Landscaping

Two 4-foot fences 4 feet apart — deer can jump high or far but not both, and can't judge the double line, so they don't try.

Slotted forms that shape the footing, never get stripped, and remain as a dead-level perimeter drain with daylight and radon outlets.

Riding a wood block along a natural rock face to transfer its profile onto a slab, then cutting the curve with a wet saw.

Locating the center and radius of a curve so you can reproduce it.

Pulling a small tire through a clogged culvert to scrape it clean.

Raising solar path lights on pipe posts so they stand above the driveway edge instead of sitting at grade.

Using a hay hook as a handle to lift and adjust heavy stone slabs without fingers underneath.

Aiming the blower up the wall so the backdraft pushes debris away from doorways and cracks instead of into them.

Hose-clamping a pipe to a reciprocating saw blade so the saw's stroke hammers the pipe through soil under a walkway.

Hot-gluing rigid strips into an exact template of an irregular opening, then cutting the workpiece to match — one cut, first-time fit.

Buried clay vessels that water a garden bed slowly from below.

Getting a tree stump out of the ground without a grinder.