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Fuddy Duddy 11-05-2012 04:43:26 75.221.155.180 Report to Moderator	Might be a dumb question. Why would a need a 'Cultivator'? I'm looking at a couple in my area. one has 6 shanks $250. The other at half the driving distance has 12 shanks $475 (with new paint). I have a two bottom plow and a pull behind disk. What would a Cultivator do for me? Untitled URL Link [Reply]   [No Email]
maxwell99 11-07-2012 18:57:39 208.66.244.245 Report to Moderator	Re: Cultivator in reply to Fuddy Duddy, 11-05-2012 04:43:26   Fuddy, I also have this tool, it is more of a field cultivator, does a great job. as you can see i have a lot of the older farm tools, but do not have a tractor tiller. have used one and they do a great job of preparing the soil for planting. [Reply]  [No Email]
dbNga 11-07-2012 06:32:01 205.174.22.27 Report to Moderator	Re: Cultivator in reply to Duke83, 11-05-2012 04:43:26   That cultivator in the pic is what I'd call a true cultivator. It is just for tilling the soil after planting to uproot the weeds. The cultivator I have is often called an all purpose plow. The shanks are spring loaded and I can use it to bust virgin/packed soil or cultivate. It can master red clay a lot better than a disc ever thought of. In any application, it would be a well appreciated tool. [Reply]  [No Email]
maxwell99 11-05-2012 15:16:59 208.66.244.245 Report to Moderator	Re: Cultivator in reply to Fuddy Duddy, 11-05-2012 04:43:26   I use my little one row cultivator a lot. also have a 2 row i use sometimes, it works the dirt up good and levels the garden. You can not have too many tools for your tractor. [Reply]  [No Email]
BMACK518N 11-05-2012 13:04:22 65.114.24.58 Report to Moderator	Re: Cultivator in reply to Fuddy Duddy, 11-05-2012 04:43:26   I use a cultivator for weed control and aeriation between the tree rows at my tree farm. [Reply]  [No Email]
russb wa 11-05-2012 10:30:08 67.185.6.72 Report to Moderator	Re: Cultivator in reply to Fuddy Duddy, 11-05-2012 04:43:26   I have the Fergeson with 11 or 12 shanks. It works good for row cropping when the plants are low growning, like beets. The way I use it, set the wheels on tractor close 48 or 52 inches and put a large sweep behind each rear tire. Also, you space the rows at or close to the width of the tires, so the arrangement of the rows fits the tractor/cultivator. Now, this only works for plants that fit under the tractor, because it is setup to straddle a row. It works really slick. It is also possible to set the wheels very wide and straddle two rows, using sweeps behind each rear tire and one sweep in the middle. You do the math. Row spacing needs to be precise. The other setup is for driving between rows, for tomatoes and stuff that you can't straddle with the tractor. There are other uses, like preparing for planting, etc, etc. [Reply]  [No Email]
Stephenscity 11-05-2012 08:35:35 72.73.35.252 Report to Moderator	Re: Cultivator in reply to Fuddy Duddy, 11-05-2012 04:43:26   All joking aside. The only disadvantage I would see to that is if we are talking about a farm tractor that is a lot of weight running back over your ready to plant ground. I would be concerned about compactin the soil. Just a thought. [Reply]  [No Email]
NoNewParts 11-05-2012 08:00:55 67.240.145.25 Report to Moderator	Re: Cultivator in reply to Fuddy Duddy, 11-05-2012 04:43:26   very handy I have a couple of those v-shaped 1 row cultivators and use it in my garden a lot. to work the ground, when plowing would be overkill the open center makes good rows with a slight hill for planting to cultivate when the plants are young and since I HATE weeding, I plant my garden with the rows so far apart that I can drive an N with the cultivator between the rows to keep the grass away when the plants are mature. working ground with it, then a drag or a steady hand on a landscape rack makes a very nice surface also a very good implement to use to break in an engine and seat the rings [Reply]  [No Email]
Ultradog MN 11-05-2012 06:06:13 184.100.104.240 Report to Moderator	Re: Cultivator in reply to Fuddy Duddy, 11-05-2012 04:43:26   If I could have only ONE tool to hook behind my tractor it would be one of those cultivators. Till up your garden, rake brush into piles, break up the gravel and with a log behind it fill pot holes in your driveway. My cousin has one that he uses behind his 30 hp John Deere. It's all he uses on his garden every year. Thay are great tools and that is a good price. [Reply]  [No Email]
Tim PloughNman Daley 11-05-2012 05:53:53 24.180.180.50 Report to Moderator	Re: Cultivator in reply to Fuddy Duddy, 11-05-2012 04:43:26   Duddy- Back in the day, there were no fertilizers, weed control chemicals, and bug control chemicals. A Cultivator was used to weed between the rows when they were young and not too high to drive the tractor over. Usually set up as a two-row hoeing machine, 11 shanks were the standard spring shank type. Rigid shanks, or Field Cultivators were used to break up previously planted fields that may just need the crust broken up and a plow may be too much. Once you have a garden or food plot that is regularly used every year, you can usually get away with either discing or setting the cultivator up to just break the soil enough to create a seed bed. That saves you from having to plow under the old growth then having to disc then preparing a seed bed with a drag tooth. Another advantage to a cultivator is that it will leave nice, straight little furrows to plant seed. When a farmer bought a new Ford tractor, a plow was usually also purchased and a cultivator was the second most purchased item... Tim 'PloughNman' Daley(MI) [Reply]  [No Email]
Fuddy Duddy 11-05-2012 06:04:26 75.221.155.180 Report to Moderator	Re: Cultivator in reply to Tim PloughNman Daley, 11-05-2012 05:53:53   "Another advantage to a cultivator is that it will leave nice, straight little furrows to plant seed" I guess maybe that is why I asked the question. Once I have finished plowing and disking I have been using a hoe to make the furrows. Thats a lots of work. I know there was something to do that job. I just wasn't sure what. Would this be the best tool for the job. Or is there something else better to make the furrows? [Reply]  [No Email]
JMOR 11-05-2012 05:42:46 72.181.173.171 Report to Moderator	Re: Cultivator in reply to Kurt-NEPA, 11-05-2012 04:43:26   He is probably correct. Hard for me to think that I need a tool that I don't know what it is for. However, now that we are past money burning a hole in your pocket, I have two of them that haven't been used in decades. Back when farming involved a lot of row crops, the cultivator was used for weed eradication between rows of corn, cotton, maze, etc. But row cropping in general & mechanical weed removal is pretty much history now, given way to dense planting practices and chemicals. [Reply]  [No Email]
Stephenscity 11-05-2012 04:53:58 72.73.35.252 Report to Moderator	Re: Cultivator in reply to CAMPBELL, 11-05-2012 04:43:26   Quoting Removed, click Modern View to see If ya don't know probably nothing :lol: :lol: :lol: :oops: [Reply]  [No Email]
Fuddy Duddy 11-05-2012 04:59:54 75.221.155.180 Report to Moderator	Re: Cultivator in reply to Stephenscity, 11-05-2012 04:53:58   Thanks a lots.. Boy, There has to be one in every Bunch. [Reply]  [No Email]