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Row crop cultivator sweeps

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What style sweeps do you, or have you, run on a row crop cultivator? I pulled an IH 463 cultivator out of someone's fence row recently and some of the sweeps are bent and need replaced. Started looking at sweeps online and I had no idea there were so many styles. Our ground is silt-loam and was moldboard plowed and disced, almost no crop residue to contend with. One field was red clover and grass up to a few weeks ago so there will be roots to contend with there this year. Planting sweetcorn on 38", cultivator has noble rollkng shields.

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We used 8" half sweeps next to row then 8" full sweeps rest of way, once in a while on clear back might stick a 10" there. That was with wide rows, 30" the 10" was just too wide for that.
 
make sure you get the right angle sweep, many of the old cultivators used 40 degree sweeps while vibra shanks use 47 degree sweeps and it doesn't work to use ones with the wrong angle
 
All depends how much dirt you want to move...can run anything from 2 inch spikes to sweeps wide enough to undercut the entire width. With sweeps, you generally want to run halves next to the row so as not to cut roots of the plant.
 
All I have ever heard of is one angle for row crop cultivator shovels and a vibra shank does not sound like a row crop cultivator. The bolt spacing for a row crop sweep is differend than a field cultivator sweep and that is what the vibrashank I believe is. All the shanks except a full spring tooth shank are adjustable for tilt of the sweep and run them as flat as you can and if you go to wide even tho they are flat the wings of the sweep will still be up out of the ground. For the spring type shank there was a spacer made to go on top bolt to give correct tilt to sweep.
 
pull your head out of the sand before you shoot off your mouth, for the most part the rest of the world isn't farming with unstyled A's anymore, 133,153,183 IH row crop cultivators all use the same shank as the field cultivators, now if he didn't know that and bought sweeps at the local farm store he might end up with the wrong ones, I was trying to prevent that headache for him.
 
I have never ever heard of a cultivator sweep bending. Not that it makes any difference but don't you mean they are worn down?
 
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