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Re: [Market-farming] Harvest cart - Crawler or Drangen
- From: "MAsteveINE" <MAsteveINE AT 207me.com>
- To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Harvest cart - Crawler or Drangen
- Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2011 08:04:22 -0400
Mechanical harvest (last time I checked) required that the crop be seeded, herbacides applied and them rolled to flatten and
compress the surface as
any loose or rough soil would be sucked up by the
harvester and ruin the product
IOW no cultivation or running about out there
setting irrigation pipe.
Then, for a few bushels at a time the problem
becomes finding crew enough to run the
machine for a few minutes is as difficult as
finding hand pickers for hours.
Ive always had to do stoop labor on hands and
knees, and now have peas on
"fence" and a Harbor Freight seat on wheels for
doing lots of picking and
transplanting; both in field and greenhouse. DB, on
the other hand, was an
excellent bean and cucumber picker 60 years ago and
these days will bend
for chores all afternoon without complaint.
Pole beans (Fortex) here get a strip of black
plastic mulch with drip tube; 8 foot
wood posts driven in 10 feet appart, a run of
smooth wire at the top and another
a few inches from the ground. Round baler twines
run from wire to wire; seeding
3 seeds at 6 inch spacing thinned to 2 plants is
excessive, have a planting of
one plant per foot which looks like it will be
easier to work in.
MAsteveINE
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I would be interested in any ergonomy tips people may have about picking beans. Personally, beside hiring someone to do it, I am considering two strategies: growing pole beans, and getting a mechanized bean harvester. |
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[Market-farming] Harvest cart - Crawler or Drangen,
Jen and Derek Campbell, 08/22/2011
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Re: [Market-farming] Harvest cart - Crawler or Drangen,
Etienne Goyer, 08/22/2011
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Re: [Market-farming] Harvest cart - Crawler or Drangen,
Marlin Burkholder, 08/22/2011
- Re: [Market-farming] Harvest cart - Crawler or Drangen, Richard Robinson, 08/22/2011
- Re: [Market-farming] Harvest cart - Crawler or Drangen, Aaron Brower, 08/22/2011
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Re: [Market-farming] Harvest cart - Crawler or Drangen,
MAsteveINE, 08/23/2011
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[Market-farming] Pole beans (was Harvest cart - Crawler or Drangen),
Richard Robinson, 08/23/2011
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Re: [Market-farming] Pole beans (was Harvest cart - Crawler or Drangen),
MAsteveINE, 08/25/2011
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Re: [Market-farming] Pole beans (was Harvest cart - Crawler or Drangen),
Richard Robinson, 08/25/2011
- Re: [Market-farming] Pole beans (was Harvest cart - Crawler or Drangen), Vern and Amy, 08/26/2011
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Re: [Market-farming] Pole beans (was Harvest cart - Crawler or Drangen),
Richard Robinson, 08/25/2011
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Re: [Market-farming] Pole beans (was Harvest cart - Crawler or Drangen),
MAsteveINE, 08/25/2011
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Re: [Market-farming] Harvest cart - Crawler or Drangen,
SA, 08/23/2011
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[Market-farming] Beans (was: Re: Harvest cart - Crawler or Drangen),
Etienne Goyer, 08/23/2011
- Re: [Market-farming] Beans (was: Re: Harvest cart - Crawler or Drangen), Deb Taft, 08/23/2011
- Re: [Market-farming] Beans (was: Re: Harvest cart - Crawler or Drangen), Sean Albiston, 08/23/2011
- Re: [Market-farming] Beans (was: Re: Harvest cart - Crawler or Drangen), Richard Stewart, 08/23/2011
- Re: [Market-farming] Beans (was: Re: Harvest cart - Crawler or Drangen), Roots Farm, 08/23/2011
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[Market-farming] Beans (was: Re: Harvest cart - Crawler or Drangen),
Etienne Goyer, 08/23/2011
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[Market-farming] Pole beans (was Harvest cart - Crawler or Drangen),
Richard Robinson, 08/23/2011
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Re: [Market-farming] Harvest cart - Crawler or Drangen,
Marlin Burkholder, 08/22/2011
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Re: [Market-farming] Harvest cart - Crawler or Drangen,
Etienne Goyer, 08/22/2011
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