milkman
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- Sep 22, 2001
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- BX2200, BCS 735
When I started my garden this spring, the first thing I planted was potatoes, it was going to rain so I didn't have time to come up with one, so I made the ridges the hard way, I pulled them up with a hoe, up one side and down the other.
I almost ordered the hiller discs from on-line, but then I spied something in a pile of junk that I thought I could make work. It was the front end out of a Sears lawn tractor, and I had a couple extra disc blades laying around so I came up with this contraption. Had to weld a little and cool then weld some more since the wheels have plastic bushings.
Pic1 The turnbuckle adjusts the angle of the discs.
Last pic is of the ridge for sweet potato slips, forgot to get a pic after I got them in.
I almost ordered the hiller discs from on-line, but then I spied something in a pile of junk that I thought I could make work. It was the front end out of a Sears lawn tractor, and I had a couple extra disc blades laying around so I came up with this contraption. Had to weld a little and cool then weld some more since the wheels have plastic bushings.
Pic1 The turnbuckle adjusts the angle of the discs.
Last pic is of the ridge for sweet potato slips, forgot to get a pic after I got them in.