[Market-farming] seeders
Road's End Farm
organic87 at frontiernet.net
Sun Mar 29 14:54:17 EDT 2009
On Mar 28, 2009, at 9:43 PM, Thomas Patrick Hurtgen wrote:
> Rivka, What parts of the Earthway are you cleaning and with what? I
> have an older Earthway that actually has a grove worn in the aluminum
> where the plate rotates. Overall I have good performance from my
> seeder but when planting peas, it will sound and act like a popcorn
> popper -- spitting pea seeds out of the box instead of dropping them
> gently down the seeding tube. Any help that readers can offer would
> be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
> Tom, Hurtgen Meadows Farm, zone 7, Hillsborough, NC
As I remember it, I just took apart everything that looked reasonably
easy to take apart, washed it all off, including the seed plates
(using, I think, a little dish soap and a dish cloth), let it dry,
oiled what looked like it could probably use oiling (I don't remember
whether I used 30 weight or WD40, but think it was probably the WD40),
and put it all back together. I only figured out last year that I
needed to do this. The problem you describe with the peas had been
getting worse and worse; also with soybeans; and was massively better
after the cleaning. I expect I'll do it every year. This year I'll try
letting the seed plates and hopper dry without rinsing all the soap
off, as another poster suggested; though it occurs to me that I might
need to rinse and resoap, to make sure the dirt does get rinsed off.
>
-- Rivka; Finger Lakes NY, Zone 5 mostly
Fresh-market organic produce, small scale
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