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  • From: "Kevin Ancell" <kancell AT getonthe.net>
  • To: "market farming" <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>, <kampy AT grm.net>
  • Subject: Re: mechanical transplanter
  • Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 13:55:17 -0600


Marie-

You can drive to Weston Missouri and find one. That is a tobacco producing
area and I think it is close to you. I bought one at auction there about 2
years ago at "The New Deal Tobacco Warehouse" for $100.

Regards,

Kevin Ancell
Good Earth Gardens L.L.C.


----- Original Message -----
From: Marie Kamphefner <kampy AT grm.net>
To: market farming <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2001 12:53 PM
Subject: mechanical transplanter


> Regards to the list:
>
> I recall posting and whining about this subject last year, or the year
> before and my apologies, but here I go again.
>
> I want/need a transplanter and I still don't think I can afford a new
> one. My neighbor has one but he's waiting for his father-in-law to come
> get it from Indiana or he would sell it to me. That was last spring and
> it's just a pile of rust setting by (not in) his barn.
>
> I could drive to Tennessee or Kentucky or Illinois or Indiana or Nebraska
> or Kansas or Iowa or south Missouri or even Minnesota, Arkansas or
Oklahoma
> (you get the picture) with the pickup truck to get one. My poor old knees
> ache just thinking about setting out strawberries, especially the right
one
> that the emu kicked. Not to mention cabbages, tomatoes, peppers - the
list
> goes on and on. It wouldn't have to be in perfect condition - hubby is
> pretty good at resurrecting old farm equipment (just have a look at the
> ancient one-row corn picker he got at an auction). However, the less
work
> to do on it, the better. I just know there is an affordable transplanter
> setting in a shed somewhere with my name on it. Please, please, please,
> help me find it!
>
> I would be forever grateful.
>
> Marie in North Missouri
>
>
>
>
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