middle buster

wellmax99 · Jan 20, 2016

just asking here:

what is the purpose of this tool?????????????
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just loosen up the middles of the rows??????
does not appear it would throw dirt up to the plants in the rows

would make walking down the middles rough picking sweet corn or picking beans or peas.

mb58 · Jan 20, 2016

You use this when you have disked or harrowed your ground and have it good and level. This middle buster will then form up one complete row behind the tractor, or if spread out wide, as this one appears to be, you have to straddle one of the middles (trenches) that you made in the first pass and go in the opposite direction. This would make two complete rows. Of course, the rows are then drug off with a harrow and planted to whatever crop you wanted.

wellmax99 · Jan 20, 2016

Thanks MB,

then they are use as kind of a row builder,

if you did this in the fall, I guess the ground would dry out faster for spring planting.

in the spring just knock the top of the row off and plant.

w1ebb · Jan 20, 2016

I use my single middle buster to point ditches to carry off rainwater and to bury waterlines, etc.

Scott

brutus49DC · Jan 20, 2016

Most were used in the western states and drying out for planting wasn't a problem, finding moisture to germinate crops was, I bought a 2 row case lister planter at Dooley's sale at Custer, SD last sept. should look neat behind a CC at shows in the Mn, Ia, western SD where such things were a rarity

RN · Jan 20, 2016

Dry ground corn- Plant in bottom of the furrow, any little bit of rain trickles to bottom center from side. plant north to south and the hot sun is shaded from center a couple hours a day, less moisture lost for small plants just sprouting and being a couple inches lower in ground helps with slight ground water amount. Corn secondary roots aren't exposed after second or third pass cultivating when cultivator shields are removed or up. Tomato transplanting can be done, tobacco sometimes done in center furrows, potatoes at times. For the moist ground around river bottoms, plant on top in spring.

mb58 · Jan 21, 2016

Yes. When cotton was king here in the south, all fields were "rowed up". Dragging off the top of the row left you with a good, high bed to plant on. It allowed for the ground to warm up quicker and it kept the seed or the newly emerged plant up out of the water when it rained.

Leroy · Jan 21, 2016

As it is set up it would be for following with a 2 row planter to plant in the bottom for water concervation in dry areas that any little rain would run toward the plant. If it were for planting on top for too much rain there would be an odd number of bottoms to make those raised bedds that the water would run away from the plants on.

casecollectorsc · Jan 21, 2016

Like this one of mine on a DC.....

Kirk-NJ · Jan 22, 2016

As Leroy said maybe used with a planter. This one is a ferguson and was used to plant Milo in Kansas. I use my one row middle buster to lay off rows for taters and to dig them up. I don't see why this 2 row wouldn't work the same way only faster. Why not add it to your collection?

Kirk

brutus49DC · Jan 22, 2016

No mine is a pull type on steel, I about bought a lister like the one in your picture at LeSuer for $125, many years ago, I had a down payment on one near Witchita but the guy got killed in an accident and I never got it, I do have a two mounted planter that is raised with the motor lift, just never got around to getting it mounted

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