Posted by rankrank1 on October 19, 2013 at 07:38:45 from (198.228.228.144):
In Reply to: Rotary hoe question posted by kris Jensen on October 12, 2013 at 17:13:29:
Texasmark1 said: (quoted from post at 00:01:17 10/15/13) Thanks. I guess they are made for row crops. What about something like preping for sorghum sudan hay. My drill has 7" spacing. Course if I read the thread correctly you need to be going over 5mph to do any good and if you are trying to straddle your new growth, that could be a daunting task. Am I missing something?
Mark
I have no idea how it would work in hay type crops, but spacing is irrelevant on your drill. With a rotary hoe you run over everything (i.e. your planted row as well as between your rows).
Typically though in row crops (soybeans or corn) they were used in soil to help get freshly planted crops to break through the tough upper crust of soil. Once the crops were up you did not use them anymore (at least we did not). We typically only ever had to use a rotary hoe in those soils that worked down to bug dust (my family's highly technical term there) after plowing and discing. Once planted that bug dust soil would turn to a crusty like layer of concrete with a beating rain at the wrong time. Crops would not want to poke through that tough upper layer of soil so the rotary hoe was used to get a full stand of the crop without stunting the crop by it trying to poke through a concrete like layer of soil.
This post was edited by rankrank1 at 07:41:03 10/19/13.
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