[Market-farming] Mobile strawberry picking platform
Richard Robinson
rrobinson at nasw.org
Tue Dec 9 17:42:19 EST 2008
THanks to all! Chris, the platform on your webpage is about what I was imagining. And Andy, I got as far as the motorized cart at the Wisconsin site, but missed the self-propelled ones. This list is a great resource!
RR
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Richard Robinson
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On Tue, 09 Dec 2008 09:19:26 -0600, Two Onion Farm wrote:
> 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:
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>> 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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