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- From: Lucy Goodman <goodows AT infinet.com>
- To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Tools for small farmers
- Date: Sat, 03 Jul 2004 05:33:16 -0400
I knew a guy who made a bicycle powered plow. It worked well in sand but in any other soil type it took far longer to use the bike implement than double digging. I think he could do a 50' x 8' bed in clay loam soils in about 6 hours. he based it on a design he got from a guy in N mex.
I am not saying that bike powered tools could not be done but the things I have seen were interesting but not practical, oh except for the flour mill that could put out something like a pound an for an hour of peddling. That is not to say that with R&D bike power tools could not be way useful.
Lucy Goodman
Boulder Belt
http://www.boulderbelt.com
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[Market-farming] Tools for small farmers,
Baruch Bashan, 07/03/2004
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Re: [Market-farming] Tools for small farmers,
Lucy Goodman, 07/03/2004
- Re: [Market-farming] Tools for small farmers, Mark A Abner, 07/03/2004
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Re: [Market-farming] Tools for small farmers,
Grow19, 07/06/2004
- Re: [Market-farming] Tools for small farmers, Pat Meadows, 07/06/2004
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Re: [Market-farming] Tools for small farmers,
Lucy Goodman, 07/03/2004
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