Re: Beginner

Posted by Leroy on August 20, 2017 at 09:42:12 from (69.88.204.212):

In Reply to: Beginner posted by Ewebb on August 20, 2017 at 07:36:42:

I have no idea where you are at so that is a big consideration. Do you have a short growing season like in the north or a long growing season like in the south? So only one crop per year or multiple crops per year. What about water supply, depend on rain or irigate? Pond or well? Then what type of crops are you thinking of? Makes a difference on what implements you need. Then is your land good loam or sand or heavy clay or jackwax? Again what you need to work it and what crops you can grow. How close are you to larger cities that might have a good farmers market? Then where I am located there are 2 produce auctions one located about 50 mile east and one about 60 mile northwest of me. Anything like that around you? That 3600 Ford IF it has a 8 speed transmission should handle a 5 ft tiller if your ground can stand the tiller. That tractor might only have a 4 speed transmission and that would NOT handle a tiller. And you do have to have a live-independant PTO for the tiller. Do not know if that tractor was made with the S-O-S transmission but stay-away - run away as fast as you can with one of those. If it is a 4 speed you would be limited to a moldboard plow and disk and to do the small sections for that king of operation is trouble. As I told a gentelman several years ago on this site devide up the total area into perhaps 50' by a 100' spots with a grass drive between every one to mow with lawn mower so you do not think when I finnished one section I have enough seed left I will just plant more and then have to much crop to get rid of at that time. And do not plan on doing any cultivating with a Ford of any model. They are only made for a 2 row cultivator and you need something that will cultivate only a single row at a time in width of 25" row spacing to a 60" row spacing. depending on the crop. The 60" for mellons and pickles. the 25" for onions and the kile, about 39" for grean beans and sweet corn 40". And the only tractors out there that could do that are the Farmall Cub with cultivators or the scarce Allis Chalmers G that is designed as a vegitable cultivating tractor only. I do have Amish friends that are in the produce raising business and selling direct from home and in the auction that is less than a half dozen mile from his place. And he has put up the hoop greanhouses to get a longer growing season for his tomatoes and the Candy onion is a big seller. Can you see yourself planting 10,000 onion seeds a year and setting the plants by hand? Hope this is not too much info for you. But if you do devide things out like I sugjested in those small sections a tiller will work OK in them, a plow will not. And those small sections would work to space a crop out for every week or every 2 weeks for planting and harvesting instead of it all comming at once. But that 8000 Ford is size if you were working 500 acres instead of 15 acres.

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