that out i stole kim's garden cart to get all this stuff out here be sure to be careful when you're moving this corrugated metal around probably better to wear gloves but i like to live dangerously so don't cut your hands open we got our garden started i don't know we got these potatoes planted maybe they've been planted a month and right after that the tsunami hit and we thought we'd probably lost them all but they're all coming up beautifully i mean i don't know if all these come up we'll probably end up with 300 pounds of potatoes here but we'll see so we have this section right here we've kind of changed everything up how we were going to do this so i'm going to put this garden planter right here the potatoes stop right there and right here and uh she's oh she's gonna use this i think for strawberries so let's get it put together we're doing the back to eden method of gardening so that's why we've got all these wood chips here and these wood chips are anywhere from four to eight inches deep so i've got to move them out of the way but i will say so far i've been really impressed with how well this has been working because other than that storm you know for several days uh you know maybe a week of close to a week of raining and then we haven't we haven't watered this not one time and these potatoes are just growing like crazy out here so so far so good [Music] i'm gonna take a piece of the roofing i'm gonna line that top up and i'm gonna pre-drill anytime you have to pre-drill for screws okay i actually picked up uh these they're four roofing they have a little rubber grommet at the bottom of the screw behind the head anytime you're pre-drilling for a screw the bit you use should be the size i mean a lot of you may know this but the size of the center of the screw not the thread the actual solid piece of the screw between the threads that's how big you want your your hole to be that you're pre-drilling so i'm going to go ahead and just get one started here to get rolling and then just work my way down actually actually i'm going to lay this down because that would be easier if you're using something if you're using a wood like cypress this is a very soft wood so you could strip out the wood where the threads are on the screw very easily this is where if you've got a second set of hands would come in handy i currently do not so i'll just make it work [Music] [Applause] at this point you could say it's done it's just a raised garden bed who cares if it's all cattywampus and out of whack i'm just growing flowers in it but that's not how i do it okay i'm gonna square this up and i'm gonna level it up and let me show you if you don't know how to make sure when you're laying something like this out if it's square or not the way you do that is you measure from that corner to this corner and that's 12 and an eight and then you measure from this corner to this corner and that's 111 and an eighth so i know that i've got to pull this in order to get this square [Music] you want to split the difference between those i'm at a hundred and eleven and five-eighths i'm at one eleven and five-eighths it's it's almost like i knew what i was doing okay next what i want to do is level it sideways and end to end and that's level okay so this end has got to go down i was just going to say and when you're doing this be careful because this is when you'll cut yourself and i just sliced across my thumb so this is the part where you want to be careful or you'll slice yourself here are all that burns next just to help with this buckling at the top i got to put one more screw all the way around at the top and that'll help with some of that but i'm also going to take this extra piece of wood that i had scrap and i've cut it to fit and the way i did this was i measured from that end to that end where i know that it's if you measure from the middle you'll not you won't get this right so measure each end to end and then cut your piece of wood to that length now this would be the part where you would normally run a wood top on here to keep you from slicing your thumb open on the top edge like i just did on the bottom edge but remember at the beginning of the video whenever i showed you that i had bought this drip rail yep that's right we're going to put this drip rail on the top edge and that is going to give us some extra strength and a nice i mean you can't cut yourself on this okay i went ahead and did what i should have done 45 minutes ago and put some gloves on overall i've got about 50 bucks in this project because i had the the four by fours that i could already use so you know worst case scenario maybe you're in this 75 bucks how much are you going to build a four foot by eight foot by two foot deep raised garden planter for 50 to 75 bucks and it's nice and sturdy this top edge there's no way i can cut myself totally protected shout out to corey the laser because he asked for it thanks for watching and i will see you next time

Channel: HAXMAN

Views: 267,160

Rating: 4.8971639 out of 5

Keywords: raised garden planter, raised planter, raised garden box, raised bed, raised garden bed, roofing metal planter, corrugated roofing planter

Id: I6gRBjlkKLY

Length: 20min 9sec (1209 seconds)

Published: Thu Mar 25 2021