Stirred up the garden today

HCooke

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Used the general purpose tiller I bought last fall.
Guy I bought it from called it an 'orchard plow'.
Anyway it did a good job.
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It probably has a factory name, but it will go by different names depending on where you live & what a similar horse-drawn implement was called. Around here (in eastern VA) it's called a spring tooth harrow. And, some folks call it a 2-row cultivator.

Looks like a Dearborn to me.

I pull mine w/ the 740 & bury it to the frame in this sandy soil.
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Bought it western Tenn. Guy called it an orchard plow and referred to those round coils on top as 'sprangs'.
 
" 'sprangs'. "

And your point is.....??? ;)

My wife was born & raised 100 miles north of here (DC) and still has trouble understanding some of my "southernisms".

She said the last time my family was over here she finally gave up & just smiled & nodded at whatever was said.
 
No point. I was describing the tiller on the phone to him (I was at his lot and he was somewhere on his cell phone) I was asking about the implement, trying to describe it to him. At some point in the conversation he said " you mean the one with the big sprangs".
 
in basic training and on KP duty one day I had a PFC from the south tell me to "plug up the milk machine". I had no idea what he meant. why I remember that after 45 years..............
 
"And your point is....." was my attempt at laughing over how us southerners don't see anything unusual about " springs" being pronounced " sprangs" . :).
 
Great Plows if I could have just one implement this would be it, I used mine a few weeks ago to drag off a bunch of brush and tree tops.

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great tools, I have always wanted one, but there must not have been many sold in my area of west KY as I rarely ever see one.

I have this tool, works about the same, but is a heavy load for my little TO-35 Ferguson.

It is an old AC field cultivator with the snap couple hitch cut off and a 3 pt hitch welded on. got it free at the local scrap yard, it has two more diggers and two depth gauge wheels.
had to take the gauge wheels and other two diggers off so the little fergy could pull it.
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I have people ask me from time to time to work up a garden spot. If it's just a small area, I use my grader box. I shorten up the top link so the tines will go as deep as possible. It wont turn the soil like a mole board plow but it will break up the ground enough to work it with a roto tiller. I usually rip it long and cross ways. It pretty much does what the tiller above does. When it's set down all the way, it's about all the 8-n wants. If you had a little bigger tractor and wanted to go deeper, you could make the tines a little longer and would do a nice job of ground breaking. If you really wanted to put a little more effort into it, you could ad a few more tines.
 
nice
Those Ford-Dearborn-Arps branded ones are never cheap here. very popular.
A farm I was helping out had one and I started looking for one of my own at auctions.
They always go for considerably more than I want to spend.
I get by for now with one of those v-shaped cultivators,
after heavily reinforcing the frame so they don't bend in this clay or when I hook and hurl a rock.
 

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