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Picked this thing out and it was in a mess. No idea which way it should pull since that is nothing hooked to it. It has those muti spoke wheels that have a curve in them. So do you pull it sot the tip hits the ground and goes in to dig or so it goes the other way. I am thinking sharp in first so it digs but since I have never had one or seen one used not sure.
Thanks
 
Curve on the spoon should be "up" at the rear of the wheel. Fairly necessary piece of equipment around here even in the no-till era. If we get a big rain as beans or corn are trying to emerge the rotary hoes come out in force. They may not get used every year but are always on standby.
 
Old you are correct.The points go in and tend to 'flip' the soil to break crust and also to tear out tiny(almost invisible) weeds.I use one every year.Drive fast (4th on H/M Farmall)It's like a cultivation and the corn seems to just jump out of the ground.
 
This area no corn or row crops just figure it might make a good thing to do food plots
 
Yup, that's the right way to pull a rotary hoe while working. However, pull it backwards when traveling between fields. Prevents tearing up your field drive, or gravel road.
Pull it as fast as you can stay in the seat. There should be so much dirt flying that you can't see the hoe itself. Fourth gear on an H or M is too slow. Fourth on a Red A,B,C, or an Orange CA or WD is about right.
Willie
 
Before chemicals became popular they were used in row crops for early weed control and to break crusted soil for easier germination. New varieties of corn seem to break through easier. They have little need now and for this reason they are plentiful and cheap.

I doubt it will be of any value on food plots.
 
The "spoons" go forward.

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We use one to <a href="http://youtu.be/NP4OfmMA6eA">break up the large dirt clods</a> before using the cultipacker.
 
the teeth to dig in is cultivating direction but they were advertised as for pulling backward to use instead of a cultipacker. Have never tried that as always had plenty of packers. In starting a new hay field it would be ideal to follow the disk to get the seedbed for the grass. fine and firm as backwards they will help break up any clods.
 
Yes, 4th on a regular Farmall h or m is too slow at 5.1 mph or so. Many people added 9 speeds from Heisler or M&amp;W to the Farmall h and m tractors in order to get a suitable speed for rotary hoeing. There was also an option from Farmall available for a high speed 4th gear from the factory but most are not this way. Farmall fixed this issue with the Super h and Super M series as it had a faster 4th gear at 6.8 mph. I always heard 6.5 to 7.5 mph was the required minimum speed to get one to work effectively.

Also if there is no bent hook left at the tips of the tines then the rotary hoe implement is worn out and will no longer work properly. When the tines become worn to the point that they are totally straight tines; then the implement becomes a aerator.
 
Nice pic. I have seen them at the auction but never knew what to do with them. Didn't know about the high speed either.

Next question is what is the width of yours and how many ponies are you using to pull it?

Thanks,
Mark
 
This rotary hoe is approximately 14 feet wide.

The tractor is a <a href="http://www.tractordata.com/farm-tractors/000/0/2/25-john-deere-a.html">1952 Model A</a> with approximately 34HP at the drawbar.
 
(quoted from post at 10:39:42 10/14/13) This rotary hoe is approximately 14 feet wide.

The tractor is a &lt;a href="http://www.tractordata.com/farm-tractors/000/0/2/25-john-deere-a.html"&gt;1952 Model A&lt;/a&gt; with approximately 34HP at the drawbar.
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James
The tractor in your photo with the rotary hoe looks like a 70 not an A.
 
You"re exactly right.

The tractor in the photo is "1011" one of our 1953 Model 70s.

The tractor in the video is "52" our 1952 Model A.
 
Thanks. I guess they are made for row crops. What about something like preping for sorghum sudan hay. My drill has 7" spacing. Course if I read the thread correctly you need to be going over 5mph to do any good and if you are trying to straddle your new growth, that could be a daunting task. Am I missing something?

Mark
 
(quoted from post at 00:01:17 10/15/13) Thanks. I guess they are made for row crops. What about something like preping for sorghum sudan hay. My drill has 7" spacing. Course if I read the thread correctly you need to be going over 5mph to do any good and if you are trying to straddle your new growth, that could be a daunting task. Am I missing something?

Mark
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I have no idea how it would work in hay type crops, but spacing is irrelevant on your drill. With a rotary hoe you run over everything (i.e. your planted row as well as between your rows).

Typically though in row crops (soybeans or corn) they were used in soil to help get freshly planted crops to break through the tough upper crust of soil. Once the crops were up you did not use them anymore (at least we did not). We typically only ever had to use a rotary hoe in those soils that worked down to bug dust (my family's highly technical term there) after plowing and discing. Once planted that bug dust soil would turn to a crusty like layer of concrete with a beating rain at the wrong time. Crops would not want to poke through that tough upper layer of soil so the rotary hoe was used to get a full stand of the crop without stunting the crop by it trying to poke through a concrete like layer of soil.
 
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