[Market-farming] 3 PT Tiller / Spader
Wyatt Jones
wyatt_jones at netzero.com
Thu Jan 22 14:02:51 EST 2009
I thought about getting a recipocating spader but got a small chisel plow instead. Recipocating spaders are high maintenance, especially when considering having to replace the shovels, Tortella spec thier shovels at 1- acres each, meaning a 5 shovel unit has to have its shovels replaced every 50 acres and they cost $60 each. The rotary spaders seem more like improved rototillers to me and still churn the soil a lot. I'm considering getting a Power Harrow, if i can find a decent one cheap enough, the secondary tillage companion to the spader, which is really a primary tillage tool. Rotary harrrows are sort of like a vertical tiller and don't mix up soil layers or bury fertilizer and topsoil. Some people use them as a single pass Primary/secondary tillage tool as it can till about a foot deep but I have clay soil and probably can't use it that way though I might try if I get it. Anybody ever use one of these? I've used a small, two wheel tractor model and it worked well but didn't go very deep.
Wyatt
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