that was something I'll tell you this is not [ __ ]
oh man I would stand ghost coat it was a big hill really cool
so a lot of improvement that you can do in Market gardening and and regardless in small scale
farming has to do with diminishing uh the weight of the workload and a lot of Growers are using
Wheels now in washing stations and that's that's definitely where you want to go but to bring those
Wheels out in the fields also has its supports and today we're with tekatek here in France and
they've really done an amazing job of Designing and kind of Reinventing wheel barrels which is
pretty interesting stuff so we'll be talking with hame we've met Jaime in the past he's the
designer here at terratech and he'll be showing us four wheelbarrows that are really interesting in
their designs and what's great about them is that they're on the market so they're not just kind of
pie in the sky these are wheel barrels that we can actually purchase and use in the fields foreign
's a very Innovative company for small-scale farming and this is an example of this kame how
are you first of all yeah I'm very good JM and you I'm good so these are four different wheel
barrels that you've brought here today that you're going to show us what they're about
and why did you decided to manufacture them we have redesigned the wheelbarrows we have
like the single wheel with different different length yeah we have the double here to make
things more stabilized we have the large truck version so you can cross the beds and harvest
in the middle of the bed which which is one of my favorite and um of course we have the gain
changing wheelbarrow here the electric version and all of those wheelbarrows are available on
the electric power version so if you like uh the the the the large truck version it's possible to
get that one electric and this one this one is for this one has been designed mainly for compost so
you can fill compost inside and when you are on the bed just put the compost so it's not hard
for the body you just have to lift and decompost compost ramule wood chip or whatever else whatever
organic matter that you're you're hauling okay so why did you why did Terra Tech decide to kind
of invest and design these and yeah redesigning cards it's like redesigning a wheel but what you
teached us a new book and videos is like on a Farms you need the right tools for The Right
Use and those cards are designed for a box if I take like a box of vegetables like the standard
boxes it fit perfect on the cards you know that's the right size for the Harvest box yeah and then
on this one you can you can double it yep that's that's the that's the goal so we'll we'll take
them outside but already what I see that's really appealing for me is this whole idea of having
carts that are designed for 30 inch bed systems or you know I think you can adjust
those to different bed width so I'm really curious to see how they apply outside and
proposing to do a couple of harvests or carrying loads applications in the field okay let's go
okay JM so this card has been designed to straddle the beds so you can go over the bed take the box
with you harvest in the middle of the bed saving the time of not coming back with all the boxes all
the time so you have all your load with you you carry it yep and then the Harvest is as you go
exactly so try it okay so you were explaining to me that I need to take one handle one one handle
it's really enough okay and then go in the middle okay that's nice so obviously no it's not we're
gonna Harvest a bit later but that's pretty cool so I can be harvesting boom putting in putting in
pretty nice I think this could be a big time saver for a lot of Growers really interesting stuff
so really like it how you can maneuver it eat super easily I think that's clearly important
so you know I haven't tried this extensively so I can I can just can black out recommend it
but man this is pretty cool I have to say I like this coming I like this a lot but
let's gonna talk about the serious things let's go electric ah electric I like it
okay so now we're you're showing me this electric car
and uh it's it's pretty interesting yeah yeah we like we're a bit pride of that and we design an
electric set for all the bunch of cards we had so it's just a remote here you have like this
electric wheel and then that you have like a lot of torque here because it's a motor and a gearbox
so it gives you a lot of power and then you control the cards right here so you have one push
to go straight then the other one you can go back and we have a break I mean if you are on a hilly
farm and you move down you have you you have a break so you can lock a bit the wheel to to drive
okay like if you're in down gearing on a shift gear car exactly okay so and what you're saying
is that this is not an electric car this is a kit that you can an electric motor that you can put on
all the cards exactly single and double set so if you have a single wheel card you just take these
single wheel electric wheel set and same for the double people will obviously ask is this something
that's going to last through the years or will the batteries die out well yeah that's that's
a very standard batteries and you have eight hours work with the card so it means you just
need to plug the cards maybe one time a week okay so there's a lot of hours of of use yeah usage on
it exactly and it's strong strong enough to yeah the the the wheel is so strong and there is a big
hill here if you want to try out and we'll be happy to see you climbing okay okay let's try
it let's try it you've showed me so you just need to press that one okay so that's how we go
so this is going pretty well but what if I stop stop
that's not the same project
okay well that's definitely much better and it's a good Pace I have to say it's pretty fast
uh believe me that with the engine and without the engine makes a big difference it's pretty
nice it looks really stable also there's these little headers on the the side I think they
avoid the drop s drop them that's interesting definitely the engine plays a role that was
something I'll tell you this is not both oh man I would stand in ghost coat it was a big hill
really cool really really interesting stuff really I have to say
I'm a bit impressed I've tried it without the mo the the motor and it's not the same game and uh
yeah this is this is this is really interesting this is really perhaps a game changer here
stoked about it that was a big hill Reinventing the wheelbarrow that's really nice
it's still heavy but not the same so there's probably 150 pounds of tomatoes on this
all right well I'm really impressed Clement with what I've seen today uh you know Terra
Tech you guys are definitely innovating and these wheelbarrows are amazing you were telling me that
you're working with a design for an American wheelbarrow with that's gonna come for next year
so that's gonna have a card for everyone the idea is that all your wheelbarrows are you can change
the specs and move things exactly so we have like a lot of version of those wheelbarrows and we hope
that everyone will find happiness on it on the cut day one yeah for their own spacing so that's great
uh people can check out your website.com you guys are distributed in the U.S by Johnny's selected
seeds and in Canada great good stuff so that's it for us I hope you like this episode of tools of
the trade we'll be doing some more visiting other great people like kamehe it's my best to everyone
at terratech it was great good fun hope you guys are growing hope you guys have the right tool for
the right situation and I hope you like what we're doing here which is kind of showcasing what's out
there and what's available uh tools are a big part of Market gardening and small scale farming so
this one's for you I hope you're well and I'll see you next time Jay I'm out foreign