[Market-farming] Wheelhoes
Fellenz
fellenz at fltg.net
Tue Feb 12 11:05:28 EST 2008
Richard,
The second Planet Jr. you are describing was commonly used for onions in
my area. It should havfe a U-shaped knife attached to the frame/wheel
and immediately behind the wheel in addition to the cultivator tines.
It works well very well in sandy soils, but if you have rocks, you have
to watch out that rocks don't get bound up between the wheel and the
knife which is immediately behind the knife. The way they work best is
to push them down the row with the knife slightly below the surface of
the soil. The knife should kill most of the weeds in the white thread
stage and the cultivator tines at the rear will uproot larger weeds and
leave a well aerated bed as you cultivate.
Andy
Richard Stewart wrote:
> Believe it or not, I just found TWO in one of my barns last Friday. I
> spent the last half of that day stripping paint off the one and
> pounding a bent strut straight on the anvil. Its sort of an
> interesting design with three tool types a frame that hangs under the
> traditional wheel hoe handle and wheel set-up. It has a five tine
> cultivator, a furrow, and a stirrup style hoe. I painted it Sunday
> its original yellow, green, and red colors and will put it together
> after I get a second coat on (and take some pictures).
>
> The other one is still all together. I'll fix it and clean it up next
> week. Its a neat design I have never used before. It has you
> standard tines in the back, five of them. Rather than a wheel though,
> it as a drum with large saw tooth corkscrew pattern that looks like it
> would do a good job as a VERY light weight till or aerator. Certainly
> a whole lot less ground pressure than a narrow wheel.
>
> I'll take pictures of that as well.
>
> Cheers!
>
> Richard Stewart
> Carriage House Farm
> North Bend, Ohio
>
> An Ohio Century Farm Est. 1855
>
> (513) 967-1106
> http://www.carriagehousefarmllc.com
> rstewart at zoomtown.comRichard, <mailto:rstewart at zoomtown.com>
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