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Posted by john in la on March 04, 2005 at 06:01:04 from (65.6.119.181):
Since we had a few days with out rain I saw the sugar cane farmers in the fields this week. They were cleaning and building ditches for water/rain removal. They were using 2 things I have seen many times. One is a backhoe on wheels. Looks like a track hoe but has a high center thing on wheels to go down crop rows.
The other is a pto driven dirt thrower. You drive across the rows and this thing cuts a ditch (about 8 to 12 in wide) but throws the dirt in the air so it distributes the dirt over the field and not next to the ditch.
I have seen both of these many times but this one farmer had a ditch cleaner I have never seen before. It looked like a very large middle buster. Do not know if it was store bought or farm made as I was going by at 50 mph and could only see the results and not the implement. But anyway the tractor was straddling a large ditch and this thing was cutting/cleaning a ditch about 3ft deep and about 4ft wide. Just wondering if any one has seen such a implement before. As a side note...... Get ready Spring is on the way. The gulf water 50 miles off the coast is already 70 deg and I noticed the blackberries bushes around here are in full bloom already.
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