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Save your back and boost productivity and profitability in your market farm operation
You know how rewarding it is to grow and sell your vegetables, strawberries, cut flowers or bedding plants. After all, that’s why you do it. But you also know the hard work involved when you’re stooping and leaning over the rows day in and day out. It’s tiring and hard on your back and legs. And there’s the cumbersome moving of flats and totes along the row with you. Not to mention the hot sun which is the reason your plants grow.
Finally, at the end of the day you’re tired and often sore.
Wouldn’t you often just like a bit of shade while you rest your back?
Are you a market grower already? If so, you know the feelings.
Are you an aspiring market grower who avoids living your dream because of the labor involved?

What if we told you that not only could you rest your back and lie in the shade, but you do it while you work and you could increase your productivity all at the same time?

Personally, I don’t know why every grower doesn’t insist on having one of these machines.”

-J.S. –Wisconsin Drängen Owner

Would feeling human at the end of the day with more time for your family and other pursuits be something that interests you?

A Growing Trend: Profitable Ergonomics

The big picture: You are in the business of helping people lead healthier lives by producing wholesome products for your customers. Ergonomically, however, your own health is at risk due to repeated and prolonged stooping, bending and working in awkward postures for which the human body was not designed. Unfortunately, injuries from repetitive motion stress (RMS) are largely irreversible. Prevention is the key and working on a Drängen machine actually makes you use your body correctly.

Your body was not "engineered" for extended use in stooping and bending positions or for working on your hands and knees. The Drängen Work Cart provides a completely new way of approaching field work and is now used by hundreds of growers in the US, Europe and around the world. Not only does it reduce ergonomic stress, it also measurably improves your labor productivity.

“European studies have considered prone workstations in comparison to both traditional and seated postures. … the evidence seems to be clear for increased efficiency (most reports fall in the 50% increase range), and a clear ergonomic advantage through neutral postures and lower energy expenditure…”

- Robert H Meyer, Paper # 045011, American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers, St. Joseph, MI 2004

Imagine for a moment that you are relaxing your shoulders, back and legs while you are lying comfortably face down on a massage table. Now imagine this table is carrying you over your rows where you are within relaxed arm’s reach of your crop. Your feet are almost effortlessly controlling your movement along the row. Both of your hands are free to make the most efficient use of your effort and time. Your cart is also carrying your transplant flats or your harvest boxes. You feel incredibly relieved that you are not stooped over anymore and no longer dragging things with one hand while having only one hand actually doing the work. Your supply of transplants or harvest containers are moving with you to the end of the row. You won’t have to go back through the field to pick them up. And even when the sun is hot or a light rain is falling, you are comfortable under the canopy mounted over your work cart. “Now this is the way to get work done!”, you are saying to yourself, aren’t you? Who wouldn’t, right?

This is what work on a Drängen work cart feels like. For those like Rich B. who operates a market farm in N. Illinois, his Drängen is indispensible.

Are you the one doing the work on your operation? Are you concerned about the health and welfare of those who work for you? Wouldn’t you like a better, safer, more productive way to do the hand work of transplanting, or weeding or de-blossoming or harvesting your crops? If you’re like most growers, you do want a better life for you, your family and your workers.

A Drängen work cart from Pendragon can help you realize the benefits of safer work conditions, less back troubles, more productivity, increased profit and more family time. The Drängen was invented and perfected by a market grower specifically to make this possible.

“My favorite activity is weeding in the rain. When it’s wet, I can work in places in the field where I can’t walk and the weeds just slip right out of the soil. ”

J. S. -Wisconsin Drängen owner

“The fresh market community is really missing out by being unaware of this machine. I can’t imagine growing vegetables without one.”

-R.B. –Illinois Drängen Owner

Are you often struggling trying to carry out timely planting, weeding or harvesting but wet conditions keep you out of the field? Concerned about compaction? The rubber tracked version goes places that are hard to walk and exerts very little ground pressure.

The Drängen is available as a rubber-tracked or 4 wheel machine with either the standard gasoline engine or a quiet 12 volt electric motor powering the smooth hydraulic drive drives.

“I’m convinced”, you say, “but how do I know if it will suit my operation?”

These are just a few of the ways your Drängen will help you increase your productivity, reduce back injuries and stress and improve your bottom line.

Your Drängen will help you stay in the growing business for as long as you want to without having to quit as your back gives out. Don’t jeopardize your health and ability to grow your produce. Contact us today and begin to take charge of your future.

Drängen Lay-Down Work Carts

A Growing Trend: Profitable Ergonomics