Recent content by creekshorefarms

I have made a bit of progress on the new 3pt attachment for the transplanter. The pipe that gets welded to the transplanter has been cut and holes drilled in it. I havn't welded it yet, but here it is with and without the centre tube. I was going to use the existing frame, but it is fairly...

I have a Holland transplanter I use for planting my seedlings and potatoes. I plant on raised beds and the only problem I have had is that I have been only able to plant a single row down the middle of each bed. This is fine for potatoes and squash, but I want to be able to plant two or three...

I am wondering if anyone here has ever taken a standard 10ft massey or international grain drill and narrowed it up to say 5ft or less? I plant all my vegetables on 4' wide beds and would love to be able to seed single rows of cover crop without having to do it by hand. I searched the forums...

Last night I attached the transplant marker and took it out for a test spin. Seems to work fairly well, but I had to make two passes to get it where I wanted it. I hadn't cultivated the soil in about a week or so and it has been really hot so the ground was quite dry. I find both the raised...

Well, we needed a second tractor in the same hp class as the Kubota L3200 to help with various tasks around the farm so we didn't always have to swap 3pt implements as well as for manure spreading. Been looking around for a while at various options and finally found this Ford 1710 and fell in...

Here are some pictures of my first attempt at making the raised beds. I had a bit of a hard time getting soil all the way to the centre of the bed, but a second pass over helped quite a bit. I added some old wheel weights I had lying around to the press pan and it helped with smoothing out...

The following are some photos of the raised maker all assembled. I made a bit of a mistake in how the press pan attaches to the toolbar and just need to make a longer attachment piece. It is hard to see from the photos but all it means is that the toolbar ends up sitting tipped back towards the...

The toolbar seen in the above post is made from 2x2x1/4" square tubing. This seems to be a common size most people use for making these. The unit is 5' wide and I have the square tubing set on 12" centres. The following are some photos of the press pan. I have not had too much time to take...

A little background: My wife and I own a small scale, commercial vegetable operation on 1ha or about 2.5acres. Given that we don't have a lot of room we generally need to plant things as close together as we can so that we can maximize the space we have, and we grow almost everything from...

While I am all for building my own equipment from sratch, sometimes you come across a deal you just can't pass up. I bought this row crop cultivator at an auction for $65, just because it was $65. It sat around for a while, but I wanted to plant some potatoes and was looking for an easy way to...

Hello! I am a small acreage vegetable farmer and am looking to buy a compact tractor to supplement my work with the Farmall A I have. I am currently debating between the Kubota B2920 and the B2630. I like some of the extra options the 2630 has, especially if I will be using the 3pt hitch...