Satoh S650G

This Satoh S650G make for four tractors I now have in my collection, still not enough horse power to run the hammer mill maybe number five will be the magic number.



Just before buying this tractor purchased an old loader for $100.00, the Satoh set me back $500.00 the pair mated together will make for a nice utility yard machine. I'll have to cut some trees to free the loader which has sat for the past 20 years.

Wow...That loader is really in there...

I'll probably have to make new standoffs to fit the Satoh S650G as this loader originally came fitted to a Massey 35 which the owner recently sold to another buyer. I missed it by three weeks.

I told everyone that I was going to plant garlic, the seed was expensive and mostly sold out but did manage to get enough to plant half an acre which will be used for my next crop next fall. It will be from this crop that I will have enough to sell.

In the meantime been busy learning how to propagate via cell cultures, test tube plants.

I only have two acres half of which I'll use for personal and commercial garden, then it's my goal is to either purchase a few lots in town on the next tax sale or maybe just rent some property to expand my garlic operation.

Originally Posted by miked

I had a class on plant propagation in 1973 taught by grad. student from Purdue University at my first college Vincennes University. I wish I have paid closer attention or retained those brain cells. I graduated from there with an AAS in Ornamental Horticulture( I did stray from that path).

As I recall we were reproducing tomato plants and used a scalpel to remove a very few cells from the tips of the roots. Procedure included keeping everything sterile including using a Bunsen burner to clean the end of the test tube just before placing the cells in the media that was on the bottom of the tube.

Although I was not directly involved I noticed it was a very successful test of the technique of reproduction. I very much look forward to hearing about your results.

I love the tractors. We have a channel on DirecTV that for farmers and ranchers and they often have programs on vintage farm equipment. My wife and I watched a show on vintage lawn and garden tractors. It was interesting and espesically so for my wife. My wife also grew up on a farm but the family tractor was a water buffalo. She's from Vietnam.

Thanks for sharing you cool stuff. 73, Mike

My friend in Richard in B.C. his wife came from a Filipino farming family they also used water buffalo, apparently these animals are very dedicated to their masters.

From what I have learned about test tube propagation working in a sterile environment and equipment is perhaps the post important part of the process along with moderating temperature and lighting. I'm really looking forward to setting up a small room in my shop for this project.

The Satoh is the last of the toys, next I'll want to build an implement for planting and harvesting as for weeding I'm going to use a technique called flaming.

My set up will be scaled down from the one shown in the video, but the end results will be the same no laborious work on my part.

I'm perhaps the laziest person on this forum,.

As a youth had spent some time in Brannon Lake a boys reform school, I scored a job working in the greenhouse we had a large steam box used to sterilize our potting soil, the hot steam would cook the weed seeds so that they would not germinate.

Without the side effects of being a bad boy have decided to continue my education in horticulture.

Mike I'm not going to compete with you for the tittle of being the most laziest forum member I gladly cede the tittle to you settling for second place.

Mike under normal circumstances garlic does not produce true seed but maybe encouraged by hand picking ( tweezing ) the little bulbils from the flowering scape before they mature. Once removed true seed production begins.

The flowers may be cut from the plant then placed into a bucket of water.

Here's a link to one of the articles I've found on the topic, True Garlic Seed

I used to grow garlic on a farm where I worked. We used the criss-cross planting pattern and mulched heavily, sometimes with hay and other times with bark mulch. Bark is easier to get but you incur lots of mold. We didn't flame the garlic; it was too risky, since we planted on Columbus Day weekend and harvested the following August. Flaming won't damage any weed growth that late in the season and in the spring you risk burning early garlic shoots or setting the row mulch on fire. It's a vigorous plant which requires little weeding and most of it manual, if the mulch cover is decent, removing hardier weeds like Lamb's Quarter and pigweed.

I've had luck growing garlic from the bulbils. The plant can be cultivated from so many different parts that waiting on seed just seems like an unnecessary formality.

Originally Posted by Breakage

I used to grow garlic on a farm where I worked. We used the criss-cross planting pattern and mulched heavily, sometimes with hay and other times with bark mulch. Bark is easier to get but you incur lots of mold. We didn't flame the garlic; it was too risky, since we planted on Columbus Day weekend and harvested the following August. Flaming won't damage any weed growth that late in the season and in the spring you risk burning early garlic shoots or setting the row mulch on fire. It's a vigorous plant which requires little weeding and most of it manual, if the mulch cover is decent, removing hardier weeds like Lamb's Quarter and pigweed.

I've had luck growing garlic from the bulbils. The plant can be cultivated from so many different parts that waiting on seed just seems like an unnecessary formality.

I have very god snow coverage to covering with mulch is unnecessary.

Your right about garlic being a vigorous plant only needing to weed during the early stages of growth this is one reason I choose this type of crop.

Garlic will stand up to flame weeding the plants maybe stressed for a day but fully recover.

Some pictures of my garlic this crop will be replanted in the fall next year should have enough plants to fill the whole garden plot.

Pats tomatoes

Originally Posted by miked

The garlic is looking good. Mike

Thanks Mike, the garlic planted in the fall is a month earlier than the asparagus.

I have a couple of rows of something called music garlic to the left of the Russian, its just now popping through the ground. I won't be replanting the music.

The Satoh tractor project was an Internet disaster, I try not to blame other people for my mistakes but this case is an exception.

The guy from another forum stated and showed pictures to the fact that he had installed a Kubota V2203 Kubota diesel engine into a Satoh tractor, haveing recently purchased the indenticle tractor went out and purchased a V2203 Kubota diesel engine.

Turn out there's two V2203 Kubota diesel engines that have nothing in common other than the model designation, mine is a DI ( Direct Injected Block ) and the one the forum posted had installed was an indirect injected block.

The newer Tier 4 indirect diesel engines are junk, I would rather tow the Satoh to the landfill before spending money on an IDI engine that would give me a lifetime of grief.

For the past couple of weeks been working on the Simplicity 9020, the Onan engine has been completely rebuilt with .010 pistons, standard crankshaft etc. etc. Just waiting on an oil seal for the rear main bearing plate to arrive in the mail.

Onan engines are another story, I now have two aluminum blocks and three of the more preferable cast iron blocks. If you went around buying up cheap $100.00 RV gen sets then dismantling them for parts you could make a killing on ebay once you know which parts interchange.

Last year I had purchased a Simplicity 9020 with a seized engine, spent most of this year looking for either a good running Onan or parts ended up rebuilding the engine that came with the tractor which still needs a carburetor and muffler.

Muffler for a lousy garden tractor is like $375.00 before shipping.

This morning a fellow I know gave me a heads up on the Allis Chalmers 720, picture below. The tractor is a 10 hour drive from home, decided to call the owner up and git the 720 for a really really good price.

Comes with belly mower and a set of pallet forks.

Even though it's branded ad an Allis Chalmers product the tractor is same as the Simplicity 9020 some sheet metal is different.