No-Till Tools: Duds and Studs of 2019
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spoken as a novice no-dig grower: the most helpful video in the community this year! appreciate your content man!
What an awesome thing to hear! Thank you 🙏
Thank you for your honesty. Working the soil is a very personal experience.
This is one of my favorite CZcams channels. Bravo!! I always look forward to your content and delivery. Thank you🙏🏾
I've never seen a soil block-making tool before this video. After researching a little, I think I'm done using the old plastic tray system. Thanks for the tip!
Great information! I'm still tilling and hoping to learn the no-tilling methods...your videos are very helpful!
Thank you and so great to hear they are helpful!
Great video! 7:00 Working backwards, cultivating or harvesting, is very effective. The psychological benefit is you see how much you have accomplished, not fret about how much is left to do! A favorite tool of mine is a sod lifter. It has a long wooden D-handle and a half-moon/kidney-shape blade, that, in use, runs parallel to the surface, used to cut turf. This tool is excellent for cutting weed roots just below the surface and maintaining a dust mulch. It can be turned to chop vertically, also.
Hey, not sure if you've thought of this but a cheap crimper can be made by attaching a T-post to a short 2*4 and tying a rope to each side. You can then easily pull up on the rope and step forward on the 2*4, crimping the crop as you go. Hope it's helpful.
The info on the different seeders was interesting. Another awesome vid Jesse!
Thanks, Neil! Gonna trial a few more seeders in the near future, too, but hard to imagine anything beating the Jang. It’s just immaculate
Used the zipper to hill up potatoes too, really like it for that. Also for hand seeding in beds where the mechanical seeder just doesn't ever seem to work well - used it to plant beans, cukes, carrot seed tape, and a few other things.
Like your way of getting er done.
Thanks for showing me the DIY
1:50 Gridder - YAY!
2:50 Flame Weeder - MEH?
4:05 Steel weed wacker - YAY!
4:52 Flail mower for BCS, lowered - YAY
6:04 4-row pinpoint seeder - DUD!
6:30 Jang seeder - YAY! Perfect for carrots
6:47 Earthway Seeder - YAY! for beans, corn, cover crops, etc
7:40 Paper Pot System - Still trialing
9:47 Zipper - YAY! for quickly hilling up potatoes or corn, or adding amendments next to tomato plants
10:37 Cell trays - MEH
10:42 Winstrips - YAY for cucumbers, squash, broccoli, kale (not for lettuce)
11:04 35-block Soil blocker - YAY!
11:17 4-block Soil blocker - MEH - 7 times slower than 35-block soil blocker -
12:10 Spot weeder? YAY! for pathways and flipping beds before you can get a flail mower.
Great work! Love your yt channel and the podcast. Y'all are inspiring and I appreciate another farmer who likes to continually experiment, critique, and learn on their farm. In that regard youve inspired me to try some no till beds on my farm and the results so far have been awesome. But yeah back to your question my top 10 fave tools are;
1- tractor w/loader
2- flail mower
3- coolbot/ac
4- jang/earthway seeder
5- homemade vacuum seeder
6- landscape fabric
7- hoss wheel hoe
8- tiller (if im being honest)
9- 3" stirrup hoe
10- 5 gallon salad spinner
And above them all... the computer(with a decent wifi connection 😋)! cause knowledge is power! thx for all the great info and content youve shared. It keeps us going in the hot dog days of summer. Cheers
Thanks and thanks for sharing these. The Coolbot in particular! Such a great tool! What a lifesaver.
I have an old 6 foot Ford Flail Mower and it has been an absolute monster! Whether I'm cutting 30 acres of 5 foot tall grass or running over a whole bunch of tree branches that have fallen, it handles it all without any issues. I had so many squash bugs on my zucchini this year so I made sure they all met the flail mower as well once my plants started to die :)
I always enjoy your videos, and you remind me of Dug the dog from Up, in a very good kind of way. Also, I was driving from San Antonio to East Texas today, and had 6 hours to listen to podcasts. I started with the interview of you and your wife. You are both informative and inspirational. Then was teased by hints of an incredible story about egg plants. So that lead me to the podcast with Namu Farms. Which did not disappoint. Actually everything in the Namu Farms episode was fascinating. I also listened to the episode with Natures Always right, and the one with Jared's real foods. Everyone was a winner. Not only are they filled with helpful information that can be used by both hobbyist and business owners, they are also entertaining. Also, a lot of the business specific advice would be good for any business sector. Thanks for making my day.
I love Up! That’s hilarious. My kid would be proud. So glad you liked the podcast. Season two coming up shortly!
We use Dutch white clover for our pathways and really like it. Suppress weeds really well and doesn't wash away. Plus all the benefits of having clover in the garden system. Some issues with bed creep but its been easy enough to hoe it out of beds when needed, usually wheneverwe flip a bed we will hoe it back a bit. I will say you need to mow it fairly often which can become a hassle when its growing quickly in July and August. But here in the UK it works well with our rain. Might be worth a trial there in KY.
I may try a little of this next year. I know it’s inviting a little chaos but I would love to see how it would work for the soil health.
glad to hear you're having success with white clover paths. I just seeded one of my paths with clover seed as a trial. My one concern in addition to the bed creep is that other grasses would take advantage of the clover cover and hide amongst the clover. I'm worried it will eventually turn all the foot paths back to perennial sod which is forever encroaching from the perimeter of my garden
My one indispensable tool is a Makita BLDC brushcutter. I've hacked it to operate from a large portable battery which gives it about 4 hours of continuous operation; it then recharges from the farm solar installation. Apart from the fact that it's "free" to run (it's generally charging at midday when there's a lot of surplus power from the PV panels and everyone's taking a lunchbreak), it performs a whole load of jobs on the farm with (at worst) a blade change, from managing perennial groundcover, through to soil preparation (similar to the method you describe in the video), and keeping paths etc clear and healthy. A close second would be the electric chainsaw, which runs from the same battery and is an absolute must-have for maintaining all our trees and shrubs; the trimmings generate the bulk of our compost.
Love to see new uses for old tools. This is the reason we are so hesitant to "lean out" the tool shed. You never know how you might think of using a tool in a way that it was not necessarily designed for. We also have a 4 row flamer that is gathering dust. Will try flaming after mowing as well as lowering the flail mower roller bar.
Right!? this is a great point. I guess in lean if you needed it you would just buy it back, but I am always changing my methods so the uses of my tools are always changing as well. Then I come up with a new whim (like the cauterizing of the greens after a mowing) and am glad I haven’t gotten rid of the flame weeder so I can try it!
Flaming after mowing/weed whacking has been awesome for us, especially if we can throw a tarp on that bed for a day or two afterwards - you get a gorgeous planting surface for the next crop. (We use a single flame weeder with the Neversink hood, takes two passes to cover the whole bed)
Great stuff!
We had a whole-sale bedding plant operation for 30 years. Now at 71, I'm desiging and building seeders for the market and greenhouse growers.My tomato trellis system needs more work. The weight of the grafted big beef plants collapsed the current design.
Hey! Bought one of your IMP Seeders a few years ago. Still using it to this day :) Thanks for the great product!
Love your seeders Doug!
Thanks guys. My customers are the greatest.
I use strips of used carpet I get for free from an install company for my walkways. Roughly 1/2 the walkspace is covered and I slide them back and forth every 2-3 weeks. I only have a 1200 sq family garden so idk how scalable it is but not having to disturb the soil, especially on the edges of the beds is nice.
This is my new favorite YT channel!
Thank you, what an awesome thing to hear!
Great info jesse
I just got a bed roller this season and it really improved the effectiveness of my 4pt seeder. Tamps down the soil a bit.
Mind u, the compost i use is heavier stuff then your bark dust product.
2nd the stand up soilblock maker
Other great tool has been a wheel cart. Stradles the beds and can lay down 2x compost as wheelbarrow, (had to upgrade bearings and get fatter tires). If i could add an e-assist to propel wheels I'd be a happy farmer
yeah. I tried the bed roller but to no avail. A wheel cart is a cool addition! We use the barrows, but I’d like something a little more practical at some point. For sure.
Yes wood chippers are loud and stinky but I loved pulling it down my row and running my cornstalks and sunflower stalks through it and blowing the chips right back on the beds for winter mulch. Easy peezy.
hey, about woodchippers i found a lot more practical to rent a big one in which you can make all your needs in one day than buying a small one, thx for your content, love it
Better yet, mention that you need woodchips to an arbourist and watch your yard fill up with chips until you have to shoo him away with a shovel!
I have never thought of renting one--†hat’s a great idea! And I wish I could get my local arborists to come back here and pester me. We’ve chased every truck down in the county. Only one came back and I have never seen them again.
I have tree guys drop at my house and farm but sometimes i do have some piles of wood that need chipped for whatever reasons and i rent a big pull behind like the tree guys have.
@@notillgrowers Yeahhhh I have signed up for those chip-drop programs and harassed tree crews for a couple years and never had any luck at all. In my area the county and utility company are under contract to dump their woodchips off at a private company, which then sells some as-is, double-grinds some for sale, composts some with other greener material for sale, etc. But a two-cubic-yard pickup load of the coarse single cut "arborist" chips is "only" $35 from them, so for my small scale garden that's still a better deal than any other retailer. If you need a semi-load from a similar concern, perhaps one could negotiate a better price, but that could still add up to a lot for a whole acre's worth or more. There is a youtuber called I Am Organic Gardening who says he actually gets *paid* to let his county dump truckloads of leaves on his property; that might very well be worth looking into.
@@dystopiagear6999 in the fall I roll through the older neighborhood and pick up the leave that are bagged for pick up by the city.
I have a 20 year old wood chipper that I bought for 15. dollars. A harbor freight model and thought I would use it to chip 2-3” logs. No good at all for wood. I now use it to mulch leaves to make compost. Turns the leaves in to use able compost in seconds instead of a year or so. Best thing since sliced bread !!
Just subscribed. Love all you regenerative farmers and your information for those of us dreaming of doing the same.
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... I didn’t know that the actor, Jim Caviezel, was an awesome farmer in his spare time... I’m an idiot, I know.
Thank you for the learning!
Have a great day.
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I watched one of the bigger youtuber farmers hard sell the paper-pot transplanting system about 3 years ago, and then just randomly he did a video recently on something unrelated, but showed himself putting transplants in the ground and he no longer was using it. I think whoever made that system gave a really good referral bonus to those guys and got a lot of traction for the product, but it looks like it is way more trouble than it is worth.
Love the ego line of battery powered yard tools. only one I have is the self loading string trimmer but I want them all. It can be converted to metal blades like in your video. Don’t have to remove head to add string, it’s quiet, on/off at pull of a trigger, and never have to fuss with gas/oil.
2nd that
My Ego powerhead string trimmer is almost as powerful as the Shindawa unit i used to brush trails with but without the smoke, vibration and screaming noise.
I use my Ego mower to clear beds too, a 2" pass followed by a dethatcher blade leaves a clean bed.
On a side note, their 16" chainsaw works well, i cut a couple cords of 12" diameter larch last fall. Keep it inside the cab w/o gas smell, lube w canola oil so it's food safe should i need to quarter a moose in the field.
Ego hedge trimmers are better then plug in
Clear snow w the leaf blower
Ego stuff is awesome, now i wish they made a battery powered wheel barrow and a powerhead adapter for my tilther
Hey Jesse, can you do a video strictly about farm gloves? I think it'd be so usefull to have the comment section full of obscure glove brands that people are trying out! It's still the one 'tool' that every farmer is looking to improve I'd think
my weed whip is my go to for keeping the green aisle clean and knock down the weeds as I use hay for mulch.
One of this year's focus's has been to try to improve the quality and consistency of the baby greens. We built 20 more irrigation rainbirds with miniwobblers and run them on a digg timer (for ten minutes on the hour during the peak heat and overnight if they actually need a drink). I put the narrow shoes on my jp3 (we have 4 hoppers and do three passes on a 36" bed) and this has greatly improved the tool and I no longer have to rake before I seed. We also started using the protek bug netting and have found its great to work with. I had read cabbage moth could lay eggs through it if it was in contact with the crop. This hasn't been my experience, no hoops and no problems (so far at least). So those are the new tools around here, I think I got all of it from nolt's.
Im interested in the flail and flame combo. I'd like to get to the point where I'm rotating from cover crop to greens to two years of strawberries without primary tillage. So three years before primary tillage, and perrenial weed control. Thinking about using broilers to get out of greens but I have no real experience with this. If anyone does I'd love to hear from you. I'm confident there are pitfalls I'm not thinking of. Even if the birds get me out of greens I'd need to seed something to hold the nitrogen until spring berry planting. So no shortage of problems to solve, haha.
Thanks for the video. I think eliminating tillage will never be in the cards for me. But your channel is great for breaking me out of my normal thought process and helping me to think creatively.
@William Roach I share your concerns about the crust that develops on unprotected tilled soil. I wouldn't draw the same conclusions though. For me the challenge becomes protecting the soil once it's been disturbed. Also of course, it's good to be very diliberate about how and when you do disturb the soil. For me it becomes a matter of soil resiliency, how can I feed and care for the soil life so when I do disturb the soil their populations recover quickly? Tillage is a technique that has some advantages and I'd hesitate to take it completely off the table on my farm. My chief hesitation about fully adopting the no till systems I've seen to date, is they seem to either rely on a chemical approach or a lot of physical labor. I'm not interested in grinding my body down anymore then I already have and I plan on farming into old age. All this being said the ethic around here is to disturb the soil as little as possible and so if we are improving our methods we should be getting closer and closer to no till every year.
Hey David! Great as always to hear from you. We just got proteknet too to trial! My goodness is that stuff expensive, but it immediately feels so much more durable and robust than the ag-15. I will say that I got it because I wanted something that wouldn’t hold in heat, but that seems a little naive as it does hold in a little. Any cover would in reality. But certainly it holds in less than the ag-15 from agribon.
The pitfall with chickens is that you will have to reshape after they clear a bed, but I have heard they can be fairly effective. Check my buddy Josh Sattin’s channel--I think he did a video on bed flips with chickens.
That’s great to hear about breaking out of the normal thought process. That to me is kinda the goal. I don’t expect everyone to kick tillage entirely, but hopefully we can all together find some new and different techniques to reduce it, and with it our labor, our weeds, disease, etc..
Love the jang and stirrup hoe. Used it a bunch for flipping beds then planting into a new layer of compost on top. They key was to keep it sharp ;) thanks for this vid!
Interested in trying the weed whacker to clear salad greens since it takes so long to do by hand. Question: once you've gone through with the weed whacker, do you seed the next crop directly into the chopped up plant matter? Maybe you're topping off with compost so that creates the nice seed bed. We don't typically add compost between each bed flip, and we use the Earthway or 4-point seeder, so we need a relatively clean bed. Usually we pull the lettuce by hand (including roots), give it a light hoeing, and rake flat. Any idea for how to clear lettuce/baby greens quickly and be left with a bed that's suitable for a quick raking and seeding?
Love my jang so much, but it can’t do corn, destroys the corn seed. I have to use the earth way for corn. The stirrup hoe is my favorite tool too, we do a lot of that here in Hawaii. Our weeds grow much faster than anywhere I have seen in the mainland. Loving your videos and energy, mahalo for sharing your knowledge 🤙🌈
Thanks for all your videos. Super helpful.
Every no till channel talks about broad forks as a must have. What are your thoughts?
The Jang! I started this season trying to figure out how to better seed carrots. I was thinking maybe pelleted carrots using the Earthway (asked about it in the awesome No-Till growers forum!) could work. No it didn't work, not even a little. After hand seeding a couple of 25' beds (had to get those carrots in!) I ordered the Jang. Wow. Just wow! Perfect spacing, less seed waste, easy to use, time saver. Also the Jang is just more robust. I've been at this awhile and can't remember another tool I've been so impressed with, definitely worth the investment! And yes every farm needs at least a couple of stirrup hoes! Definitely one of my go to tools! Thanks for all the content!
Right!? That thing is amazing and yeah the earthway does not do well with the pelleted seeds. My word is it awful. Alex Ekins was spot on on that thread haha!
I've had repeatedly lousy germination using pelleted carrots. Pellet anything else is great, sure wish they worked better, carrots a crop that could really use it
Very creative
My biggest tool fail was buying a broadfork from a manufacturer here in Australia. Didn't realise until I started using it- I hated it. Round metal tines bent after the first use, and weren't as easy to push into the ground as "blade-shaped" tines. And intead of having two vertical risers for the handles, which allows for ergonomic levering, I bought one that had a horizontal bar connecting the two risers, which during normal use would want to bump your chest during the lever motion.
I went out and bought a high quality garden fork, and no matter how much I "broadfork" my dense clay soil with it, it doesn't bend. A darn sight easier to carry around, too. 😊😊😊
Oh dang. Bummer story. And clay can be a beast. Sorry to hear that broadfork fail.
Crimper
Maybe something like the row marker with close serated edges. Fit the handle frame row marker 2,3,4 then the 36 or something like that.
I have a small cheap electric chipper. It works fine for me. The great thing is that it compresses trees and branches.
I assume you would want to run stuff you want to compost through one. It should speed up the composting process.
I suddenly realized that a weedwhacker could also do this. Perhaps somewhat badly.
I would probably even run dried manure through it if I had not collected it from a gravel road.
I think it was in one of Living Web Farm's videos that I saw demonstration of a foot operated crimper. Essentially it was just a board with a couple of strings tied onto the ends so you could lift it without bending over, and you stepped on the board, moved it a few inches and stepped again. There's probably some trick to the angles and size of the board to focus enough pressure to make an effective crimp, but on a small scale, it really does get that simple ;)
Heck yeah! Gonna try this as well. Frith farm uses this technique and I think it’s super brilliant and simple. They then cover with a tarp then plant.
I use the Jang for beans and corn. Works great. I use it for everything but squash.
Good to know! Would like to try those rollers
what roller are you using? I've tried the N6 roller and it jams and skips a lot
We do plow and till. That being said this is our equipment list. We have a Craftsman garden tractor with a 26 horsepower Kohler V-Twin wheel weights, chains forward push plow and,A sleeve hitch that accommodates a 10-inch mold plow. And a 420cc lawn tractor. A tow behind grass and lawn sweeper for yard waste mulch , star aerator, towable broadcast spreader, push drop spreader. A 26in inch 5 horsepower MTD forward tine tiller chain drive. We have a 10-inch mantis. A Toro commercial weed eater with .95 hex line. Two 12 ft3 dump carts and a 20v Black and Decker oscillating weeder/cultivator. And of course a selection of shovels and cultivators, turning Forks and a hoe. Various hand spades and forks. Finally, buckets....
Buckets are key haha. I am super interested in collecting yard waste. Might buy a mower with a bag next year as our next big piece of farm machinery haha!
Good overview. Thank you. Do you have any thoughts on the tither (from Johnny's), in a no-dig-environment?
It seems to be used by many market gardeners? Coming from a no-till perspective, I would like to omit such a tool, but on the other hand, it will only be used on the top 1 inch, and that one inch of fine soil might be necessary for direct seeding, especially small seeds like carrots, lettuce, radishes...
I guess, one could always add more fine compost prior seeding, but this seems to be a waste of time and resources, since re-composting is not necessary with every be rotation.
Love your videos, always great content. We do a lot of cover crops between production and so far I’ve been doing the weed wack and flame weed process. I’ve been thinking about a crimper myself, but it’s not an easy thing to find a push crimper. I’m thinking something along the line of a hand push sod roller with crimper blades on it. Haven’t fully figured out how I’m going to fabricate it yet, but some sort of barrel with the blades welded on that you can fill with water for weight and then empty in the off season for storage. I’d love to see/hear your thoughts on a crimper for your application. Keep up the great stuff!
Yeah, I have thought a lot about this. They make a crimper for the BCS but I’ve not heard much about it. Jadnricek talked about it a bit in our episode but wasn’t super enthusiastic. I also though about modifying my johnnys bed roller and literally having someone stand on it! We’ll see... and keep you updated!
I was thinking about a human-pushed roller crimper design to kill cereal rye. What about taking one of those water-filled lawn rollers and welding on angle-iron pieces to make the chevron pattern? www.costway.com/heavy-duty-poly-push-tow-lawn-roller-poly-roller.html?fee=51&fep=10042&gclid=CjwKCAjw44jrBRAHEiwAZ9igKAdC58Uya6ROX_guH6rHuMWn5PcNp6yJJqgx61vPpG0pyy5tBJpd9xoC7pYQAvD_BwE
I have a Wallenstein pto chipper for my Kubota - bigger than I could get for the BCS. It has still proven very difficult and time consuming to generate significant quantities of chips. So the chipper is on the market.
Good to know! Thank you
If you want to prevent rust to a large degree without having to oil/spray tools all the time, *let* them get rusty, brush off any loose rust with a wire brush, get you a big kettle or tub of water boiling and leave the rusty tools in the boiling water for 15 minutes or so. The heat will chemically convert plain red rust into a tougher dark grey oxide that resists the elements much better. There may be some loose rust/scale left on the tool afterwards, which again you can knock off quickly with a wire brush... and you're done. It's not as effective as say, ceramic powder coating but it helps a lot. This is a real basic variation on an old school technique known as "rust bluing." You will still need to lubricate/oil hinges, pivots etc on moving parts. This method is practical for basically any steel part for which you have a container big enough to submerge it in, and if you are willing to spend the energy to boil the corresponding amount of water.
Does this Manual jang seeder can be used for multi cover crop seeding ,is it workable on no till lañd where soil is bit compact
Thanks! Always happy that you share what doesn't work. Much appreciation.
I love my scythe. Took a while to really learn it but it's so much easier than the vibration of the Wacker. That said I haven't had a successful full bed of thick stem broccoli to try it on. It does great on woody weeds but there root system is probably much stronger in heavyer soil than a broccoli crop.
It's wonderful for a cover crop but you do have to re-spread the cuttings so it's an extra step compared to a crimper.
Happy Sunday.
REALLY want to try some scything next year. I don’t love the noise of the scythe. Thanks for the comment!
@@notillgrowers if you don't have a snath I highly recommend this one. www.lehmans.com/product/scythe-kits/
It's adjustable.
I especially like it for mowing a path for my electronetting through brush.
Thanks so much for the info ! What state & part of that state, are you in ?
What kind of shoes are those shown in the soil block making part? Crocs are great but mulch/chips always end up in there..
I have a Bio 150 wood chipper for the bcs, it can handle anything 3in in diameter and less. The first year I made about 10 yards of woodchips, and ever since then its just been less because its a lot of work and you need a lot of material to chip.
Thanks, James! Great to know
Have you considered using wool mulch? Like just straight sheep fleeces in the pathways?
I wish there were more walking tractor manufacturers in North America, as far as my research can tell there were 3, then one went out of business, now it's BCS and Tillmor (can't remember the name of the company that went out of business), beyond that pretty well every piece of walking power equipment is purpose built to one thing (sweep, or till, or cultivate, or ditchwitch, or whatever). I think a major hold back for a lot of people who have yards who don't want to start a hobby farm is really just the manual labor, which of course, you can't escape it completely, but I'm all about doing the same job with less effort (and less bending over).
Have you tried sawdust for paths? It creates a solid mat over the soil and works well here in Japan for me where we get some heavy summer rains.
We haven’t yet but I bet I could track some down! Thanks for the tip
Would love to hear the crimping system you come up with. Im not finding many tools other than the pull behind roller crimper for tractors. I did see 1 roller crimper for a BCS, but thats a huge investment for that combo.
For sure. If you don’t already own a bcs it would be insanely expensive. Will keep you updated on what I figure out this spring.
If you can find a rotary brush/ sweeper to go on the BCS , it might work to go up and down the paths ..
Failing that a little home made triple k harrow ,to just tickle the paths
Great video! Stirrup hoes are lifesavers!
Man that soil blocker rocks
Right!? I love it. It blew my mind and soil blocks are just so much easier than cells to plant. And so much more robust.
Will the steel weed whacker still do a good job turning over brassicas?
good info; thanks.
There is a video by the pest and lawn ginja comparing wood chippers that I recommend checking out
I'm trying that weed waker got to get one
hmm, i wish i'd seen this before i bought the zipper; i haven't used it yet, but saw it's benefit in theory. i hope it proves itself useful. i want a jang, have an earthway; it's served me well, but i'm trying to play semi-pro now. i'm wondering if i can make my own spacing thingie? i'll have to make some $$ as a semi-pro before i can spend the dough. like your style, keep it up!
Hi just trying to find the soil block maker u have oh well
What the tool shown with that rollers and cut vegetation
Have you used Johnny’s SIX-ROW seeder? Any wisdom on that one?
8 hp mulcher chipper combo I'm collecting neighbors leaves and it great for that but lousy for chipper jobs not big enough for anything over 2.5 inches isn't worth the effort except leaves and small 1 inch limbs and my mulch was great for my peppers so I'll use it again for 3 inches of combine equally leaves grass clipping and garden waste
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Can you tell me what roller did you use for the Jang when you seed carrots? Also, what was the front sprocket and back sprocket set at for your spacing? What was your spacing, 1 carrot every two inches? What type of carrot? Sorry for all the questions.
Patrick Pittman fwiw I like the x12 roller for most carrots, (Napoli is my go-to variety for fall/winter) and either 9, 14 sprockets or 9, 13 but you have to be careful about rollers with different sizes of carrot seeds as they can vary greatly. I use mj12 roller for very large carrot seeds (older, more wild types like black nebula) and f12 for medium. There may be better rollers but I have had great success with these for years. Note that I do do a small amount of thinning. Rather have them too thick than too thin. I do 5 to 7 rows on a 30 inch bed and thin to 1 inch. I would love to hear what Jesse does though...? Also love to hear how folks set up for pelleted carrots. Been meaning to try pelleted for a long time but hard to fix what isn’t broken. May save on a bit of thinning though.
We do 9/14 and with the XY-24 roller for carrots. I only did one pelleted bed this year and I think I used the lj-24 with the same 9-14. Seemed to work fine! We do six rows per bed generally. In the summer we try to squeeze another row in just in case of low germination.
Rough Draft Farmstead thanks for sharing!
So I was curious to know if anyone has used the tiller attachment for the Stihl weedwhacker? Their Kombi system has interchangeable tools. I own the trimmer and the mini chainsaw. Looking to rent the tiller, looks like it may work like the tilther....
I did and it does. You can remove tines to basically tilth a strip a seed furrow wide and plant into that.
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Frogs. You want to hear the frogs. Canary in the Coal Mine
Maybe some kind of small sticks to hold the paper pot chain while zipping.
where did you get your blade for the weed wacker? They are hard to find
Any Stihl dealer has them
bearcat good, new hydraulic 50% more efficient, hydraulic regulated feed with auto feedback,great with agroforestry system, chip green for compost
Hey Jesse
What roller do you use for carrots? Raw seed? What gear ratio?
Xy-24 with 9 back and 14 front for 6 rows on 30 inches. Raw seed.
Wood chippers are great if you happen to have a lot of wood that they'll handle, and you want to use it for mulch. Yeah, they're loud. Use hearing protection.
When buying tools, the first thing I tell folks is, "buy once, cry once". For instance a cheap shovel made of thin steel with a wooden handle *will* fail you eventually, and usually at the least opportune time when you need it most. (Forget soaking wooden handles in oils and all that twice a year, it doesn't work all that well and trust me, you're going to blow it off or forget to do it.) But a shovel that costs $10-20 more made of heavier-gauge steel (sometimes they are also powder-coated, that's a very good thing) with a good reinforced fiberglass handle will outlast you and likely your kids unless you really really abuse it. It may seem unfrugal or even downright silly to spend $30-50 on a simple shovel, but within a few years you will start thanking me for the tip ;)
Wood chips are usually free just gotta find some tree cutters they will be happy to give you all you want so they don’t have to pay to dump it somewhere
Up here in northern Wisconsin I get all the free truckloads of pine needles and tree leaves I want, but woodchips, forget it.
I think rotary punch planters such as Haraka and Ferris have a lot of potential because they disturb the mulch so little. And flax as a cover crop is way under utilized. Must be planted late winter for best results.
Flax is underutilized! Maybe I’ll try some this winter.
@@notillgrowers I plant long before spring when it is too cold for weeds to grow ( 20 days before last frost). Once it sprouts it can withstand around 23 F. Broadcast thick and flail after full bloom. Unlike most mulch, allows sun in to warm the soil. The thick root structure is what continues to suppress weeds so punch planting works best with a deep root crop (okra, sunflower, etc.).
This might upset the safety people, but I like to take the guard off the trimmer when I use the grass blade. I find the guard just gets caught up on stubble and takes more energy to use, particularly if you're going for a close cut. Just wear some double front carhartts.
Oh man, I almost cut my feet with the guard ON! That’s hardcore
Also, steel toe shoes :)
I realized that you grow veggies but I am into flowers can you sometime relate to us and see if the equipment would fit for us? thanks
I wonder if you just pile the wood chips higher and higher until they stop washing away. We are in Missouri and can get high dumpings of rain. Inches in a matter of hours and I put 6 inches of chips around my beds and didn't even do it all at once and they are even on a slope and don't get washed away. They have an amazing ability to hold moisture so I don't understand why you have so many issues with chipped paths. Maybe you need it to be coarser/chunkier? Maybe you need it to be shredded, not chipped? I am not sure. I just hear you talk about it a lot and trying to give more ideas.
Overkill crimper for the win!
How much is the Jing?
seems like never sink makes the furrow but tears the paper pot into like 20 transplants each to get em deeper...have you tried it that way too?
Indeed. You really have to tear them if you’re going to hand plant them (they tear themselves at about 50 ft of pulling).
@@notillgrowers i mean would you say the paperpot cell tray and spreader and whatnot are worth the buy in without the transplanter? i have the zipper just haven't committed to the paperpot trays for i had to take a break from the market in the middle this season....but next year its what i aim for to buy
In the Northeast we pay top dollar for arugula, Dude!
Heck yeah! Same here! It’s a great crop for us. At market it goes for between. $12.50/# and $15/# the way we sell it
Isn't it time for a duds and studs tools for 2020???
We use hay straw in the paths and it holds down and together well.. I bet you can get it cheap in KY
. Stand up soil blocker, amen! My go to tools... triangle spear hoe, and jang
We have almost no grain production in KY so straw is hard to come by. Cheapest I’ve found is $7/bale, which is not the worst, I guess, but not cheap. That soil blocker is a beast...
Rough Draft Farmstead , a bale here is $14 😳... we use large round bales (coastal hay) here that have been sitting a long time, it seems to be of no value to people feeding horses etc once it has “rotted” so they will burn it or give it away. Maybe look down that avenue.
@@wayfaringfarmer2724 oh haha I'm talking square bales!
Rough Draft Farmstead ya... we are 14 per square bale. Ouch
lol man ive never seen someone use there hands so much to talk XD I wonder if u have something similar going on in your corpus callosum as people who studder a lot and use ur hands for timing.
Add music credits please.
Little more demonstrations would be appreciated
Yeah, he talks wwwwaaaaaaaaaay too much. so much so that I had to mute the sound and read the closed captioning, and scroll past most of his jabbering.
Can’t promise I’ll “jabber” less but more demos I can shoot for. Tough when you’re a full time farmer to get the footage honestly, but always trying to do better and be more helpful.
To me it looks like you aren’t going deep enough with the zipper to get a good covering of your paper pots. Watch their video for the zipper on their website and then yours here. You’ll see what I mean.
$526.00 that's allot of money.
For sure. It’s a lot. Our carrot beds each average about that this spring, tho, which has never been the case with the earthway due to overcrowding (or undercrowding when it gets a log jam). Jang is a great tool for the right scale, but it is not cheap
Love the ego line of battery powered yard tools. only one I have is the self loading string trimmer but I want them all. It can be converted to metal blades like in your video. Don’t have to remove head to add string, it’s quiet, on/off at pull of a trigger, and never have to fuss with gas/oil.
Nice!
How does that trimmer work on tall cover crop and tall pasture grass? Powerful enough compared to a gas trimmer?