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For example, because the wagon now has three sides, we sometimes string a large tarp across the top, providing shade on hot days for anyone working on the wagon. First, I used large bolts to attach four wooden posts to the sides of the wagon.

Choosing the right trailer to hitch or haul your animals makes the job safer and easier. How often will you be hauling them? Check your state's requirements. Here's how the U.S. Forest Service classifies them in its Fleet Equipment Management Handbook...

Some offer the ability to pull a lever and quickly dump the contents out of the back, a plus if you're transporting dirt, rocks, manure or similar materials. They can be a bit unstable over bumpy ground.

Every issue of Hobby Farms magazine, our editors search for items that are useful to hobby farmers, whether they're heavier equipment such as tractor attachments, useful tools, innovative helper items or accessories for livestock management.

Here on my Wisconsin farm, it rained a lot last week. Instead, grab a metal bow rake and gather the hundreds (or thousands) of bits into piles, which can then be scooped up in large amounts and placed on your wagon.

Miscellaneous Items Kristine Paulus/Flickr We always carry pocketknives when working, and a Leatherman-type tool serves many purposes. For a tool or implement that will be used only a few times, consider renting it—or bartering for its use with a neighbor.

At some point in your farming experience you will need to tow your livestock from point A to point B. Before you and your livestock hit the road, it's necessary to take precautions to minimize potentially dangerous problems.

Pike's carry-alls are crafted of pine and steam-bent oak, with birch side rods and a food-grade, PVC-coated wire mesh body that makes it easy to rinse your crops right in the hod. Garden Carts I've saved my most indispensable harvest tool for last: a...

If you are allowed to plant near or around the box, select flowers of varying colors, heights, and bloom times.If the landscaping around utility boxes is interesting enough, you may not even realize there's something ugly in the middle of it.

Cultipacker USFWS Mountain Prairie/Flickr Cultipackers are pulled behind tractors to firm seedbeds before seeding to set up your planting for good seed-to-soil contact. Chisel Plow: This has long shanks that turn over the soil to a depth of 12 inches.

While it's true that gasoline is slightly more expensive than diesel, and gas engines are less fuel efficient, the margin will hardly be noticed in the four- to five-gallon gas tanks.

I've been there. If you're new to the farm and garden section, you might be surprised by the amount of livestock for sale on there, but you'll soon find yourself fawning over spring lambs and aching to raise show chickens.

When the day arrives for the door to close behind a few of them, they're already where they need to be. And when the trailer returns to the now-smaller herd, the next-bravest pigs replace the missing for in-trailer meals.

The original ollas, thought to be brought from Spain to South America were unglazed clay earthenware urns which are still used today in the Southwest. This water should last for a few days to a week – slowly emitting into the garden, directly around...

Tips For Achieving A Perfect Weld Incorrect wire feed and voltage are the usual troublemakers that hinder a sound MIG weld. However, they're more expensive to own and because aluminum is a soft metal, it can flex when heavily loaded, sometimes causing...

If you don't pick the blooms, the plants will often spread by their seed, though they more reliably spread by their creeping rhizomes. Today, blue flag is best known for its ability to remove toxicity from the body while tonifying the lymphatic system.

Building Fences An ATV or UTV can be a big help with fencing projects. Once upon a time, the typical farmer needed little more than a single, trusty tractor to handle most of the jobs and tasks on a farm.

While I can't advise you on apps, the virtual market where I am shopping for them has user reviews attached. How could I refuse? I have an embarrassing number of pictures in my phone, and room for hundreds more.Smartest of all is when my phone provides...

That's because trailers are designed with their safety in mind, truck beds and vans aren't. If you make your own truck-bed hauler, make it stout! And always add a roof—you'd be surprised how high we can jump when we're afraid.

They're left to grow all winter long and into the following spring. What Is The Best Cover Crop For Your Vegetable Garden? The most common way to utilize a cover crop in your vegetable plot is to select one that performs best in cooler weather.

Can be standard, semi-miniature, or miniature in size. You can find them in a wide range of leaf shapes, foliage types, and blossom colors, just as with their non-trailing cousins.

While they are part of your property, these utility easements are intended for utility crews to have access to power lines or power boxes. It can be pretty upsetting when you go to work in the morning with a beautiful full tree canopy on your terrace,...

You may be able to remove larger crowns as well, allowing several new suckers and crowns to form in the resulting gaps. Whether you've got a plant that's refusing to branch out or one that's grown into a dense tangle, I've got some tips on getting your...

While crawling around under the deck looking for a hose leak, I spied an old plastic kiddie pool--the molded plastic type. The heck with the leak--I'd just found the answer to my garden cleanup woes.

So the best way to accommodate these vines is by trellis, arbors or fences.Twining honeysuckles perform best if grown in full sun but they will tolerate shade, albeit with a reduction in flower production.

In response to that need, Just Food in New York announced that in January 2011, it will open Farm School NYC: The New York City School of Urban Agriculture. The school will offer a two-year certificate program in urban agriculture in addition to individual...

Test with a toothpick. I also reached into the back of my meager liquor cabinet for a slim bottle of Swiss pear brandy, too powerful for my taste but truly the perfume of pears in a bottle.