permaculture

[Eric Kemp <erickemp01@yahoo.com>]

Hi....I live in the Chapel Hill area.....and I was wondering if you knew 
about the recyclery......it is in Carrboro and they salvage bikes and 
distribute them through town for people to use.....they call it the blue bike 
program....they also have a build a bike program for kids......the point 
is...they have a ton of parts and bikes that they wont ever use ....the guy 
who runs the place is nice and i dont know if he is exactly into permaculture 
but I would bet he would be into your project.......www.recyclery.info  they 
are there on sunday afternoons 12- 5....I would also be willing to volunteer 
some time to it myself ,if you are into that, as I have wondered about this 
type of thing ....if farm equipment could be pedal powered?????  
   
   
   
   
  
"Lawrence F. London, Jr." <lfl@intrex.net> wrote:
  
I need to construct a 4 wheeled device I can ride on, steer and pedal with an 
18 speed (maybe less)
gear train. I will mount adjustable-height static tillage tooling below the 
frame and drive this along
raised garden beds to scarify the soil and loosed existing weeds, prior to 
winter planting of spinach and a number of 
other crops. It will be too wet to get a tractor in the gardens until late 
Spring and I need to plant throughout January 
and February. All parts of the frame, except the tillage tool, will have to 
be at or above the height of the wheel 
axles. The 4 wheel bikes I have seen on the web are expensive and their 
frames are too low to the ground.

Any ideas or pointers to resources will be much appreciated, especially from 
anyone who has done any bicycle 
modifications or built human powered devices from recycled bike parts and 
components.

LL
-- 
Lawrence F. London, Jr.
Venaura Farm
lfl@intrex.net
http://market-farming.com
http://market-farming.com/venaurafarm
http://venaurafarm.blogspot.com/
http://www.ibiblio.org/ecolandtech


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