2-row

cleddy · May 26, 2016

This may be a confusing question since a lot of implements are 2-row. I am wondering about the (Very Old) implement pulled behind horses or tractor to cultivate the small corn plants before the farmer started cultivating with a real mounted tractor cultivator.

We have 2 of them and they are very light with maybe 18" steel wheels and hand lift with small shovels and row guards. We always knew it as the two-row. Apparently they were not very useful as ours was discarded maybe 58-59 years ago to the tree junk. I think it may be a McCormick Implement. I could post pictures but just at the moment wondered if anyone else knew what I am talking about.
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Greg K · May 26, 2016

A go devil?

sd pete · May 26, 2016

I was Go Deviling corn in late 50's when 8-10 years old. Was your cultivator for listed corn.

MMDan · May 26, 2016

Sounds like a listed corn cultivator, also known as a go-devil or monitor. My Dad used one in the 50's and up into the 60's. Ours was a John Deere pull type that Dad had adapted to mount on our MM ZA. Worked pretty well. The bell shaped wheels in the front kept the cultivator in the furrow. The discs were set to throw out (away from the corn) to remove the weeds in the middles of the rows on the first pass. The small shovels behind the discs would throw soil under the tent type shields around the corn plants. I liked running it because you didn't need to drive perfect as the bell shaped wheels would keep it down in the furrow. The discs could be reversed on the next pass to throw more soil to the corn as the plants got taller. This was followed with 2 passes with a front mount cultivator if you had time. Banded herbicides did away with the need for it on our farm.

cleddy · May 27, 2016

That sounds like what we have. I had never heard then called that name. We are in Eastern Nebraska and just called it the old "Two-Row" It was used in the 50's up into the 60's with listed corn. In the early 60's we got more land to farm (400 acres) and the 2 row Lister got put in the trees to be replaced with a 4-row pull type John Deere Lister which was more favorable to modification and it the Lister parts were changed to more modern planter style.

My Dad was pain-stakenly dedicated to doing a good job Cultivating the corn 2-3 times with the front mount cultivator which also went from 2-row to 4-row. My brothers and I got some time cultivating soybeans which were drilled in 20" rows but the careful Cultivating of the corn was Sun-up to Sun-Down MY Dad's top Priority task. Cleddy

Farmallb · May 27, 2016

My granddad had a go devil. It was one row, with either 4 or 6 discs on a side. The discs could be turned to throw inside or outside. There was 2 wood runners, one for each side of the row. There may have been a upside down shaped V dirt shield behind the runners and seat, but I don't think si. it had one handle to raise and lower the discs. It is/was in perfect shape in the barn and never used in my lifetime. it would take 2 horses to pull it.

I had a 2 row tractor implement that was worthless on hills, made by IHC pulled by a F-20 that kinda sorda sounds like what some were talking about in here. It DID have the upside down V shaped shields on it. Had dish shaped wheels also.

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