Placing netting over 6 acres of grapes is just a 1-day job for Jasper Tucker, thanks to the hydraulic netting system he built "I knew I had to have some kind of machine, because the rows are long and you just can't do it by hand," says Tucker, who has a vineyard near Dixon, New Mexico. He and his wife knew that without netting, birds would harvest their grapes before they could. They couldn't justify a $40,000 netting machine so...Read More
Portable Air Compressor Built On Riding Mower Frame
Traveling Trees Spend Winter In A Barn
Richard and Joyce Thompson raise peaches, pears, cherries, apricots and other non-native fruit trees on their northern Minnesota farm. The trees, bushes and vines are rooted in 90 tubs, each filled with 1,500 lbs. of composted soil. "After the first hard freeze, we move them into the barn with our skid steer, and in early May, we move them....
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Shop Vac-Powered Water Removal
"I use an old 20-gal. pressure tank and a shop vac to drain water out of the 1,000-gal. storage tanks we use on our tobacco farm. It's easy to use and there's very little cost," says Emile Perron, Adams, Tenn. Perron uses the big 1,000-gal. tanks at planting time to fill sprayers. At the end of the season... Read More
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