Iron gardening tools versus copper gardening tools: What we were never taught
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His attention focused on copper. Copper rich soils retained their ground moisture well, and so he began to experiment with copper ploughs as well as other equipment made from copper. To begin with he merely covered an iron plough's cutting surface with copper sheeting and made tests with this. The tests took place under controlled conditions, dividing the field up into segments, some of which were ploughed with the prevailing iron machinery and some with the adapted copper machinery. The results proved very favorable to the copper, which showed a 17-35 per cent increase in harvest.
A large firm, Farmleiten - Gut Heuberg, near Salzburg, showed an increase of 50 per cent. On a hill farm outside Kitzbuhl tests showed an increase in the potato crop of 12.5 times the quantity sown. Throughout there was an increase in quantity, but also a marked increase in quality. The baking potential of corn was increased, and potatoes were not attacked by the Colorado beetle, though neighboring potato fields ploughed in the more usual way were still attacked, and the nitrogen requirements of the soil were reduced. During 1951-52 controlled tests with the copper plough were made by the Farming Chemical Test Station in Linz. The tests concerned the cultivation of oats, wheat, kohlrabbi and onions. Certain sections were worked only with iron machinery, others with iron machinery and added copper sulphate, and a third area with only copper machinery. In certain tests the copper sulphate was exchanged with pure copper dust. A significant increase was observed in these tests also.
Rumors of these successes spread to farmers around Salzburg where many of the tests had taken place, and they started to call the copper-wonder 'the golden plough'. It was manufactured in large quantities but soon considerable opposition arose from an unexpected quarter.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copper_toxicity
I'd be careful on erratic claims. Copper is a hazardous substance in larger quainties. Although traces of it are good for the body. But copper mines are known to have a big run off environmentally. https://old.danwatch.dk/undersogelseskapitel/impacts-of-copper-mining-on-people-and-nature/
There is the price by comparison, and it is more precious by comparison to alloys. Alloys are used today. Since this article.
Most copper tools are in fact bronze, copper plus tin makes the alloy bronze, harder wearing. It can prevent the slugs and snails on your lettuces. No why, they feed on irons, like ourselves. Of course it carries carry toxicity concerns, where neurological disorders like Parkinsons can developed from it. Bronze is a bigger offender of toxicity. As a metal it gets diseased. Where the metal corrodes and the green corrosion spreads to other metals.
Laugh and these articles. It was the wood plough on reading. Turkey had copper since the cradle of civilization. But they were still using the wooden ploughs. Suddenly the inventor needed to fix onto the tractors, using copper, bronze. Because it was supposedly so much better for something. But I cannot completely think of what?
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I have supplemented copper recently and found huge health/skin/hair/nail benefits. So it is individual, too.
We ingest trace quantities, like zinc offer benefits. But I am wary of it.
I was a stupid little shit of a kid. I had a goldfish, it survived my cat, my cat knocked over my goldfish bowl and the little fish was on the floor for hours and hours. It didn't survive me putting copper in its fishbowl. I put a few copper coins into it to give it more colour, and it died a few days later. The copper went green immediately. I was so sick and sad for the poor fish. It survived the damn cat, out of the bowl on the ground for hours. But my stupidity, innocent of course, was fatal.
I am wary of copper. It has concerns. Yes it is a supplement in trace quantities, we ingest it in our water. There are copper supplements, like zinc. You could even beat the breathalyser test by copper oxide.
But that fish, it was poisoning. Read the link on its mining.
Representatives from the local agricultural society also started to warn farmers against using the copper plough as it could cause over-production which would give lower prices. Thereby their production and use were totally halted. In 1950, Schauberger, together with engineer Rosenberger, however, obtained a patent on a method of coating the active surfaces of farm machinery with copper.
Representatives from the local agricultural society also started to warn farmers against using the copper plough as it could cause over-production which would give lower prices. Thereby their production and use were totally halted. In 1950, Schauberger, together with engineer Rosenberger, however, obtained a patent on a method of coating the active surfaces of farm machinery with copper.
It was shown that if a small amount of rust was added to the water in these experiments, no charge developed; the water became 'empty. He abstracted this finding to the use of iron ploughs and thought their effect on harvest yields must relate to this. When the iron plough moves through the soil, it becomes warm, and the disturbed soil is covered with a fine dust of iron particles that quickly rust. He had previously noticed that iron-rich ground was dry, and that the turbines in power stations 'discharged' water. The conclusion of all these observations was that iron had a detrimental effect on the water characteristics within the soil; it expelled the water and 'drained' it of its power.
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The Treasury director went on: I must make myself clear. The fact is, I have an agreement with the nitrogen industry whereby if I can stimulate the farmers to use more nitrogen than usual I receive a royalty for each sack being sold. If now the farmers were to change to the copper plough the demand would permanently diminish, and thus I need royalties from your ploughs as compensation.
Use your urine mixed with 20 parts water and you got perfect nitrogen fertilizer .
Start collecting copper, silver and if possible gold!
Treat the soil with copper shavings.
The electrolysis also damages the microscopic life in the soil and this leads to an even higher temperature occurring in addition to the iron blades' friction with the soil. It is especially with iron that these phenomena occur.
With ploughs of wood, copper and other so-called 'biologically magnetic' materials, the soil's magnetic field is not disturbed. The conclusion that Schauberger drew from these observations, was that another material other than iron should be used for farming equipment.
Copper compositions are harmful for mould that could harm plants. However, plants could suffer from some copper compositions too. Usually, to fight mould, copper hydroxide, sulfate or chloroxide are used, since they are not harmful for plants or not consumed by them. Using copper tools will leave copper particles in soil that could react with soil creating compositions that could be consumed and stored by plants.
So, using copper tools you will get less probability of mould, so possibly better crop, but also you risk to get a crop with higher than necessary copper content.
As for me, I prefer titanium garden tools. Cheap, light, strong, durable and neutral for living beings.