I am using a simple metal hole punch used for paper. It works on aluminum. Just got a SS role so I will try in that soon.
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I use a metal hole punch, it works with both aluminum and stainless steel but it’s a little bit harder to cut the stainless steel than the aluminum but still does the job!
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Thanks you two, I’ll think about tracking one down.
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Aha, that makes a lot of sense! I wonder how much more windy it is where you are. I’ve actually got mine mounted to the ground with a long homemade landscape staple, so I don’t have to worry about deer chewing my tags off or wind whipping them around and causing the tag to wear through.
I had a friend whose wife would punch holes in canning jar lids every year to turn them into Christmas tree ornament gifts. She was doing sixty to a hundred of these each year, but I realized that she was using the hammer and trim nail method. We had a metal punch kit at work
that we had been using for years, and it gave a much faster and cleaner punch to the lids. It was effortless. If I didn’t have a Dymo M1011 that has the built-in punch head then I would have sought out something similar.
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This is not a bad idea if you only have one variety per tree, but when you have 8 to 12 varieties per tree this doesn’t work, that’s why is best the other tags but needed to be stainless steel not aluminum in my opinion and experience.
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Same here @Ruben, I can’t plant more trees but that doesn’t mean I’m done collecting varieties.
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@Gkight I still have a little more to squeeze in but multi grafting is been great, specially when people have small yards these is the way to go.
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I don’t know what would! I have one or two branch grafts on a handful of trees. I step around to the side of the tree where the graft grows and inscribe an arrow on the aluminum with the name of the scion and the date. I used to be able to read the inscriptions, too.
What filament/material did you use?
I got my tape rolls from this place. They have plastic, aluminum and stainless.
I allow a little extra tape at the hole punch end and fold it over and punch the hole thru 2 layers.
Makes the hole much stronger. I have had no problems with aluminum tape.
TNHunter
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That’s clever, well done.
Is that copper wire you’re hanging it from?
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@murky … yes… just the bare copper wire from a roll of rollmex I had left over from our home build.
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I have been unsuccessful loading the stainless steel roll into my Dymo. It seems too thick to feed.
And now I’m wearing a band-aid as its certainly thin enough to cut if you handle it wrongly.
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I think I had a similar experience trying to use an old school Ebay Dymo, which led me to get the metal embosser.
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You might have mentioned it earlier, but what is the make and model of what you ended up getting?
If it is still this one, it appears to be the same Dymo M1011 that several of us are using.
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Ordered a new one so I know it is complete and will work.
Dymo Rhino M1011 Metal Tape Embosser Kit (101105)
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Old cow neck chains with the plastic ‘number tags’. Bought a 5g. pails worth at an auction for a dollar- each tree gets one and I record the number/variety/planting date etc. on a history page for each tree.
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