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  • From: "Johnathan Avery Yelenick" <yelenick AT riseup.net>
  • To: market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [Market-farming] Model G or Tuff-Bilt vs. Williams Tool System
  • Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2009 11:20:50 -0600 (MDT)

For the Williams Tool System go here:
http://marketfarm.com/
Click on the "online catalog" tab
Then, click on the "cultivators" tab
Then, click on the "Williams Tool System" tab

For the Tuff-Bilt go here:
http://www.tuff-bilt.com/index.htm

Which would you say gives the most "bang for the buck"?

The belly mounted sweeps on the G's or Tuffs have the virtues of taking
out large weeds, which the farmer may not have been able to get to
earlier. Whereas, with the WTS, one would have to remain pretty consistent
with weekly weeding to stay on top of the weeds. The WTSystem makes some
pretty bold claims, including one that directly precludes any "belly
mounted cultivator": "It [the Williams Tool System] can cultivate closer
to the row than a cultivator guidance tractor with belly mounted tools
because it removes human error in steering the cultivator. The tractor
just pulls the cultivator and is not used to guide it".

The WTSystmem is less expensive than a belly mounted tractor, too.

I'm a beginning farmer in the market to purchase equipment, thus the
question :)

Johnathan Yelenick
Blacktail Permaculture Farm
South Platte River Watershed of the Short Grass Prairie Steppe Bioregion
near Denver, Colorado

--

"If your experience is that your water comes from the tap and that your
food comes from the grocery store then you are going to defend to the
death the system that brings those to you because your life depends on
that; if your experience is that your water comes from a river and that
your food comes from a land base then you will defend those to the death
because your life depends on them. So part of the problem is that we have
become so dependent upon this system that is killing and exploiting us, it
has become almost impossible for us to imagine living outside of it and
it's very difficult physically for us to live outside of it."
— Derrick Jensen







  • [Market-farming] Model G or Tuff-Bilt vs. Williams Tool System, Johnathan Avery Yelenick, 08/24/2009

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