Video: Getting the vegetable garden ready

jperry507 · Apr 17, 2007

Thought you guys might like to see some New England ground breaking.

Here is a video of a friend plowing/discing my vegetable garden. He is on a Farmall 460. We were lazy and didn't extend the tires so we were only using 2 out of the three bottoms. The loader could have been taken off too, but it wasn't worth the effort for such a small patch. At the 3:04 minute mark is my recently purchased 1950 cub with cultivators. It runs great. I'll have to take a longer video of the cub soon and post that. The garden is about 60' x 100'.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvqUeF3AAGg

jinman · Apr 17, 2007

Cool video. I just kept thinking that's probably one of the easiest jobs that tractor has ever done. At some point in its life, it probably tilled acres and acres instead of just 1/3 acre. It sure made short work of your garden. What are you going to plant?

Coyote · Apr 17, 2007

Very cool! Loved the music! Nice break at work watching that, thanks!

schmism · Apr 17, 2007

seems like the speed at which you pull the disk is slow? I thought they work better at a slightly higher speed?

jperry507 · Apr 17, 2007

schmism said:
seems like the speed at which you pull the disk is slow? I thought they work better at a slightly higher speed?

Since it the ground was mostly fresh flipped sod it was a little rougher than a field that had been worked last year. He started off slow and picked up speed after the first pass, which I didn't get on video. If the field was bigger he'd have an easier time traveling at a faster speed.

jperry507 · Apr 17, 2007

jinman said:
Cool video. I just kept thinking that's probably one of the easiest jobs that tractor has ever done. At some point in its life, it probably tilled acres and acres instead of just 1/3 acre. It sure made short work of your garden. What are you going to plant?

The tractor belongs to a friend, but even he only bales 10-15 acres. I plant all of the regular new england garden veggies but grow lots of potatoes, corn beans, and peas. There is a turnip that grows in Westort, MA that was crossed over 100 years ago and has been grown by farmers ever since. I am going to try to grow for the first time this year. The turinp can grow to be the size of a melon. In addition to the garden in the video I have another garden with strawberries, and another with squash...plus some raised beds outside of my kitchen's door.

Besides my own consumption I give away veggies to family and friends. It is how I justify the purchase of tractors. The bigger the garden the bigger tractor that I can justify!

EddieWalker · Apr 17, 2007

Nice vidoe. It's fun to watch a tractor working!!!

Thanks,
Eddie

donais · Apr 18, 2007

really cool but did y'all see that firewood processor on that page holy cow that is cool YouTube - Firewood processor

hazmat · Apr 20, 2007

Thanks for the video. I grew up on both sides of you - First in Tiverton, RI and then Dartmouth, MA. My parent's are still in Dartmouth. Small world eh. My avatar (pic to the left) is my Dog on Cuttyhunk.

KentT · Apr 20, 2007

donais said:
really cool but did y'all see that firewood processor on that page holy cow that is cool YouTube - Firewood processor

The stationary one is cool -- the automatic splitting was as impressive as slicing off the sticks of firewood...

Did you see this one that was also on the page you linked. Portable (though huge) and has it's own loading grapple on a crane.

YouTube - Scholz-Holz: Säge-Spaltautomat in Aktion

They certainly do things differently over there!