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  • From: Fellenz <fellenz AT fltg.net>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Wheelhoes
  • Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 11:05:28 -0500

Richard,

The second Planet Jr. you are describing was commonly used for onions in my area.  It should havfe a U-shaped knife attached to the frame/wheel and immediately behind the wheel in addition to the cultivator tines.   It works well very well in sandy soils, but if you have rocks, you have to watch out that rocks don't get bound up between the wheel and the knife which is immediately behind the knife.  The way they work best is to push them down the row with the knife slightly below the surface of the soil.  The knife should kill most of the weeds in the white thread stage and the cultivator tines at the rear will uproot larger weeds and leave a well aerated bed as you cultivate. 

Andy

Richard Stewart wrote:
786C42C7-195F-4191-AFBD-EC9B6F3F621C AT zoomtown.com" type="cite">Believe it or not, I just found TWO in one of my barns last Friday.  I spent the last half of that day stripping paint off the one and pounding a bent strut straight on the anvil.  Its sort of an interesting design with three tool types a frame that hangs under the traditional wheel hoe handle and wheel set-up.  It has a five tine cultivator, a furrow, and a stirrup style hoe.  I painted it Sunday its original yellow, green, and red colors and will put it together after I get a second coat on (and take some pictures).

The other one is still all together.  I'll fix it and clean it up next week.  Its a neat design I have never used before.  It has you standard tines in the back, five of them.  Rather than a wheel though, it as a drum with large saw tooth corkscrew pattern that looks like it would do a good job as a VERY light weight till or aerator.  Certainly a whole lot less ground pressure than a narrow wheel.

I'll take pictures of that as well.

Cheers!

Richard Stewart
Carriage House Farm
North Bend, Ohio

An Ohio Century Farm Est. 1855

(513) 967-1106





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