hey everyone welcome back to the channel today we're doing a tools
of the trade and we're exploring a really really important tool in my toolbox the
double wheel hoe and we're doing it with our friend James from terratech
so last last time we were together we were exploring the single wheel hoe yep and how it's
a great tool that's very versatile and today we're launching the exploration of the double wheel hole
I want to tell me what are the big difference between the single wheel hoe and the double wheel
hoe so the single wheel hoe is like the original products from Terra Tech and now we have like a
conversion set to go into a double so the double with hoe is designed for much more Precision on
the rows and the single just cleaning between the rows or footpath it also has a lot of tools that
are unique to the double a lot of which I've used a lot in the past as you know but some that I'll
be exploring and kind of learning about today on this show so the double with who is like a
tool carrier I mean like you have two sets of tools like mostly we put the blades to to cut
the width close to the rows and then we have a bunch of tools like the finger Withers torsion
weeders rake to put behind the blade so this is more like a cultivating tractor most tools they'll
be just like just a one-off but this you can have a second pass in one pass exactly and you can work
like close to the Rose and in the rows and that's the things because I mean to remove the weeds
close to the row it's kind of easy with all the tools as well but with the finger Withers you
can catch the width between the rows so you don't have to do it by hand the second attachment there
is Springs so you can adjust the tension of the second tools because this is the most difficult
things to work on the rows with this one we can connect convert back to a single wheel hole yeah
when you have a double one you have a single one you have these multi-tools all time on the body
and you just need to remove those six bolts and put the wheel in the middle and then you have
an again on a single one okay so so I've had this tool remain with me for five six years you know I
was part of the initial group of people that were kind of reviewing it exploring it you've had a lot
of feedback but over the years the tool is pretty complete now and the adjustments are are well
designed and well done yeah most of the tools are coming from a farm I mean when we had a talk with
the Growers and said okay it's going to be great to have tools to make that so we think about it we
design we test and then if it works we propose the tools on the catalogs okay amazing so this is a
complete package a tool carrier really interesting I I think now what would be great is to explore
the details of different different tools that we can mount on the toolbar sure the first tools we
designed for the the double one is the precedist it's called precedisk for precision so this one
is designed mainly for carrots red bits onions in this way after setting you can go very close from
the rows you have no projection of ground on on the rows and you do the cultivation with the blade
it's really easy to switch from one to the other okay I like this this could work come on good work
okay so now it's it's a bit slower than the biotis because now you look for precision
so again you're really eyeballing where the center is and you're letting the tool do all the work
from the back look at that JM so the disc with those very small slats you have like no projection
on the rows yeah the blade are cultivating close to the Rose and if you look behind the tools you
see the two uh through Row from the disc so we made a great work here and let's do it again
as we said before this double rows work with a combination of tools so let's do the rake with
the combination of the blade plus the rake you mix the width with the ground yeah obviously we have
the finger weeders that we we're going to explore afterwards kept a pretty unique design yeah that's
that's my favorite yeah and the last one is the torsion weeder coming from uh tractor cultivators
on transplant crops every time you cross a plant it opens the finger so here it's a bit wide but
most of the time we work like this then when you have a transplant it's open and then close again
close again yeah all right so there's a lot of options what are you suggesting let's say for
this situation where we have two rows and the crop that's you know about three three inch high yeah
so on green beans I think it's too big for the precedisk I mean you're going to cut the
leaves with this so we recommend definitely the L blade okay plus the finger wheeler
it's like the perfect height for finger winners here it's going to do a great work
so JM let me explain you something for the thingy reader adjustment when you adjust
the fingers you don't have to do it like this because if you do like this you can check it's
not touching but when the fingers are on the soil then you have the pressure on the plastic
and you have like a centimeters cross it's an overlap novel up yeah so it depends off
the culture the soil but most of the time we do an overlap of Sunny Metals here so you really
see how we're working cultivating between the rows close to the crop with the finger weeders
and with the finger faster you go better work heated okay so let's speed up the process
all right so we're really fast going at Fast Pace what's really incredible is that we have
we're doing double action we're cultivating close to the row on the row and we're doing
it at a really high speed so this is really interesting so finger weeders the L blades
this is a great setup for this how about we we try together another set of tools foreign
it's mostly designed to cover the width on the rows so uh in this way you have no manual
cultivation I mean it's just a quick cover of the Rose yeah so if they're at the white stage
or really small weeds then you can bury them exactly with the biodesk the biodisc is is you
know it's a great tool I've been using it for many many years and these blades are there to
keep it straight and in certain soils you want that but you can also remove them exactly so
um on sandy soil we recommend to have the four disc but here we are good with the only the curved
one so my proposition Jam let's remove those tray discs okay and just work with the curves foreign
this is really my favorite tool it's really a game changer in my toolbox because of the speed that it
goes to once the adjustment's done I'm really eyeballing and really shooting down the line
all right this is this is clearly one of my favorite tool the speed
at which we can go to and the work that it does of healing
the crop is really amazing honestly this tool is a game changer for me
so JM I have something for you you're in France and uh we're so happy about
that so I just prepare like a bonus tour for you
you know the the handrake we have made an adapters for for the Wheelhouse so you fit
the the the the hand rake on that wheel hose and let's do it on the bins so now JM which is
going to be really serious with that tools and work the full beds in One path foreign
thanks for taking the time really appreciate it uh what I'm learning today like having
used this tool for a long time is that it's very versatile there's different evolutions
of it I think for somebody starting in Market gardening what's great about it is that there
can be upgrades over the years over the seasons if you want to learn more about
the tool definitely check out terratech's website the tools are available in Canada
and in the US through Johnny's selected seeds and Dubois AG renovation so you can check them out
uh that's it for this week I hope you guys like this episode next week klame will be visiting
with another tool together uh that's it for today Jay I'm out hope you guys are doing well