garden tractor plow

maxwell99 · Jun 2, 2014

sure wish I had a farmall cub or AC "G" with front cultivators.

my sweet corn patches are coming up fine, but it's been dry here and the grass is coming up just as fast.

do they make a grass killer for sweet corn?????
anyway I did not use any,

working around to the row with a rear tine tiller, but that is a lot of work for me.

I have a one row harrow and cultivator for my little TO35 fergy, but cannot get that close to the row with out plowing up the row. guess all the connection points are worn, so the hitch is loose,

I do have adjustable stabilizers, may try tightening them up and see if I can hold the row better.

front cultivators sure are nice for garden or truck patch work.

may just plant some more corn later, some for me, some for the coons, some for the grass.

got 4 rows plowed and came to the house tired,
that may be all the corn mama bear has this year, unless I come up with an easier way to cultivate.

Brendon-KS · Jun 2, 2014

The best garden cultivator that I have used is an old David Bradley walk-behind. When the crops are small I have some knives that can be run right beside the row then when things get bigger these are replaced with hilling plows to bury weeds in the row. It is small and light enough to get be close and accurate but big and fast enough to get the job done quickly. It gets a lot of use in my 1/4 acre garden.

maxwell99 · Jun 2, 2014

Nice rig, plus your corn looks good,

I finished my first plowing today, now I need a rain.

I was able to use the adjustable stabilizers to lock in the one row cultivator so it did not plow up the rows.

Corn is only about 3" tall so it's easy to cover it up with any speed. I had to run in first gear low range and that is slow on the little Ferguson.

But I got her done, much easier than the rear time tiller.

Bret4207 · Jun 3, 2014

(quoted from post at 15:43:14 06/02/14) The best garden cultivator that I have used is an old David Bradley walk-behind. When the crops are small I have some knives that can be run right beside the row then when things get bigger these are replaced with hilling plows to bury weeds in the row. It is small and light enough to get be close and accurate but big and fast enough to get the job done quickly. It gets a lot of use in my 1/4 acre garden.

DB, Simplicity, Bolens...used to be a whole buncha outfits that had rigs like those pictured. Gravely and Planet Jr too. As far as I'm concerned they were the next best thing to a horse hoe for some people and a lot better than a horse hoe for most! Getting hard to find steels and shanks for them these days though. Too bad.

Brendon-KS · Jun 3, 2014

Yeah, I'm a fan of these old walk-behinds. In
addition to two DB's I have a couple of Wards
machines (very similar to Simplicity; maybe even
made by them) and a Roths Garden King. The Roths
is my favorite since my grandfather bought it for
me 25+ years ago but it is a real brute to operate
so the DB's get most of the use, especially for
row-crop work. The Roths is typical of the "build
it to last forever" mindset that most
manufacturers have since gone away from in favor
of reducing cost. Details like all cast iron
construction and ten Timken bearings in a
"consumer product" isn't something you find much
of anymore.

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