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booshe-bond replied to the topic Douglas interplant hoe and gapper in the forum Help and information 5 months, 2 weeks ago
Thank you for taking the time to give me the extra information…as a farmer’s daughter I was the youngster “employed” to do these jobs 😂. This definitely would have made hoeing the sugar beet easier than hand hoeing. I can just imagine my Dad’s face if I turn up saying I want to plant some sugar beet in the veg plot to try it out 😊.
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booshe-bond replied to the topic Douglas interplant hoe and gapper in the forum Help and information 5 months, 2 weeks ago
Hi Charlie
Thank you for the explanation, it has helped firm up the image in our heads. Despite my Dad farming his whole life, he had never come across anything like this before. I’m kinda wishing we’d had one when I was growing up…it would have saved a lot of the hand hoeing that I did over the years (including copious fields of sugar beet) 😂. -
booshe-bond started the topic Douglas interplant hoe and gapper in the forum Help and information 5 months, 2 weeks ago
My Dad and I have renovated this wonderful piece of machinery after it was gifted to us in a terrible state. Despite trying to research it we have drawn a blank.
Can anyone please tell us anything about either the company who made it, when the hoes were manufactured and/or what exactly it was used for and who may have used it?
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