Market Farming

[Allan Balliett <igg AT igg.com>]

I'm definitely interested in knowing more, Alex. One thing that 
concerns me is that our heavy soils here do not hill up in the least 
after being spaded, so it's not a simple issue of 'shaping.' The 
bedshapers I've looked at have hilling disks at the front and rear of 
them and some sort of 'leveler' bar atop a pair of 'ibeams.' I may be 
having false memories, but I seem to recollect that the shapers were 
also rather long.

I'd like to know more about your. (No, I don't make it to SAWG...it's 
one of those NORTHERN VIRGINIA things, you know.)

-Allan

> 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.