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jsfarmall

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The tractor i will be using is a farmall cub. I got a breakin plow. Now im lookin for which to pull behind that. I have the materials and resources to build a field cultivator for very minimal cost. Or would I be better off with a disc? I will build a field cultivator to pick up with my touch control and a disc would be a drag type. I will break regularly but very little "sod busting". If I go with a disc I would for sure have to buy one. I'm in a silt loam type dirt and will be in some sand for my neighbor. Mainly all I grow is small sweet corn patch and small vegitable garden. What do y'all think?
 
I'd just build the cultivator. A couple passes with one over plowed ground is going to do more than a disk. The light disks that a Cub could pull wouldn't do enough to justify pulling over anything but plowed ground.
AaronSEIA
 
You plow then disk. A cultivator is used between the rows of crops to hoe out weeds not cut up the clods made by a plow
 
here is a couple of suggestions:

spike tooth harrow
field cultivator
hope they open for you: both are pickup on a Farmall hitch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95QmbY7XGcw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77YgyKrmvWY
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETnwa35NGOQ

looks like to me you still will need a disc harrow if you are ever going to prepare a suitable seed bed for a garden.

a old drag disc harrow should be easy to find and cheap even an old horse drawn disc harrow might work.

I have all these tools for my little tractor, but I always use the disc harrow

some people will drag a mid size log about 7-8 ft long over the ground after plowing to help level it out,
more than one way to solve a problem.

in the film with the field cultivator, he had let that dirt get too hard or plowed it wet.
 
Yeah that one video looks like he plowed when it was too wet. In that case a disc would probably be best. No more area than I have a field cultivator might work alright with the factor of being able to build one with practically zero cost. If I run across a disc I for sure want one. Another question is if I swapped shanks on the field cultivator could it be converted to a chisel? Or with me having a plow that theory be a waste of time?
 
Disks pack the soil, field cultivators loosen it. Only time a disk is handy is for cutting sod chunks after plowing it.
 
After plowing I run a single row disc and than run this homemade railroad spike tooth harrow for a smooth seed bed.
You might be able to plow in the fall and let the winter freeze/thaw help break up the soil a bit and then try a cultivator spaced closer together to try to break it up. Look at it this way you are still going to need cultivators to cultivate the corn unless your garden is very small and you cultivate by hand.

Kirk
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That looks like its doin a good job bust in everything up. I do have access to a disc when ever I want but I'm sure y'all understand wanting my own equipment. And that is a good point about the cultivator. Can set it for row cultivating later.
 
I use a disc then a spike toothed harrow as well. The only problem is if you have sod ground, the harrow wants to collect small pieces of sod under it.
 
A Crow Foot packer will bust clods also a rotary hoe would help tear up those clods.I split a 8ft
JD rotary hoe to use behind a garden tractor pretty handy really
 
I use a some weight on the disc and haven't had that problem. You can try plowing in the fall but before you plow run the disc over the field a few times it might help break the sod up a little more than in the spring all you will have to do is run your disc and harrow. Or do it all in the spring. Disc,plow, disc, harrow, plant.

Kirk
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Since you say you have access to a disc and you will probably only be using it once or twice a year I would use that until you run across one at a reasonable cost. You will have to be looking all the time cause when they come up and are priced to sell they go fast.

Kirk
 

Ah, it's nice to lean back and extend a Hand..ain't it....!!

Terminology seems to have changed "slightly"...!!
 

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