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  • From: Alex McGregor <waldenfarm AT sprintmail.com>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: Johnson Bed Shaper
  • Date: Tue, 01 Jan 2002 14:13:52 -0500


Mike,

What kind of tillage equipment do you use? I have a friend who uses a
spader. It gave him a nice bed, but his beds are on a slight slope and the
soil kept spilling onto his paths on the downhill side of his beds,
requiring shoveling and reshaping after tillage.

I helped him solve this by designing some heavy sheet steel sides to add on
to his spader frame. He had a local shop fabricate them. Now he does his
tillage and bed shaping in one pass.

If you use another implement, you might be able to fabricate an add on
behind with wheels for depth adjustment and sides & top to shape as you go.

All of this requires some time and expense, but may be a lot cheaper to
build or have fabricated if you can design it. And will save hours of
tractor time and fuel over time.

Try looking at a number of bed shapers of area farmers and talk to them
about what works and how they would change it. And look at new equipment
at dealers for more ideas.

Alex McGregor
Walden Farm





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