When Ayam Cemani chicken breeders say their birds have dark meat, they mean it. The native Indonesian breed is black to the bone including all the meat, organs and even their bone marrow. But, at $199/chick, you won’t find many on the dinner table just yet. Jenny Taylor is farm manager for Greenfire Farms, Midway, Fla., which raises a variety of unusual and rare poultry breeds. She says the breed is costly because of... Learn More
Using Air Power To Keep The Cutterbar Clean
Dale Rogers uses air pressure to keep his cutterbar clean. The retired farmer and avid ultralight pilot keeps his runways clipped, and the short grass can clog up a cutterbar. "I noticed that if mowing into a strong wind, the air kept the cutterbar clean," says Rogers. "I figured an artificial wind would work just as well."
So he picked up an air reel from a junked combine and modified it to match his 9-ft. New Holland mower. A blower for the air reel was salvaged from an L Gleaner sidehill model. The New Holland was ideal for the retrofit as the drive pulley for the sickle bar is mounted to a pto shaft that extends out from the pulley. Designed to allow a second mower to be connected in series, it was perfect for...Learn More
Vegetable Crop Picker Built From A Riding Mower
"Paul King says harvesting fruits and vegetables is a lot more enjoyable with the 2-man, self-propelled harvesting cart he built out of a Sears Craftsman riding mower. The harvester measures 60 in. wide and 48 in. high and contains a pair of cargo racks designed to carry boxes that hold harvested vegetables. The machine still has the mower’s original 18 hp Briggs & Stratton engine, transmission and rear axle and wheels. The engine and drivetrain mounts 4 ft. off the ground on tall steel legs and is used to belt-drive the rear wheels.
"I'm a machine shop fabricator and built this unit for a customer who has a vegetable growing operation. He says it works great. The rig has 4 ft. of clearance so he can pick everything from strawberries to tomatoes. It took me 3 months to build because there was a lot of trial and error, but I think I could build another in 2 or 3 weeks," says King. He used 2-in. tubing to build the machine’s front legs and 2 by 6 tubing to build the rear legs. To drive the rear wheels he disconnected...Learn More
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