Absolutely no intention of running a tiller with the SA.
My little red tractor is in fine tune, idles perfectly. And it has to be used at idle to cultivate the first time or two with very small and tender plants. This old clay ground can be tough and many times when going through a rough spot...I think I can actually see the fan blade momentarily stop as it almost chokes the engine. Oil pressure is not present on the gauge and the engine just clucks along. I doubt the head has ever been off the engine and I am sure it has been ran this way since 1952.....evidently with no ill results. I would be pleased to raise the RPM"s to the point that good steady oil pressure showed and the machine would crawl through the garden. I admit that perhaps my old ways are a waste of time and effort...but I just think things grow better when the ground is kept loose and arable. I don"t live in the Dust Bowl region and not concerned about conserving moisture...we generally have plenty of rain. It is obvious that crops don"t have to be cultivated.....corn and bean operators proved that long ago.....but they use plenty of herbicides to make that happen. I also think those crop varieties they raise have been genetically bred (increased hardiness) to grow under less than ideal conditions. Not many home vegetable strains have been so developed.
So, I continue to cultivate to kill weeds, keep the soil loose and to side dress fertilizer as well. Once the plants are up to 8" or 10", you can plow hell out of them and not worry about covering them up. An SA/100/130/140 et al will allow a person to throw the hoe away...as you can literally "hoe" the garden with the cultivators if you know what you"re doing.
How I"d love to have a 25 horse offset with a hydro tranny, live power and power steering and a 3 point for handiness. It would be great to have draft control on the cultivators too so they"d always run at the exact depth. Oh well...it"ll never be built...but I"d like to have one.
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Today's Featured Article - Madison's County - by Anthony West. Philip Madison has been a good friend of mine for quite some time. He has patiently suffered my incessant chit chat on the subject of tractors for longer than I care to remember, and on many occasions he has put himself out, dropped what ever it was he was doing, to come and lend a hand cranking handles, or loading a find onto a trailer. Although he himself has never actually owned or restored a tractor, he was always enthusiastic and always around helping with other peoples projects.
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