Grape Hoe

On Friday, Hans from H&W Equipment for Vineyard and Winery came with his friend Doug, to bring a grape hoe for us to test. Hans is loaning us the grape hoe to see if it will work for clearing our weeds that grow up in the vine row. This is an alternative and more automated way to remove weeds in the vine row than what we currently do, which manual hoeing. They were on Long Island to retrieve the grape hoe and took the early ferry from Orient Point to New London and arrived on our property around 9:00 a.m. Hans configured the grape hoe and explained how the hydraulics would hook up to our tractor.

Hans made sure that my husband knew how to connect up the hoses and I took a movie of the instructions. He will be shipping us a duck foot plowshare that would go before the grape hoe to make sure that there are no obstructions that would hit the grape hoe. Before sending Hans and Doug back out on the road for their trip home to Ontario, we went to The Dog Watch Cafe so that they could be properly fueled for their long trip home.