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Rotary Hoe? Anyone ever heard of this?

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Tommy D.

03-01-2000 07:07:56




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Been meaning to post this question for some time, just haven't had time:
A couple of years ago, I purchased an old farmer's tractor and implement inventory. I got a 2 row cult., 5' bush-hog, 2-16 turning plow, 6' multi-purpose plow, and something I'd never seen anything like before.
It is about 6' wide, and has rows of areator-like spikes. It fits on the 3 point and looks like an oversized areator, but the spikes are too close together to areate grass. A couple of folks told me it was a "Rotary Hoe", and was used to either thin cotton, or break up hard packed fields between the time the seed was sown and the time it came up.
Anyone ever heard of such? I can probably post a picture if need be.

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Tommy D.

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Mark H

03-02-2000 21:49:10




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 Re: Rotary Hoe? Anyone ever heard of this? in reply to Tommy D., 03-01-2000 07:07:56  
Tom we call it a crust-buster. We have heavy clay soil that can rival asphalt under certian conditions. it works well to help bring sprouting seeds through the crust.



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Mark H

03-02-2000 21:47:00




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 Re: Rotary Hoe? Anyone ever heard of this? in reply to Tommy D., 03-01-2000 07:07:56  
Tom we call it a crust-buster. We have heavy clay soil that can rival asphalt under certian conditions. it works well to help bring sprouting seeds through the crust.



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Mark H

03-02-2000 21:46:29




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 Re: Rotary Hoe? Anyone ever heard of this? in reply to Tommy D., 03-01-2000 07:07:56  
Tom we call it a crust-buster. We have heavy clay soil that can rival asphalt under certian conditions. it works well to help bring sprouting seeds through the crust.



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Chad Wink

03-01-2000 21:47:41




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 Re: Rotary Hoe? Anyone ever heard of this? in reply to Tommy D., 03-01-2000 07:07:56  
I know this will sound a bit odd, but if you only want to break the crust, and not kill small weeds, find an old pull type-not 3 point mounted style, and pull it backwards, it takes out next to none of the crop, and does just as good a job breaking the crust. People used to look at me like I was crazy when I did this, but it workes! And the pull type hoes are worth next to nothing.

By tthe way the reason you want the pull type is if you have hills, it will follow the contour better and take out even less crop, as well as its much easier to hook it up backwards.

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Haybaler

03-01-2000 10:07:12




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 Re: Rotary Hoe? Anyone ever heard of this? in reply to Tommy D., 03-01-2000 07:07:56  
Just got done building one in the shop. If you crop crusts it will allow for emergence by breaking it. Run mine behind a JD730 in 5th. Figure on losing @ 10-15% of stand if set properly. Will do more damage than good if you don't have a crust. Can also be used to incorporate Treflan on fresh beds. If anybody is interested I've got a source for a unit that only works over the row and is the slickest unit I have ever run.

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Ninh Hoa

03-01-2000 08:25:23




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 Re: Rotary Hoe? Anyone ever heard of this? in reply to Tommy D., 03-01-2000 07:07:56  
I remeber my Dad using one on 'spike' corn back in the late 50's and early 60's. It would take out early weed growth and not do much damage to the newly sprouted corn. It was a quick, easy way to get an early weed kill when the corn was too small to cultivate the normal way.

Sure puzzled me, though. He'd fly through the field with dirt just flying. I'd expect to see nothing left, but when the dust settled, there was the corn, just a clean as if it had been hand-hoed. And as I recall, I never did find any corn sprouts broken. I'm sure that there were some, but not so it would make any difference.

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robbie

03-03-2000 15:06:58




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 Re: Re: Rotary Hoe? Anyone ever heard of this? in reply to Ninh Hoa, 03-01-2000 08:25:23  
Busted out a window on a 4840 because I was running to fast and picked up a rock and BANG. Glass went everywhere. I guess road gear was a little too fast.



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Dick Davis

03-03-2000 03:25:37




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 Re: Re: Rotary Hoe? Anyone ever heard of this? in reply to Ninh Hoa, 03-01-2000 08:25:23  
Rotary Hoeing corn and soybeans was one of the fun things to do as a kid on the farm because IT WAS FAST! Seems everything else dad wanted done took forever. I believe rotary hoes where the justification for dealer installed M&W over drives (9 speeds), because the faster you went the better the weeding job it did. I still like crusing around in O/D. It sure is nice when pulling a hill in 5th and run out of poop to be able to shift down to 4th O/D instead of regular 4th. Long live M & W!

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The Red

03-01-2000 09:35:10




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 Re: Re: Rotary Hoe? Anyone ever heard of this? in reply to Ninh Hoa, 03-01-2000 08:25:23  
Jeff and grandpa Ernie last used a rotary hoe in row soybeans back in 1991 or 1992. That was fun and it did a pretty decent job. When Ernie wasn't looking, Jeff and I would stick the quad in D and run the 4240 in 4th. :)



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john d

03-02-2000 14:09:54




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 Re: Re: Re: Rotary Hoe? Anyone ever heard of this? in reply to The Red, 03-01-2000 09:35:10  
Our fields were pretty flat, and back when I was younger (and perhaps even stupider..) I've run lots of acres with a 2-row hoe behind the SM in 5th gear at 2/3 throttle! Had to slow down a LOT on the ends to keep the hoe from sliding sideways and taking out most of the corn....



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Bill

03-01-2000 07:38:49




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 Re: Rotary Hoe? Anyone ever heard of this? in reply to Tommy D., 03-01-2000 07:07:56  
Every farmer in the mid-west had one. They were used to break the ground up so beans and corn could make it up thru the crust. One of the funest things to use. Put the tractor in road gear and don't look back.



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ADfm(AR) Lots of times

03-01-2000 07:34:14




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 Re: Rotary Hoe? Anyone ever heard of this? in reply to Tommy D., 03-01-2000 07:07:56  
I can remember them starting about 1960 they were a big thing in the cotton country of northeast Arkansas. When you run at the right speed in plowed ground or disk ground it literally has the dirt flying about 12 inches over the top of the tines. It really breaks up clods and it was also used to thin cotton when the lint covered seed was planted.(Lint covered seed was almost poured in the row,it looked like the seed were touching each other) When it got up about 1 1/2 to 2 inches high the Rotar Hoe was ran through the field to tear out some of the excess plants. This was not a very precise way to thin the cotton as it some times tore out more than was desired. They did a good job of preparing the soil for planting. Use it like a harrow and you will have a good time with it also works good to run over pasture ground to tear up heavy thatch. AD

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