rockyridgefarm
Well-known Member
Hey all,
I was gonna try and buy a different hoe for this spring, but anything I look at has the same amount of wear as my 400. One sold on a sale in Juda yesterday for $325 and it would have needed plenty of wheels replaced for bearings and spoons. May as well fix mine up instead.
There's a company up in Canada that makes weld-on replacement spoons for rotary hoes. I talked with them last week and they're sending me more info and a sample spoon. The owner told me that once you get good at it, you can do 5 wheels an hour. The spoons cost $13 per wheel and they have a jig to ensure proper angle for $125. $3 for the bearing. The guy from Hoe-bits said his spoons are longer wearing and more aggressive than the factory spoons.
Entire new wheels cost $34 plus shipping from sloan express. There's about 50 wheels on a 15 foot hoe, but you only really need about 20 of them to be really good (4 of them right over the row)
Has anyone tried to do this?
I was gonna try and buy a different hoe for this spring, but anything I look at has the same amount of wear as my 400. One sold on a sale in Juda yesterday for $325 and it would have needed plenty of wheels replaced for bearings and spoons. May as well fix mine up instead.
There's a company up in Canada that makes weld-on replacement spoons for rotary hoes. I talked with them last week and they're sending me more info and a sample spoon. The owner told me that once you get good at it, you can do 5 wheels an hour. The spoons cost $13 per wheel and they have a jig to ensure proper angle for $125. $3 for the bearing. The guy from Hoe-bits said his spoons are longer wearing and more aggressive than the factory spoons.
Entire new wheels cost $34 plus shipping from sloan express. There's about 50 wheels on a 15 foot hoe, but you only really need about 20 of them to be really good (4 of them right over the row)
Has anyone tried to do this?