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Machinery: The Barreiros 4000-v tractor

By Lisard Bellod · 21 Sep 2009

Original article from the archive, published on 21 September 2009. We preserve the author's story; References to services, prices and activities are historical.

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A rotary cultivator is enough to prepare a vegetable garden for planting, but… with fruit or nut trees, or a larger area, it is difficult to keep up using a rotary cultivator alone.

tractor

Think of growing olive trees as growing peppers on a much larger scale: spraying, ploughing and harvesting all become bigger jobs.

Barreiros tractor

Well after this explanation of sizes we present to you our BARREIROS 4000-V an old, but powerful tractor that accompanies us on our daily adventure. And it also helps us to have the land in good condition. to plant all calçots by Cal Sotada 😉 Soon we'll need to spray the olive trees, so we'll explain the process and what the equipment does.

The Price of a 2nd hand tractor can range from the name change cost to thousands of Euros. The important thing is to hear how the engine runs and the hours of use, since tractors are not measured by km traveled, but by the hours they have been used.

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