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  • From: Bill Bradshaw <billbradshaw AT direcway.com>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] bed shapers
  • Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 17:42:09 -0600

Willie, how bout posting a photo of your new find?TB
----- Original Message -----
From: "Willie McKemie" <mf AT austinfarm.org>
To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Monday, February 21, 2005 12:21 PM
Subject: [Market-farming] bed shapers


> In order to used the hand-pushed seeders I recently acquired, I have
> been out with a 5 gallon plastic bucket flattening out freshly thrown
> up bed tops. I think a leveled slightly compacted bed top would make
> tractor pulled PlanetJrs go more smoothly, too.
>
> I've been mulling over the possibility of getting a roller made that
> dangles off of 3-point lift arms. I'm thinking 8"-12" pipe about 27"
> long. I would rather have a roller made from two cones (smaller
> diameter in the middle) to give me a crowned bed, but I think that
> that is more than I want to attack at this time.
>
> Does anyone have ideas? Has anyone seen anything like that "off the
> shelf"?
>
> I had a bed shaper that laid plastic mulch and irrigation tape as
> well as pressing the bed, but that was a massive thing that needed
> 50+ hp. I'm thinking of something easier to handle.
>
> On the subject of bedding: I have used a disk bedder for many years; I
> like to cultivate with it too. It rolls over and cuts up stuff that is
> too far gone for traditional cultivators. But it needs tedious
> adjustment to go between the bed building and cultivating
> configurations. I recently came across another disk bedder and I jumped
> on it (bought it); I am leaving the new bedder set up to cultivate. I
> just pulled it over my badly overgrown asparagus. With the bedder, I
> can cut up the stuff in the middles so that I stand a chance of getting
> sweeps down the rows.
>
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