Re: setting up a garden

Posted by Kerry on August 30, 2002 at 19:39:24 from (207.53.229.125):

In Reply to: setting up a garden posted by mark b on August 28, 2002 at 22:25:51:

Use the 2-bottom plow to break it up, then disc it to break up the clods and get it smooth. I made a home-made harrow to pull behind my disc out of 5 old tires, tied together in the shape of the olympic rings. If you have room to spread out, you can use the cultivators, I didn't see you list a bedder with them but if you have it the bedders and cultivators have to be set to match. Set them to match the tractor tires and each other, you don't want a tire running on top of the beds.

You'll have to lay out your garden so that the rows are the right distance apart to match the cultivators, so the planter will have to also match. Once you get them set, you'll never touch them again. Or, if you bought them all with the tractor, somebody may have already done it when they used them before.

I started out on my grandfather's Jubilee, it will do fine on a 2-bottom plow, and it's perfect for a garden. Just plow it deep the first time and get it nice and smooth, then the next few years all you'll have to do is run the disc over it and plant it. You probably won't have to plow it every year unless your soil gets compacted easily.

I don't think you'll ever pick up a round bale with your Ford, and if you do you'll probably mess up the hydraulics. When we had one, we used a bale mover that was sort of built like a little trailer, the forks hinged on the axle and you raised it with a winch. I eventually rigged a cable to go to the 3-point hitch with a pully system to raise it up so I didn't have to get off to crank the winch. There's also a type of bale mover called (at least around e. TX) a Tumble Bug. You lock the brakes, back up and it flips over and grabs a bale, then when you pull forward it gets back on the wheels. So you have a couple of choices, but not a fork that goes directly on the 3-point hitch.

Have Fun!
Kerry

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