Gardens/Equipment?  
       
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      Topic: Gardens/Equipment?
       
      Posted By: R.W
       Subject: Gardens/Equipment?
       Date Posted: 26 Jan 2011 at 3:22pm
       
      
        
          
	
Yall gou any pics of your past gardens and your garden/produce equiptment?
I have a produce stand and i sell sweet corn, tomatoes, cucumbers, zuchenie, peppers, watermelons, and pumpkins. I also grow radisheses, brochily, greenbeans, and ockra for just us.My olny piece of equipment is a craftsman self propelled rear tined tiller a rake and a couple hoes. Im hopeing to get a 2 wheel tractor or a small tractor to cultivate with and some other equiptment for my own opperation in sted of using my dads stuff. you know when your a kid you want your own line of equiptment. Thats enough about my stuff how about yours?
  ------------- In Search Of: 1958 Allis Chalmers D17 Diesel serial #9643D
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      Posted By: HagerAC
       
      Date Posted: 26 Jan 2011 at 3:54pm
       
      
        
          
	
Here is our workhorse, its a 1948 G we used to till the ground, and do some cultivating as we have 2 large gardens.  It is mostly used in the garden, and rarely goes to shows, but we do take it some. 
  ------------- 30+ A-Cs ranging from a 1928 20-35, to a 1984 8070FWA, Gleaner R52 
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      Posted By: wjohn
       
      Date Posted: 26 Jan 2011 at 6:23pm
       
      
        
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My family raises sustainably grown lettuce, radishes, cabbage, carrots, onions, tomatoes, okra etc. etc. Our hard clay is a challenge because crops frequently get drowned out in spring rains, but I'm hoping to do some ditching and bed shaping with a rotary plow. As I mentioned in the walk-behind post, we've got Gravely and BCS walkbehinds for gardening, and we also use several Earthway seeders to plant many crops. 
 
 I'm hoping to have my B ready to plow and cultivate corn for the summer after next. The WD mostly gets used for bush hogging and pulling out stuck vehicles... I'd love to plow with it, but the back rims are about shot. 
  ------------- 1939 B, 1940 B, 1941 WC, 1951 WD, 1952 CA, 1956 WD-45
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      Posted By: Steve in NJ
       
      Date Posted: 26 Jan 2011 at 6:26pm
       
      
        
          
	
I don't have a garden, but does a Garden Tractor quailfy in the equipment catagory? Boy, I've been havin' a ball plowing snow with this thing this year! This is the first year in a loooong time that I'm not minding the snow storms. And boy, we've been getting snow storms one right after another! Snowin' like crazy right now.... Steve@B&B 
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      Posted By: SHAMELESS
       
      Date Posted: 26 Jan 2011 at 7:23pm
       
      
        
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think we're gonna do the greenhouse gardening this year, gotta git it built yet, thinkin one about 30-40 ft long
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      Posted By: SHAMELESS
       
      Date Posted: 26 Jan 2011 at 7:24pm
       
      
        
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oh yeah..forgot to mention, the planter,cultivator,harvester will be my ole lady....oooops...i mean my loving wife!!
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      Posted By: Allen Dilg
       
      Date Posted: 26 Jan 2011 at 7:59pm
       
      
        
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   Hello R W     We have a 60' x150'  garden by the house, for vegatables, 20 fruit trees, and several BERRY patches.  We also rent 3+ acres next door for sweet corn squash, and pumpkins. We use almost all AC equipment D17 to haul manure  D15 to load it  D19D to plow and a 1200 field cultivator,  D10 with 2 row disk opener corn planter,  Allis G for cultivation and herbiside sprayer,   AC 5020 with 6'rototillerfor garden prep and 14" rear tine Sears tiller for rows.  also 175 AC with 904 haybine and 444 baler with 4  restored Allis hay racks, with all lumber cut from USED TELEPHONE POLES.
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      Posted By: Eldon (WA)
       
      Date Posted: 26 Jan 2011 at 8:19pm
       
      
        
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To start out I haul in manure with this
   
  
Then spread it with this 
  
  
Then till it in with these 
  
  
  
Then plant with this 
  
  
and maybe this if I get a hitch made for it 
  
  
Cultivate with this 
  
  
  
and harvest with this...sometimes 
  
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      Posted By: JohnThomas
       
      Date Posted: 27 Jan 2011 at 4:48am
       
      
        
          
	
Love those butternut squash! Wish mine would get that big! I have a Seaman Tiller on my WD. How deep do you go with yours on the veggie gardens? How thick you spread the muck? I'm wondering if I go too deep sometimes. No clay here..black sandy loam....built up over the years with mulch......red sand below that.  You sure have enuff equipment!!! 
  ------------- Life is short...Make haste to be kind
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      Posted By: CTuckerNWIL
       
      Date Posted: 27 Jan 2011 at 8:23am
       
      
        
          
	
  
  -------------  http://www.ae-ta.com" rel="nofollow - http://www.ae-ta.com   Lena 1935 WC12xxx, Willie 1951 CA6xx Dad bought new, 1954WD45 PS, 1960 D17 NF
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      Posted By: R.W
       
      Date Posted: 27 Jan 2011 at 8:42am
       
      
        
          
	
Charlie is that a wd or a wd45?
  ------------- In Search Of: 1958 Allis Chalmers D17 Diesel serial #9643D
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      Posted By: CTuckerNWIL
       
      Date Posted: 27 Jan 2011 at 8:46am
       
      
        
          
	
1954 WD45 with power steering.
  -------------  http://www.ae-ta.com" rel="nofollow - http://www.ae-ta.com   Lena 1935 WC12xxx, Willie 1951 CA6xx Dad bought new, 1954WD45 PS, 1960 D17 NF
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      Posted By: singingpig
       
      Date Posted: 27 Jan 2011 at 10:39am
       
      
        
          
	
High density seeder for salad greens...plants 20 rows in the same bed as my precision seeder plants 4 rows:
 
  
  Home made boom sprayer and 275 gal tank of hydrolyzed fish:  Booms are 35 feet wide total, so I can foliar feed 7 growing beds in one pass
 
   
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      Posted By: singingpig
       
      Date Posted: 27 Jan 2011 at 10:42am
       
      
        
          
	
Primary tillage...JD5020 with a 9-shank chisel plow
 
  
  Required safety equipment:
 
   
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      Posted By: singingpig
       
      Date Posted: 27 Jan 2011 at 10:48am
       
      
        
          
	
1948 G with a new Kubota 23hp diesel, live hydraulics, 12vdc, instrument cluster and key start. Uses 1-2 gallons of fuel for 8 hours of cultivating
 
  
  Business end of the G cultivating asparagus in March
 
   
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      Posted By: singingpig
       
      Date Posted: 27 Jan 2011 at 10:56am
       
      
        
          
	
Nelson 200 series Big Gun, I water about 6 acres with this.  I have 4 risers in a line E-W, just unclamp the gun, clamp on the plug, move to the next riser They are about 250ft apart giving a good overlap. Gun puts out a 220 foot radius if the wind isn't blowing lol. That's with a 1 inch nozzle, 350 gpm at 120 psi
 
  
  One of 2 , 880 foot long wheel lines. Waters about 1.5 acres/set. With both running, it doesn't take too long to get the watering done.
 
   
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      Posted By: R.W
       
      Date Posted: 27 Jan 2011 at 10:58am
       
      
        
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 What is the hp rateing of that G diesel? 
  ------------- In Search Of: 1958 Allis Chalmers D17 Diesel serial #9643D
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      Posted By: Coke-in-MN
       
      Date Posted: 27 Jan 2011 at 11:02am
       
      
        
          
	
Eldon : looks like rocks and houses grow good in your area also . How soon before them houses push you out from all that dust, noise, and complaints you don't get your food from the grocer where most people do . 
  ------------- Life lesson: If you’re being chased by a lion, you’re on a horse, to the left of you is a giraffe and on the right is a unicorn, what do you do? You stop drinking and get off the carousel.  
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      Posted By: singingpig
       
      Date Posted: 27 Jan 2011 at 11:05am
       
      
        
          
	
4 row precision seeder. In this photo I am using it with the clod pushers down on the 2 outside rows to cut furrows for onion transplants.  By using the seeder to cut furrows for my transplants, I know the row spacing is always proper for cultivating with the G
 
  
  Side view of seeder.  Clod pushers in front, dual disc openers, V-wheel tampers.  PTO turns vacuum pump which gives excellent singulation of seeds. I use it to seed everything from tiny herb seeds to winter squash.  By changing seed plates, and the gear ratio it will seed at anywhere from 1.5 inch to 6 feet spacing in the rows.  I usually set it to slightly overseed so 2-3 seeds drop instead of 1.
 
   
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      Posted By: singingpig
       
      Date Posted: 27 Jan 2011 at 11:10am
       
      
        
          
	
Ford 5030 62hp 4WD tractor. I use it for seeding and spraying, discing, packing etc.  Also use the loader for just about anything you can imagine. 2400lb capacity so unloading totes of feed is a breeze. Old 8 foot spring tooth harrow on the back
 
   
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      Posted By: singingpig
       
      Date Posted: 27 Jan 2011 at 11:13am
       
      
        
          
	
Steve, that is sweet looking. Here is my 1st ever tractor. A Case195. Used it when I was still farming 1.5 urban acres in PDX.  Was perfect for getting right up to the wall in my greenhouses.
 
  
 
  
  
  Steve in NJ wrote:
  I don't have a garden, but does a Garden Tractor quailfy in the equipment catagory? Boy, I've been havin' a ball plowing snow with this thing this year! This is the first year in a loooong time that I'm not minding the snow storms. And boy, we've been getting snow storms one right after another! Snowin' like crazy right now.... Steve@B&B 
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      Posted By: singingpig
       
      Date Posted: 27 Jan 2011 at 11:14am
       
      
        
       
      
      Posted By: singingpig
       
      Date Posted: 27 Jan 2011 at 11:22am
       
      
        
          
	
7 foot wide Maschio B series tiller. Almost never gets used.  As my soil has improved through proper management, chisel, disc and cultipacker gives a perfect seedbed in a fraction of the time using a fraction of the fuel.  This thing is a beast, though.  It gets most of its use grinding in cover crops and crop residue before chiseling or discing.
 
  
  Wind guage so I know how to set the irrigation:
 
  
 
  
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      Posted By: singingpig
       
      Date Posted: 27 Jan 2011 at 11:27am
       
      
        
          
	
Walk behind, battery powered greens harvester for using with the high density seeder:
 
  
  A field of lettuce I harvested several times over a month, then let go to see.  In this .2 acre there were 100,000s of lettuces with flower stalks 4 feet high...this is after just 1 pass with the Maschio tiller...now it is all worm food.
 
   
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      Posted By: singingpig
       
      Date Posted: 27 Jan 2011 at 11:33am
       
      
        
          
	
pallet of product ready to be loaded into the truck for delivery
 
  
 
   
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      Posted By: Brad VB
       
      Date Posted: 27 Jan 2011 at 1:39pm
       
      
        
          
	
Here's a few pictures of my single row planter 
 
  
 
 
  
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      Posted By: singingpig
       
      Date Posted: 27 Jan 2011 at 2:02pm
       
      
        
          
	
Brad,
  How come your soil is so white and cold looking? 
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      Posted By: MikeSMN
       
      Date Posted: 27 Jan 2011 at 8:08pm
       
      
        
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Mr. Singing Pig - what brand precision seeder do you have there?
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      Posted By: singingpig
       
      Date Posted: 27 Jan 2011 at 8:51pm
       
      
        
          
	
  MikeSMN wrote:
  Mr. Singing Pig - what brand precision seeder do you have there? |  
 
  Matermacc.  Works like a dream. 
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