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Post by daylilydude on Mar 20, 2019 4:39:57 GMT -5
Is there something that you really want that you think would make your gardening better/easier?
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Post by brownrexx on Mar 20, 2019 6:49:36 GMT -5
I pretty much have everything that I want or need but if I could have it with no work or expense - I would want a pretty fence, maybe an unpainted picket one, with a nice gate around the entire garden.
I currently fence half of the garden with a wire fence and have a "gate" that is just a folded over section of wire that moves.
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Post by hairymooseknuckles on Mar 20, 2019 8:00:50 GMT -5
Yes, a new back and good eyes.
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Post by paulf on Mar 20, 2019 8:39:28 GMT -5
Maybe a 10hp rear tine tiller. But then my 1970s front tine Sears 6hp won't quit so I just keep it until it blows up.
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Post by mgulfcoastguy on Mar 20, 2019 9:34:42 GMT -5
A new tiller or at least a working pull start.
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Post by pepperhead212 on Mar 20, 2019 9:36:20 GMT -5
A very young helper.
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Post by paquebot on Mar 20, 2019 10:22:16 GMT -5
Two good lungs, at least one good eye, and good back. Otherwise, no problem!
Martin
The truth is more important than the facts.
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Post by spike on Mar 20, 2019 12:41:05 GMT -5
OH if we are dreaming, I would love my very own Massey Ferguson tractor with a tiller attachment.
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Post by meandtk on Mar 20, 2019 12:49:30 GMT -5
I have a BCS tiller with a 9.5 hp Kohler. It is a workhorse. I agree with spike on the tractor with tiller. Make mine 4wd with FEL.
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Post by september on Mar 20, 2019 14:28:46 GMT -5
A good looking cabana boy type of helper to do all the heavy lifting, digging, carrying, pushing loaded wheelbarrows, so I could just plant, weed and water, the tasks I do enjoy. I have just about everything else I need.
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Post by hairymooseknuckles on Mar 20, 2019 15:11:38 GMT -5
OH if we are dreaming, I would love my very own Massey Ferguson tractor with a tiller attachment. Dat right ol gal. If'n it ain't red, leave it in da shed.
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Post by Hensaplenty on Mar 20, 2019 19:02:59 GMT -5
Several truck loads of wood chips. Not mulch, but wood chips that the tree cutters chip up. I am practically begging for them here with no success except for when we had some of our own trees cut down. :-(
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Post by coppice on Mar 21, 2019 4:28:55 GMT -5
I need need to cobble together a squirrel-proof hut-cloche-something to set out over on top of, the dozen odd pans of soon-to-be-set out nuts. Probably mostly made of hardware-cloth.
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Post by reubent on Mar 26, 2019 18:47:37 GMT -5
I could make a list of things, and the prices would soar to several hundred thousand dollars I'm sure. A good kubota orchard tractor is a good $60,000, a farari orchard tractor at least $25,000, a huge chipper and continuous process biochar making machine, don't know what that would cost. I'd add a nice new track hoe, komatsu PC200 would be about right. Rip those trees out, drop em in the tub grinder/chipper, run the chips through a drying and biochar process. Spitting out pulverize biochar by the truck load. Then give me a semi load each of calphos and azomite. (And a storage warehouse to put it in) I'd be in garden heaven real fast. Put in several acres of orchard and small fruits, get production going and sit back to enjoy watching everything grow. Build greenhouses for winter production, and then have a sort of campground so people can come help me harvest and eat it all. I'd have to invite people in that need help with their health, free health camp, just eat what is coming off the land and get well. Have a nice camp kitchen, hire a raw foody chef to fix the meals. I'm going too far now.
Since I don't have a cash cow or a goose that lays golden eggs, I'll just go at it piecemeal. I kan see the possibility of getting production up to a couple hundred thousand a year in gross produce sales though if I could get enough done.
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Post by carolyn on Mar 28, 2019 6:49:19 GMT -5
a mantis tiller.
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Post by carolyn on Mar 28, 2019 6:52:59 GMT -5
... Oh we have one of those although I doubt my dear husband would let me have at it. I was allowed to use the wheel loader for the years we owned it and I think I used it more than him. he sold it or traded it in on something and I sure do miss that thing. I loved the loader. I am kind of sad mad at myself for passing up a bcs chipper attachment last Spring. it was 500.00 and I was a worried I would need the money for something more important.
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Post by reubent on Mar 29, 2019 10:10:21 GMT -5
I co-own a PC 100, using it to clear land when I have it, it will go to the other owner soon for a time. And they threaten to sell it. So we'll see how long it stays around. I'd prefer to own one completely so it'd stay around full time. But it's such a wonderful aid in work, will do weeks of manual labor in an hour. I built a "thumb" for it and it will grab things and move them around, rip trees out and pile them up, dig out large boulders pick them up and set them somewhere else. But it's still it bit small to deal with larger trees real well, a slightly bigger one would be perfect. Trying to turn a few acres into orchard on a mountainside involves a lot of heavy material handling.
I use a troybuilt chipper shredder to grind biochar, it works fine. Have to remove the screen to do it when it's full of moisture from rain. But it still pulverizes it adequately. I'm going up now to run the trackhoe a little more and grind biochar.
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