Tools can make or break the whole experience. I started out mulching my property using a shovel and it was stressing my whole upper body. I was fighting the whole way until I saw a video of a person using a pitch fork to move mulch. Oh my, game changer. Helpful video for sure. Makes quick work of vines and green mulch.
Who makes the holster? The one with 2 pockets? I currently use a Felco holster with a big pocket for pruners and then a small pocket I put a small sickle in. Is there a saw out there better than Felco?
@@LeviWelch-wh5hp Felco Leather Holster (F 911) is the one we use. id love to see where youre putting your sickle. we typically tuck them into our belts or just throw them on the ground when not in use. not ideal, but i could never figure out a sickle holster. we use silky saws. we use the pocketboy for our belts and sugoi for climbing, bananas and bigger cuts. ive heard zubat is good, but i havent tired it myself. silky is incredible!!
@@tropicagroforestryspencerjulie wow, the F-911 holster looks like a game changer! I've never seen it before and I thought I had all the Felco products memorized....I currently use the "F-910+" holster, it only holds a small sickle. I use Hubbard's Leather Conditioner and then bake the leather with the sickle in it. This conforms the leather to the sickle. I also put in a sharpening stick in the little pouch along with the sickle. This helps lock it in place. Yeah, I still haven't found an ideal way to carry around a large sickle but then again I don't much care for larger sickles....
@@LeviWelch-wh5hp very nice! the double holster is really nice. im actually pondering moving away from the folding handsaw and move towards non folding. i havent decided what id like to keep in my other pocket, maybe just a knife for eating in the field not sure yet
I’ve been using a Niwashi sickle here in my New Zealand garden - light, handle is wooden, blade is serrated, stays sharp. The brand I’d like to try is Okatsune. Wooden handle is red so easy to find. By the descriptions I have seen the blade is tough.
oh awesome! thanks for a recommendation! ill have to see if we can source them out here. glad to hear its Japanese brands youre preferring. we love japanese products. the barnel we use is also japanese, but im assuming they sold recently or something
but is it dense enough? haha! glad to have connected. ive subscribed to your channel. excited to watch as im from socal and havent seen anyone doing agroforestry out there yet
im in the pacific on an island. the biggest pest that enjoys them here is the queensland longhorn beetle. it literally kills the trees. sure the ants like to hang out on them, not super intense like ive heard in some places, but it doesnt seem like whatever they are farming is that big of a problem. i wouldn't say ive noticed a larger infection of white fly or aphids on that species specifically. tithonia is seasonally covered in white fly though
Looks like a lot of work. Are you sure it needs to be this difficult. My system is always looking for simplicity, this wouldn’t allow an average person to barely look after 1 acre themselves. I look to run my 6 acre food forest myself and I work part time.
Farming is indeed a lot of work. however what weʻre doing actually is not a lot of work, comparatively, and it is the easiest way to do the work. the plants take care of themselves and each other. of course when your working more land its appropriate to scale up and utilize machinery. also less diversity and wider spacing. i could probably manage 3 acres myself without a tractor if i set it up properly. where are you located? the growth rate is insane here, our weedy trees grow over 10 feet per year. we are also only on rocks with no soil. so we need to work the site appropriately. i had a 12 acre farm before we moved to this site. i was doing almost all of the work myself cultivating 5 acres and managing 7 plus the entire fence line of the parcel. i was managing that with about 25 hours per week. here are some of my projects tropicalselfsufficiency.com/agroforestry/ when i was working that larger parcel i did everything with a BCS tractor, weed eater, machete, sickle, handsaw and chainsaw. this is how i would manage my inner rows with the BCS th-cam.com/video/cVz5p37pI1Q/w-d-xo.html this is how my system looked at year 2.5 th-cam.com/video/8WxjEqwaZMc/w-d-xo.html i would say my systems are very streamlined and straightforward utilizing as much efficiency as possible. ive been doing this over 9 years. we use nature to push our systems forward and come in and manage when its time to pulse the system. we currently manage our rows every 3 months. so 10 hours of work every 3 months sounds pretty minimal to me.
Tools can make or break the whole experience. I started out mulching my property using a shovel and it was stressing my whole upper body. I was fighting the whole way until I saw a video of a person using a pitch fork to move mulch. Oh my, game changer. Helpful video for sure. Makes quick work of vines and green mulch.
youre absolutely right! yeah the pitch fork is a game changer with mulch!
Who makes the holster? The one with 2 pockets? I currently use a Felco holster with a big pocket for pruners and then a small pocket I put a small sickle in. Is there a saw out there better than Felco?
@@LeviWelch-wh5hp Felco Leather Holster (F 911) is the one we use. id love to see where youre putting your sickle. we typically tuck them into our belts or just throw them on the ground when not in use. not ideal, but i could never figure out a sickle holster.
we use silky saws. we use the pocketboy for our belts and sugoi for climbing, bananas and bigger cuts. ive heard zubat is good, but i havent tired it myself. silky is incredible!!
@@tropicagroforestryspencerjulie wow, the F-911 holster looks like a game changer! I've never seen it before and I thought I had all the Felco products memorized....I currently use the "F-910+" holster, it only holds a small sickle. I use Hubbard's Leather Conditioner and then bake the leather with the sickle in it. This conforms the leather to the sickle. I also put in a sharpening stick in the little pouch along with the sickle. This helps lock it in place. Yeah, I still haven't found an ideal way to carry around a large sickle but then again I don't much care for larger sickles....
@@LeviWelch-wh5hp very nice! the double holster is really nice. im actually pondering moving away from the folding handsaw and move towards non folding. i havent decided what id like to keep in my other pocket, maybe just a knife for eating in the field not sure yet
I’ve been using a Niwashi sickle here in my New Zealand garden - light, handle is wooden, blade is serrated, stays sharp. The brand I’d like to try is Okatsune. Wooden handle is red so easy to find. By the descriptions I have seen the blade is tough.
oh awesome! thanks for a recommendation! ill have to see if we can source them out here. glad to hear its Japanese brands youre preferring. we love japanese products. the barnel we use is also japanese, but im assuming they sold recently or something
So dense out there, wow..
Good to see what you guys are up to.. chatted w/ you a bit in the Fellowship w/ Byron.
but is it dense enough? haha! glad to have connected. ive subscribed to your channel. excited to watch as im from socal and havent seen anyone doing agroforestry out there yet
what country is this in,and do the cercropias harbour insect pests they are renoune for white fly and wooly aphids
im in the pacific on an island. the biggest pest that enjoys them here is the queensland longhorn beetle. it literally kills the trees. sure the ants like to hang out on them, not super intense like ive heard in some places, but it doesnt seem like whatever they are farming is that big of a problem. i wouldn't say ive noticed a larger infection of white fly or aphids on that species specifically. tithonia is seasonally covered in white fly though
Looks like a lot of work. Are you sure it needs to be this difficult. My system is always looking for simplicity, this wouldn’t allow an average person to barely look after 1 acre themselves. I look to run my 6 acre food forest myself and I work part time.
Farming is indeed a lot of work. however what weʻre doing actually is not a lot of work, comparatively, and it is the easiest way to do the work. the plants take care of themselves and each other. of course when your working more land its appropriate to scale up and utilize machinery. also less diversity and wider spacing. i could probably manage 3 acres myself without a tractor if i set it up properly.
where are you located? the growth rate is insane here, our weedy trees grow over 10 feet per year. we are also only on rocks with no soil. so we need to work the site appropriately.
i had a 12 acre farm before we moved to this site. i was doing almost all of the work myself cultivating 5 acres and managing 7 plus the entire fence line of the parcel. i was managing that with about 25 hours per week.
here are some of my projects tropicalselfsufficiency.com/agroforestry/
when i was working that larger parcel i did everything with a BCS tractor, weed eater, machete, sickle, handsaw and chainsaw.
this is how i would manage my inner rows with the BCS th-cam.com/video/cVz5p37pI1Q/w-d-xo.html
this is how my system looked at year 2.5
th-cam.com/video/8WxjEqwaZMc/w-d-xo.html
i would say my systems are very streamlined and straightforward utilizing as much efficiency as possible. ive been doing this over 9 years. we use nature to push our systems forward and come in and manage when its time to pulse the system. we currently manage our rows every 3 months. so 10 hours of work every 3 months sounds pretty minimal to me.