[Market-farming] Mobile strawberry picking platform

Two Onion Farm farmer at twoonionfarm.com
Tue Dec 9 10:19:26 EST 2008


I also recommend the links in Andy's email below.

I have built several simple wooden carts based on the cart.htm plans 
in Andy's email.  I replaced the seat shown on the webpage with a 
simple flat piece of plywood about 3 or 4 feet wide.  We use these 
carts for harvesting lettuce, onions, beets, rutabagas and other 
veggies.  The harvester can scoot along on the cart with a harvest 
crate laid on the seat next to them.  The carts are very popular with 
our workers, and with me.

The motorized laydown carts described in the laydown.htm page are 
quire expensive.  I have borrowed a Drangen motorized cart briefly 
and it was awesome.  However we could not afford one.  We have built 
a wooden non-motorized laydown cart.  Pictures are here: 
http://www.twoonionfarm.com/Pictures/Laydown%20Cart.htm.  The user 
pushes the cart with their feet or by reaching out with their hands 
to turn the front wheels.  The cart straddles one bed - the cart in 
the pictures is approximately 5' OC between the wheels; we have since 
modified the cart to be 4' OC between the wheels because we switched 
to narrower beds.  We use the cart for transplanting, planting 
garlic, and for handweeding young direct seeded vegetables such as 
carrots and beets.  The cart has low clearance and so it is not 
suitable for working above larger plants.  Also the user needs a 
place to put their toes down, i.e., in between the rows of 
plants.  For transplanting, there is a shelf under the torso support 
which can hold trays of seedlings.

Chris

At 12:21 PM 12/7/2008, you wrote:
>Date: Sat, 06 Dec 2008 14:39:37 -0500
>From: Andy Fellenz <fellenz at fltg.net>
>Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Mobile strawberry picking platform
>To: Market Farming <market-farming at lists.ibiblio.org>
>Message-ID: <493AD4F9.6030104 at fltg.net>
>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
>
>Take a look at these:
>
>http://bse.wisc.edu/hfhp/tipsheets_html/cart.htm
>
>http://bse.wisc.edu/hfhp/tipsheets_html/laydown.htm
>
>Andy
>www.FellenzFamilyFarm.com



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