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Not much field work going on in Illinois just yet. It's just starting to dry out now but more rain on the way they say for the next 3-4 days.
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Back in the day we rotary hoe'd, but was always a stand alone field pass, never with a cultivator in the ground. Thinking was fast field speed needed for the hoe to do it's job.
 
Maybe he used the rotary hoe to attempt to level the ground a bit for the next cross row pass with the cultivator. Jim
 
Drove fifty miles yesterday to get my weekly Chemo infusion and saw a few hundred acres that had planter marks in them. That's near Sioux Falls in SE South Dakota. We had .35" of rain night before last.
 
I just loved those old Oliver 70's. Same as all the neighbors had with tip-toe on the back and rubber on the front. I can still see those tip-toe wheels glinting in the sun as the field work was being done.
I own 3 of them now!
 
Those were original, Goodyears I think. I cultivated corn part of a summer using Farmall F-12 that had them on, and they were the original tires. Probably not the best tires for muddy conditions, but 1935 was still the infancy of rubber tractor tires.
 
My brother and I thought the rotary hoe was one of the worlds best inventions. No more cultivating 1-2" high corn with a hoe on the tractor to uncover plants without getting off. It cut cultivating time the first time over from days to hours. We ran ours at about 8mph to get a good job. I doubt that it would do much at 2 mph cultivating that small corn.
 
I've seen those type of rear tires before, but not on the fronts. Just look kind of different and neat. I use diamond tread turf tires on my Oliver 60 Standard and John Deere 435, as I mainly use them for mowing. The Oliver 60 Standard used to have some turf tires on it that had an oval pattern. I have not seen any others like it since. Don't even remember the manufacturer now, as they rotted out back in the '70's.
 
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