[Market-farming] Two-Wheeled Tractors - Seedbed after Ploughing

Mark Abner wizard1 at ctsbroadband.com
Mon Feb 25 18:50:12 EST 2008


Robin
    I use a BCS walking tractor for about all my vegitable cultivation and
my haying to for that matter. With the rotory plow I dont need to turn the
sod with a large tractor the rotory plow both inverts the soil and breakes
it up ready for seeding in most cases. With soil all ready turned by mold
board plow I would probalby use the 26 inch tiller attachment on my BCS to
break up the clods and work it down for seeding. It isnt a cheap inverstment
to purchase a BCS and implements but you can do an awful lot of farming with
the thing,and they are very fuel efficient. I like the fact I can load it
into the back of the pick up with most every emplement includeing the hay
baler on it  I only have to use my traler if I am hauling the rake tedder
implemnat as it is to wide to fit in a pick up bed.


Mark
zone 6b kentucky USA
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[mailto:market-farming-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org]On Behalf Of Robin at
NamaYasai
  Sent: Sunday, February 17, 2008 9:49 AM
  To: 'Market Farming'
  Subject: [Market-farming] Two-Wheeled Tractors - Seedbed after Ploughing


  Greetings all, I'm new on this list and rather far away (East Sussex in
England!). Topic on seed planters was very useful to me as we are about to
buy a couple.



  Question. After the first ploughing of the season, where a mix of grass
and cereal stubble was turned under by a local farmer with a tractor, do you
think that a two-wheeled tractor with a harrow attached could deal with the
big ridges and furrows to prepare a seed bed? We want to try and manage with
a two-wheeled tractor for all our mechanised work, thinking that the bigger
4-wheeled machines are too heavy and too expensive on fuel, but I have
doubts that the likes of Ferrari would be up to the job. Any advice and
links to your recommended manufacturers would be appreciated.



  Here's the state of our soil now:
http://www.namayasai.co.uk/Farm/Isfield.htm



  Tx. Robin.


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