Tools and Machinery
Choosing a Walk-Behind Tractor for a Small Farm
Three acres of vegetables, a hay patch and a quarter mile of lane is the size of farm where people start pricing compact...
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Buying, maintaining and fixing the machines a small farm actually needs.
Tools and Machinery
Three acres of vegetables, a hay patch and a quarter mile of lane is the size of farm where people start pricing compact...
Tools and Machinery
Farming has always demanded self-reliance, and nowhere more than in keeping machinery running.
Tools and Machinery
A diagnostic call with a tractor dealership technician dropped three times last spring because my rural connection could not...
Tools and Machinery
Most farms accumulate old tools and implements over the years, and they usually end up rusting in a barn or a hedge, dismissed...
Tools and Machinery
My first winter running equipment outdoors under a tarp taught me more about rust than any farming class ever did.
Tools and Machinery
I bought a secondhand disc harrow from a private seller for a price that felt like a genuine bargain, skipped a close...