25.4_mechanic
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Today I have acquired a much better tidied garden and space for bulbs and garlic to be planted for next spring's harvest.
With the Holder_A28 narrow-gauge tractor with Celli spade machine we were pretty fast.
(The Holder_A28/Ferrari 95 deserves to be discussed in this thread too - four equally sized driven wheels - still need to do it).
Really nice, such a spade machine:
spade handles (four of them in our case) are driven by a large crankshaft and guided by horizontal arms in an asymmetrical path, driving their spade blades vertically into the soil, whereupon the picked-up soil is thrown against the sheet metal at the back and then distributed.
In contrast to tilling, the soil can be as wet as it wants, you just have to be able to drive. The soil treated in this way dries much faster, of course. This type of soil cultivation is considered the gentlest, far better than ploughing, for example.
This method is not very common or even known here, but I know that those Dutch, who are punished with particularly wet soils, only get yield out of their fields in this way - and when it comes to making or not making an Euro for a Dutchman, he gets resourceful.
Where we still want to plant onions and garlic before the winter, we will of course have to work the soil this year, for the rest we hope for a few days of frost, which will break up all the clods finely.
In spring, when it has dried up, we can then start tilling directly and get fantastic soil again ....
Chard, mustard greens and ruccola have been particularly good to us this year and are constantly sprouting. Today we were able to take some baskets of fresh vegetables with us (mmhhh, how am I going to explain to the Scots here what I'm talking about ... Vegetables ... hhmmm?).
Today we have acquired a nice afternoon outdoors
Carsten
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With the Holder_A28 narrow-gauge tractor with Celli spade machine we were pretty fast.
(The Holder_A28/Ferrari 95 deserves to be discussed in this thread too - four equally sized driven wheels - still need to do it).
Really nice, such a spade machine:
spade handles (four of them in our case) are driven by a large crankshaft and guided by horizontal arms in an asymmetrical path, driving their spade blades vertically into the soil, whereupon the picked-up soil is thrown against the sheet metal at the back and then distributed.
In contrast to tilling, the soil can be as wet as it wants, you just have to be able to drive. The soil treated in this way dries much faster, of course. This type of soil cultivation is considered the gentlest, far better than ploughing, for example.
This method is not very common or even known here, but I know that those Dutch, who are punished with particularly wet soils, only get yield out of their fields in this way - and when it comes to making or not making an Euro for a Dutchman, he gets resourceful.
Where we still want to plant onions and garlic before the winter, we will of course have to work the soil this year, for the rest we hope for a few days of frost, which will break up all the clods finely.
In spring, when it has dried up, we can then start tilling directly and get fantastic soil again ....
Chard, mustard greens and ruccola have been particularly good to us this year and are constantly sprouting. Today we were able to take some baskets of fresh vegetables with us (mmhhh, how am I going to explain to the Scots here what I'm talking about ... Vegetables ... hhmmm?).
Today we have acquired a nice afternoon outdoors
Carsten
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Also
,and surprisingly,the mechanic who located that one ,also found me one,well eventually,coincidentally the architect who owned this knew me as I’d supplied steelwork to his drawings,small world.
that's the spirit! 
. Think it might still be at her house.
