Custom bed shaper attachment for tiller
Local Roots Farm in Washington State has come up with a design for a bed shaper attachment for their rototiller, to allow one-pass bed making on their vegetable farm.
As of their blog post on the tool, they hadn’t yet tried it out in the field. But it sure looks like they’re on to something.
Check out their tool– we hope they will put up drawings and reports on the Farm Hack Tools Wiki!
Tiller/Bed-Shaper Modification Experiment
photo from Local Roots Farm
ten times better with a hydraulic roller and no press pan….works in all moisture conditions and doesnt leave a smear….that is why we use railroad spike pull behind bedshapers after listing …..also the sides of the bed straight like that will tend to erode…..33 and a third is better……if you have trash it will clog up the roller type will not……will try to send a picture of one we are building right now….22 years farming experience intensive veg…..Mike
also with the roller with the coneguide bedwall shaper sides you get better guiding…and you could have left the original doors of the rototiller on….simpler…except it helps to put a hydraulic drive on the roller to reduce divoting…..
Hi Mike, thanks for the comment, if you send me some photos of the one you are working on I would be happy to post them here. Also you could use our Tools Wiki section to make a page for the one you are building. –Ben