http://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/market-farming/2005-February/019634.html [Market-farming] The MacDonald Multiple Use Toolbar, bed shaper, etc ....Steve Diver steved at ncat.orgTue Feb 22 23:07:00 EST 2005
Market farming friends - A couple of years ago Thomas and Shelly MacDonald visited NCAT-ATTRA to share details and pictures of the multiple use toolbar Thomas had invented. I refer to this farm-made equipment as the The MacDonald Multiple Use Toolbar. They'd farmed organic vegetables in NY and CA for 25 years. The MUT can be built from scratch from steel pieces you purchase and build yourself. Their web page has a description of the MUT, how to use, and it even has a parts sheet for the steel pieces. A 45-50 hp tractor can be matched to the multiple use toolbar to work two 40-inch beds, for example. It can be used for secondary tillage, bed shaping, laying irrigation furrows, planting, transplant aid, harvest aid, and row crop cultivation. Thomas and Shelly have interests in watersheds and for vacations they travel along rivers and waterways. They'd traveled to see the Arkansas River, so they made a side trip up the Ozark hills to visit NCAT-ATTRA in Fayetteville, to share details on this multiple use toolbar. See: Agriculture and Evolution http://www.agevolution.com/ Thomas Enfield MacDonald The MacDonald Multiple Use Toolbar http://www.agevolution.com/mut.htm Photos of the MUT and some jobs the MUT can perform http://www.agevolution.com/mutphoto.htm List of Steel Pieces Needed for a Two-Row MUT http://www.agevolution.com/steelist.htm Best wishes, Steve Diver http://www.attra.ncat.org P.S. A second multiple use toolbar I've seen in action in broadscale vegetable production was the MUT built by Eric Kindberg to mount the Keyline Chisel Plow.
More information about the Market-farming mailing list |