[AT] Back on farm equipment! I need help finding... for my farming operation

[jahaze at aol.com]

Grant,
 
They grow a bunch of carrots in central Michigan, near a town apply named Grant, Michigan.  There is a junk yard that specializes in farm machinery that might have what your looking for called Rooters.  I don't have their number here at work, but will look it up when I get home.  They might have what your looking for (although shipping might b ecost prohibitative)
 
Joe 
 
 
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From: gbrians at hollinet.com
To: at at lists.antique-tractor.com
Sent: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 12:38 AM
Subject: [AT] Back on farm equipment! I need help finding... for my farming operation


I have a farm equipment need that the list might help me find. Last year I was looking for a potato digger for my potato crops and a friend turned out to have one locally that i now use. That was an amazing piece of luck, especially since I had no idea he had it even though we talk frequently and he lives less than a mile across the fields! This year my need is for root harvesting machinery. I grow Turnips, Rutabagas, Carrots, Parsnips, Beets and a number of other root vegetable crops here in coastal central California. I need to start mechanizing the picking as labor shortages are getting more and more profound during the spring and summer. As a result, I am looking for machines that will help me. I cannot pay much and I assume I will have to buy from a long distance away. 
  There are adaptable machines that can harvest all of these by adjusting the settings, but there are also machines that will only do some of the crops. I am not picky as I need to get started on the process. A Carrot harvester would seem to be the likely best place to start. An old Scott-Viner from the 50's or an FMC or.... Please let me know if anyone on the list or off can help me inexpensively. Thanks to all, and I know that if we can get off of the midwinter threads all will be back to sanity and pleasant discourse. Thanks! 
  By the way, our weather has been very unusual lately - lots more frost than any winter before but less rain than usual. I have lost some crops and lots of production, but my veggies mostly still look very good, just not growing the way they should. I've already started planting for spring. 
  Grant Brians 
  Hollister,California 
p.s. Anyone know of a parts Oliver77 CHEAP and nearby to allow me to fix our super77??????  
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