8 shearpins later....

63DH8 · Apr 3, 2006

Hey Larry, I was told the same thing when I was in Germany. That too was hardly a third world country. In Saudi Arabia, they simply pumped raw sewage in a field and watered the surrounding veggies with the water from a well that's drilled in the center of that field. The solids are filtered by the earth, but the microbes tend to make it all the way into the veggies. The VA said I have hepititus, but they didn't say if it was from the gammagobin shots or from the food. To tell you the truth, I'm not sure if they can tell the difference.

Your idea for a the boxblade gives me an excuse to buy one.

pennwalk · Apr 3, 2006

It might be easier to buy a couple of truckloads of topsoil and do raised bed gardening there. Since your garden isn't too big you might find you like it better and it would be way easier than digging rocks.

Chris

Jstpssng · Apr 3, 2006

( It might be easier to buy a couple of truckloads of topsoil and do raised bed gardening there. )

That was my thought, also. On the other subject though, years ago I worked for a landscaper who put in a lot of lawns and raised bed veggie gardens. Her main source of "soil" was composted waste treatment sludge. Granted it wasn't as bad as what some of you have described; yet there are still toxics in that source which don't belong in the food chain.
JMHO.

SPIKER · Apr 4, 2006

that is where most sicy treatment plants get rid of their watse sludge make it into field fertalizer. the crops are greener in those dumping areas, but dont drink the water /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

I would look for a 2 or 3 bottom chisel plow spaced close to gether if you can pull it, or just 2 borttom one with heavy angled lifts to puick up the rcoks when hit making lots of passes...

markM

JimR · Apr 4, 2006

Do any of your neighbrs or farmers have a rock rake? It digs down into the ground when you pull it and sifts out the rocks. They get pushed up into a dump bucket and you can tow them away and dump them into a big pile. You will need a good size tractor to pull it. Google rock rake to see what I'm talking about.

bigtater · Apr 4, 2006

A subsolier should help bring them up. works wonders in my fields /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif

63DH8 · Apr 4, 2006

( A subsolier should help bring them up. works wonders in my fields /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif )

Last time I used my subsoiler, I pulled up my telephone cable.

63DH8 · Apr 4, 2006

( Do any of your neighbrs or farmers have a rock rake? It digs down into the ground when you pull it and sifts out the rocks. They get pushed up into a dump bucket and you can tow them away and dump them into a big pile. You will need a good size tractor to pull it. Google rock rake to see what I'm talking about. )

We're getting encrouched by citified folks around here. There's only myself and one other guy who has tractors around here, and he's just getting into tractors. His tractor is about as small as mine.