c series hitch questions

FM

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Dreaming about buying a super c-230 for some market
gardening. Is it possible to work an underbelly cultivator
seperately from the fast hitch on any of these? I think i
read that the 230 is the only one capable. I want to use
the same tractor for cultivating and planting without
changing anything.

Mike
 
You will want the rear tooling for your garden crops and with the fast hitch its easy to change your big problem is finding the planter and then the plares for garden seeds. If you are determined to plant the seeds you will need to get special planters for that then put them on a tool bar with the fast hitch set-up then you can vary the row spacing as you dont need 40 in rows for garden seeds. Your best bet would get a Cub type tractor to do one row for cultivating. Just how much planting and what crops do you plan to grow.
 
I am actually considering several different options. One is the cultivator/planter setup mentioned. Another is to set this one up with lillistons or hillers in the middle and then having the option of shank or tine cultivators in the back, or a planter, or whatever. I am trying to keep this one versatile.

I am working on a deal to work with a guy who grows 20 acres of vegetables to grow some stuff for a small CSA in exchange for helping him/working with him. He grows a lot of salad crops so there will be a lot of work there plus me growing tomatoes, cukes, etc for csa. I have an A with a one row cultivator and he has a super A with a rigged up toolbar cultivator. I am hoping to switch that to a budding basket weeder and and get a better setup for beet knives. Then have the super c setup for planting, fertilizing, etc. I just want it to be more of an all around tractor. He has a newer new holland loader tractor but i don't see the point using it to plant when a $1500 super c will work.
 
(quoted from post at 17:19:21 10/16/14) Dreaming about buying a super c-230 for some market
gardening. Is it possible to work an underbelly cultivator
seperately from the fast hitch on any of these? I think i
read that the 230 is the only one capable. I want to use
the same tractor for cultivating and planting without
changing anything.

Mike

I'd go for a SC or 200 due to the Touch Control arms they have. It was an option on the 230, but I don't think most had the TC. You can find front mounted cultivators and planters for the TC, and Fast Hitch plows, disks, etc. for the rear. Not all SCs or 200s had Fast Hitch, but many (most) did in our area of NE Iowa, and I don't believe implements for them are hard to find. The 230/240s also had front mount cultivators, but I don't think they were as plentiful as the ones that fit a C/SC/200. I think there was even one that Mom just left when she sold the farm because there were so many that they were not worth much.
 
The 230 is the only one that can NOT, unless you add some aftermarket hydraulic valves to the system to control things independently.

The C, Super C, and 200 all have independently-operable touch control arms, and then the fast hitch is independent from those.
 
I have 2 Super C's. One configured to cultivate and side dress the other for tillage. Each wheel width and weighted accordingly. I'm too old to be swapping around attachments.

The Super C,200, and early 230 can be set up so that the left and right touch controls work separate or together. As in I've set one up with a planter on one side and a cutivator on the other. In effect a one row tractor.
Fast hitch is always independent from front.
 
Your on the right track. I have the mounted planters that worked fine. Mounted those to plant then off the mount cultivators. I've since found a C251 fast hitch planter so I don't have to reconfigure tractor. C251 and mounted planters are perfect for all the big seeds. Not so much for the small. I'm looking at the small seed planters and going to mount 2 of those to a fast hitch tool bar.
 
One more thing on the front mount planters and cultivators... the fertilizer attachment for the planter is also used for side dressing with the cultivator... pretty handy, don't need to take it off except maybe the boxes for better visibility.
Never thought about the planter on one side and cultivator on the other. Might be pretty handy for a garden or vegetable farm.
 

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