welcome to the channel today I'm really stoked because we're
launching a new series called tools of the trade where I'll be exploring
revisiting reviewing some of the best tools out there for Market gardeners
tools have been a big part of my evolution in farming and in the last few years there's been
a big surge of innovation of new designs of people out there pushing the envelopes
with new tools to help Market gardeners really evolve their farming so with this series what
I want to do is revisit some of the classics some of my my favorite tools but also explore
new ones that are not on the market yet or coming up and we'll have the huge privilege
of meeting some of the designers Behind these tools so for this first episode let's go meet
rame from teratech and together we'll be exploring their versatile single wheel hoe
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hey Jim how are you I'm good and you I'm really good it's been a long time ramay we were together
about three years ago yeah and rames the founder of terratech it's a really nice Tool Company here
in France uh how about you tell us a bit more about the company Terra Tech how you started
it yeah we started the company 10 years ago and we're designing and Manufacturing tools for Market
gardeners it's a really professional tools and the aim of the company is making good tools for good
Growers and so rames are great he's a really great tool designer and what you guys have built there's
there's all sorts of tools that Terra Tech builds but today we're doing a deep dive on a classical
the wheel hoe how about you tell us about the design how it came to be yeah so we designed
the The Wheelhouse in these structures so you have the harms of the Wheelhouse in the same position
then the arms of your body okay I mean when you push the hose you see my arms are in the same way
of the hose and then we have this uh frame here so it's like a triangle here one is for the arms then
for the tool okay so it's made ergonomically so that you're you're pushing your way with the tool
into the ground exactly and it's a very versatile product so we have like a bunch of tools to fit on
so you can adjust here you have like two three position here regarding the size you are you
can adjust the height of the arms and the good position with the wheel hose is to get the arms
here when you work it's like the perfect position for your body and
you you stay straight and works only with the arms
So today we're gonna talk about like five seven tools but we have a bunch of maybe 20 20 tool
that goes on the wheel hole I mean on the single and double okay but um let's let's talk about the
essential products yes great so this the first one is the uh oscillating yeah oscillating the Ripple
so that's the classic you can adjust the angle of the tools with this bolt here so you can be more
aggressive on the soil and make things easier for you okay now so it depends off the soil if it's
compact or soft soil and you can adjust the angle of the tools okay I'm just gonna try it and enjoy
yeah so a stir up hoe on a wheel hoe is really the classical where it's a push and pull process
and that's how you scrape the surface with the blade so this one obviously it's now it's really
well adjusted what Ramen was telling me is like the pressure so I have all my Forks sticking into
the into the shaft here so it's really easy to cultivate just want to tell you that for
the steering hose we have four four sizes so you can choose it regarding the row distance
you have perfect okay so that's how we switch the tools now we're going to try the ridger
obviously there's different depth to it like this just going to kind of start
see how this goes this is for create we're going to create a ridge on a new bed
so this is obviously a tool where there's a different situation where this can be used
for healing for trenching interesting so I like this this is easy to set easy to operate
and there's another one that I'd like us to try yeah so JM let me show you that tools with the
planet Junior blade its name planet Junior like the American I mean push hoe yeah you
can use it in two ways okay first you can use in that direction so you it's very aggressive
here it's chopped and very aggressive or you can flip that tools and then work on
seedling plants so the rows are right and left of the blade and then the ground is canalized
in the middle of the blade so you have like nearly no projection on the rows okay so you'd
be protecting your side crops yeah but then you'll be have you'll be bringing everything
to the inside kind of exactly cutting it uh these blades uh would you say that Growers
can sharpen them to their liking yeah like like you teach your students you know it's for me it's
very important to shop the blade every time before using it because it makes things much
more easier okay so there's two threads you have to put it in both ways so I'm gonna try it here
okay great enjoy okay so this one it really needs to be Sharp and then it's simply going
to cut everything that comes into its way really nice design really good flow
yeah so I like this I really like the speed at which we can come with it it's like a knife
that's really cutting like a bush look at all those weeds here yeah that's great so different
vibe than the Stirrup it's really more like yeah just a lot of things for for the planet Junior
um we have another attachment you can just put behind like the rake uh you know you just put
a second mounting tools and then you can put the rake behind so I mean you cut and you mix
behind the blade so just to tell you double action double action great yep and the last one you want
to show me is the these this Harrow three feet Harrow cultivating tool so it's the same setup
goes like this and then this also this one would be more for kind of decompacting yeah decompacting
or here the soil is very soft yeah but if I mean the soil it's very heavy compact after a huge rain
or whatever like uh this one is really open the soil and like much more than a blade okay easier
than a blade okay great makes things easier I'll try it in a different cut we'll go on the
farm and look at a different place yeah if you want we can go down and check okay let's do it
so now we're in much more clay soil and you see how it really opens up the soil the weeds just
can't resist yeah on this tool you really see the importance of the design the ergonomics of really
being able to have a lot of force going into the tool yeah it's a much more aggressive tool
and I'm definitely working out now because this is heavy clay it's a bit wet but it's clearly doing
the job okay so am I I really like you can you can see how this tool when will really need to go deep
it's more aggressive and I really you can feel what you were explaining the power of the tool
pushing downward if there's one last thing to say about this one this wheel hoe why it's so
interesting good design obviously it's going to last a long time but what we're going to show you
in another video is how it can convert to being a double wheel holder and then you're just kind of
multiplying the number of options that you have for this kind of versatile tool thanks for uh
thanks Jan thanks for showing me this I learned a bunch I hadn't used this one before if people want
to learn more about this tool and what you guys are up to they can check out your websitech.com
and the tools are distributed in the US and Canada with I think Johnny selected seeds is for the U.S
and uh Dubois Agrinovation for Canada great good so that's it for us stay tuned for another show
next time around we'll be visiting a couple or more tools with you guys yeah okay JM out