24 March 2014

Another way of harvesting olives

Some time before, we spoke about olive tree harvesting in our area; this task is normally carried out in December and January. At this time, our friend and follower "Espejo" sent us some pictures and comments about his harvesting system on his working days in the Chinchón area. As he told us, he can harvest about 40 olive trees per hour if they have optimal conditions (they only have a trunk and the field is ok)... on the other hand, he can only harvest 8 olive trees if they are old or malformed. 

His machinery is the Agromelca VG3 (it is installed in the Tenías front loader of his Hew Holland TS-125A) which allows him to shake trunks from 8cm to 50cm. The olives are put into an aluminum hopper of 500kg that can be directly downloaded on the trailer as you can see in his pictures. The system is based on shaking brands of olive trees through vibes of 5 or 10 seconds (he can change the vibrations power)... he manages all controls from the tractor cab or even with remote control. 

Apart from working in his olive trees, he offers olives jobs harvesting to other farmers in his area to amortize the machinery (he paid for it about 36,000€ four years ago). He charges 60€/h for this task. So far, he is very happy with this harvesting machine because he has not found any problems and he has only had to change a few parts what are worn down by normal use, mainly some pieces of the pincer used to catch trunk.

You can see a video from here.



Harvesting Olives
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19 March 2014

Nutrition days for purple garlic

We continue speaking of fertilizing tasks because in our area it is the time to carry out this nutrition jobs... in this case, for purple garlic. We used the same fertilizer as the last year because the results were truly positive (also, other farmers told us they didn't realize any important improvement). This fertilizer is the Duranit Actibión 26/46 of Expertia company. It is delivered in big bag of 500kg, so we had to use a front loader to fill our spreaders... in our opinion, if it were delivered in bulk it would be easier to transport and manipulate it. The dose, we used, was 430kg/ha so we had to transport several large bags (the farming convoy was composed of four tractors, two trailers and a car).

The nutrition day was long because, this year, our purple garlic is 65km away from our village so the trip with our tractors is longish (it takes us about 2 hours). However, it was funny since we could spend a lot hours with our partners (Aquilino and Jesús)... we always learn new things when we speak to them and we even share smiles during the lunch in the restaurant. The fertilizing job finished perfectly... whenever we work with our Amazone ZX-A Perfect spreaders the job is a pleasure because they spread fertilizer very accurately.




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