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Turning yoke on farmall M cultivators

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Ray M41

01-20-2001 18:15:29




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Anybody have a pic or can post a link to a pic where I can view how the turning yoke works on the cultivators? I am told this yoke is for turning cultivators. I've been around Farmall cultivators but never seen the yoke in action. I can't imagine how or why cultivators would need to be turned with the steering. The steering is tough enough at stand still without the additional load from turning the cultivator.

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W.W.

01-26-2001 11:34:52




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 Re: turning yoke on farmall M cultivators in reply to Ray M41, 01-20-2001 18:15:29  

I have that setup on my B. it works very well, if you start to get off the row, when you turn the steering wheel it moves the cultvator so you don't have to wait for the tractor to move over,especially if the wheels are in a rut or on a ridge.



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2fordsmike

01-22-2001 14:37:55




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 Re: turning yoke on farmall M cultivators in reply to Ray M41, 01-20-2001 18:15:29  
Ray: I've seen these yolks on Ms, Hs and f-20s. I believe they were considered useful for cultivating rows that were on a curve or running parallel to winding terraces. Also probably a concession to horse cultivators being viewed as easier to keep tight to the row. Never heard of the idea of trying to steer between checked corn.
By the way there was wire checked that created rows each way and power checked that created hills every 14-18 inches or so. Usually 3-kernels to a hill. A friend of mine when asked "how you doing" would often respond "Oh about 2 in a hill" meaning he felt below average! I miss the old-time hired men we used to know and thier wonderful colorful and rough language "Hell for stout." By the way I was born in 1940 and by the 50s most of the Ms used cultivators that didn't use that yolk. Mike

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john d

01-21-2001 12:00:27




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 Re: turning yoke on farmall M cultivators in reply to Ray M41, 01-20-2001 18:15:29  
I don't have a picture. The yoke, or arm, stuck out in front of the tractor and locked into a linkage that would swing the front gangs from side to side a few inches. Actually, because of the length of the cultivator assmebly (as compared to that yoke) the shovels moved to the side a little more distance than the travel of the end of the yoke, as I remember. I've never seen this system on a 4-row rig, only 2-row cultivators. We had some when I was kid, and so did my Uncle. He and Dad had been planting corn in rows before I came along, and had disconnected the linkage on the cultivators and bolted it fast to the cultivator frame. I remember asking about it when I was probably not more than 7 or 8 years old, and Dad took the time to take part of it loose and show me how it worked.

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Charlie

01-20-2001 19:14:00




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 Re: turning yoke on farmall M cultivators in reply to Ray M41, 01-20-2001 18:15:29  
I have a set of cultivators for my F-14 that are designed to turn with the steering. The same cultivators I think will fit on a H or M.



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Jiff

01-20-2001 18:47:17




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 Re: turning yoke on farmall M cultivators in reply to Ray M41, 01-20-2001 18:15:29  
On corn planted in check rows, steering the cultivator let you get weeds between the standing corn plants. Horse drawn cultivators often had a foot operated pedal to shift the gangs. In check row planted corn, each hill was about 40 inches apart,and you could cultivate in any direction, vs. the 6-9 inch spacing between seeds on drilled corn.



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Ray M41

01-22-2001 10:52:23




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 Re: Re: turning yoke on farmall M cultivators in reply to Jiff, 01-20-2001 18:47:17  
Yea it's easy to visualize. Even while I'm cultivating on straight rows and see one lone pigweed or sunflower I'd like to move one shovel to whack that weed. But when traveling at even one mile per hour it seem that would be a tough moving target to hit expecially at turning the loaded front wheels with a steering wheel. I still remain confused. Sorry I'm dense.



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Ray M41

01-20-2001 19:08:28




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 Re: Re: turning yoke on farmall M cultivators in reply to Jiff, 01-20-2001 18:47:17  
I've heard of check row planted corn. How many ears can you get on one stalk? Seems like you are missing out on lots of corn with stalks at 40" apart. We plant it in rows at about 6 to 12" apart and cultivate straight. After the second run the stalks are too high but the leaves shade the ground and the weeds don't grow any more.



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Dick Davis

01-22-2001 03:49:39




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 Re: Re: Re: turning yoke on farmall M cultivators in reply to Ray M41, 01-20-2001 19:08:28  
Check planted corn was to allow machine cultivation both North/South and East/West. No herbicides in those days and 4 (two in each direction) cultivations was considered "good farming". The 40" rows allowed draft horses between corn stalks without knocking down the corn. Land fertility (before modern fertilizers) wouldn't support todays seed per acre plantings. Yields were a fraction of today's but input costs were as well. Dick Davis

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Jiff

01-20-2001 21:17:13




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 Re: Re: Re: turning yoke on farmall M cultivators in reply to Ray M41, 01-20-2001 19:08:28  
Each drop had 2 or 3 kernels planted.



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