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  • From: Andy Fellenz <artisanfarms AT gmail.com>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Weed and Till cultivators
  • Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2012 22:38:02 -0500

I have an antique cultivator which looks very similar to the "weed and till".It isn't much harder to push than a Planet Jr.  The biggest problem I have had with mine is getting rocks stuck in it.  It works fine in sandy loams, but doesn't like gravelly soils at all.

Andy

On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 10:20 PM, Marlin Burkholder <burkholders AT glenecofarm.com> wrote:
I’ve been doing some thinking recently of a hand pushed cultivator called “Weed and Till” offered by some garden supply places.  It consists of a rolling cylinder with sharp steel cleats designed to roll down and cut up weeds and clods followed by a five shovel cultivator, and looks to be about 18 inches wide.  I would use it to clean up and prep seedbeds inside high tunnels.  It looks like it would be a bear to push by hand.  I am a pretty big guy and should be able to handle it if anybody could.  However I find the pictures of them to be a little intimidating.  Has anyone used these things?  Are they worth considering?  JSS has their “Tilthier” which looks pretty clever but I bet it would go through a rechargeable power tool battery pretty fast and it looks a little pricey.

Marlin Burkholder
Virginia


 
 
 
 
 


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