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  • From: "Judy & Ernie Duckworth" <jeduck AT midwest.net>
  • To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Picking Veggies
  • Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 22:59:17 -0500

A Rusty's AG Sales in MI makes a engine powered cart like you are talking
about. It also can be peddle powered. I'm seen them at a trade show and it
looks to do the trick. Didn't price it.
Their number is 1-800-373-2809 They have an add in the latest The Vegetable
Growers News.

Ernie half of JEDs

----- Original Message -----
From: "John Hendrickson" <jhendric AT wisc.edu>
To: <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2004 11:39 AM
Subject: RE: [Market-farming] Picking Veggies


> They are not cheap but several (vegetable and flower) growers in WI have
> invested in the Swedish-made "Drangen"---an ergonomic, lay-down crawler
> tractor that can be used for planting, weeding, and harvesting. The base
> price is something like $6,000 dollars so they may not be in the price
> range for many folks but I know both large-scale and small-scale growers
> who have invested in them and the labor-savings and body pain-savings are
> significant. See the below links for information:
>
> http://bse.wisc.edu/hfhp/tipsheets_html/laydown.htm
> http://www.dobmac.com.au/drangen.html
>
> On the cheaper side of things, I sometimes use a strap-on milking stool
> (http://bse.wisc.edu/hfhp/tipsheets_html/stool.htm)
> to pick things like cherry tomatoes and peas.
>
> For a description and plans for a self-propelled harvest cart, see:
>
> http://bse.wisc.edu/hfhp/tipsheets_html/cartplans.htm
> and
> http://bse.wisc.edu/hfhp/tipsheets_html/cart.htm
>
> -John
>
> John Hendrickson
> Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems
> University of Wisconsin-Madison
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> street: 1535 Observatory Drive
> Madison, WI 53706
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> www.wisc.edu/cias
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