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  • From: John Ferree <john AT seldomseenfarm.com>
  • To: lists AT rhomestead.com, Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Row spacing
  • Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 07:40:28 -0400

Hey Beth
we just got our planter setup for the g. . . seems to be working well.
we're on 60" centers w/ approx 48" bed top. we're planting salad crops
on 12" centers, 4 rows and 2-3 row crops on 30/15" centers. we're using
planet jr's. and made a custom planter bar that will allow us to
reconfigure the seeders with any of those spacings and use the newer
planters made for 3pt. Hard to get planet jr's any closer than 12"
without doing two passes. And it's a pain to change seed/shoes with the
12" centers.

i put together a potato hiller/furrower with two pairs of discs. . . a
double tool bar would be very helpful. hard to get the discs to make a
narrow furrow without it.

the biggest problem is finding the W clamps for the G toolbar. you
might consider making a G toolbar out of 2" square tube and have the
mount come off of that. much easier when looking for cultivator parts.
(i haven't done this. . . but would like to for future implements.)

yeah, you probably need another master tool carrier if you want to run
both.

are you planting with a tractor mounted seeder /walking/mainly transplants?

hope that helps
john

Beth Spaugh wrote:
> Advice please. We just got an Allis Chalmers G. It does not have implements,
> yet. I played around on paper and decided that 48" center to center bed
> spacing would be my best use of land (2 acres). I could do 1 row down the
> middle, and 3 rows at 12" spacing. To keep cultivators consistent, if
> something, like beans, would do well 2 rows, I'd just plant two of the three
> rows. I'd like to find a toolbar/sweeps/disks setup that is easy and quick
> to slide the sweeps, and could move them over 6 " and have the two rows
> centered, or do 18" row spacing even.
>
> Well, I started planting yesterday, and that 6" before the 12" space for the
> wheel tracks looks awful small. I have not ordered sweeps, etc, yet. I see a
> couple of options: go to 5 foot center to center bed width (4 feet "bed" and
> 1 foot for driving) or reduce the row spacing to 9 inches. The only thing I
> see offhand that would be a problem with 9" row spacing is the lettuces. The
> really large ones, like Jericho, I could drop down to two rows/bed. Or
> harvest teenage heads, planted more closely in row, and probably make more
> money.
>
> Advice appreciated, quickly, please. The master tool carrier and lift should
> arrive late next week, and I want to order sweeps and hilling disks to use
> when it gets here. Sweeps because we have quackgrass and Canada thistle as
> our main weeds. When we get them under control, then maybe basket weeders.
> You G owners out there - anyone have the double toolbar? It looks like what
> I need?
>
> And we got parts of another G to electrify. Do we really need the master
> tool carrier or is there another way to lift the implements - the lift
> straight to the toolbar?
>
> Thank you.
>
> Beth Spaugh
> Rehoboth Homestead
> Peru NY
> http://rhomestead.com
>
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