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  • From: "Lova Andriamanjay" <lova.andriamanjay AT gmail.com>
  • To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Fw: 1. Re: Gas tractors vs diesels
  • Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 15:41:46 -0400


It is nice to hear we don't have to cultivate at a speed to high. I feared it would be hard for a beginner cultivating seedlings if it were too fast. Is anybody using L shaped knives to reach under the crop's canopy (in lettuce or broccoli for example)? How hard is it to not cultivate your crop when doing so?

Lova

Le 19 juil. 2011 09:48, sunnfarm AT netscape.com <sunnfarm AT netscape.com> a écrit :


My Farmall super A will cultivate easily running on dead idle. That is the advantage of a four cylinder engine. If speed is a problem you can compensate with different shaped cultivator sweeps. Cultivating tomatoes is easy at any speed but cultivating parsley up close can be unnerving yet guys around here do it 5 rows at a time with Farmalls. When you run the same tractor for a lifetime as I have, the tractor becomes an extension of your body and cultivating is as easy as brushing your teeth... Bob.
Sunny Meadow Farm
Bridgeton, NJ.
Talking of the speed of those tractors, I just found an old message from 2005 stating the farmall A and IH 140 were a bit too high geared. How fast do these go in thé lowest gear at part throttle?

Lova

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