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Home-built cultivator ?s

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Frank (N.Mi.)

02-05-2005 07:22:48




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Ok so the wife and I who were both farm kids want to grow a few acres of corn and sorghum. We have tractor, and a one row planter. We also have lots of scrap steel and some cultivator teeth leftover from some old horse-drawn implements. I've got a few Sunday afternoons to spare so I thought I'd weld together a cultivator. Why? because I can, and I can't seem to find one around here right now to buy. It basically will be a square toolbar type. Our tractor (wfe) is set up with the wheels on 60" centers (rear wheels are 15" wide) so I plan to make the teeth or whatever you call them adjustable but set up for 30" rows. My main question is how should I set up the guides? Should they be a wheel type like a plow uses or would a plate be adequate? I cannot seem to find a GOOD picture of the guides to work off of.I have never been around a cultivator in use so any advise or observations are welcome....TIA Frank

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Springer Me

02-13-2005 04:56:35




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 John Deere 290 corn planter in reply to Frank (N.Mi.), 02-05-2005 07:22:48  
I was wondering if anyone could tell me what a John Deere 290 corn planter thats in pretty good shape is worth.



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JMS/MN

02-05-2005 16:57:53




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 Re: Home-built cultivator ?s in reply to Frank (N.Mi.), 02-05-2005 07:22:48  
You talk about 'guides'- do mean a shield that protects the plants while cultivating? Like a plow uses? that is a rolling coulter which cuts the ground and trash ahead of the moldboard- totally separate thing. First of all - what tractor do you have- make and model? Three point hitch? If you have a small, narrow tractor that is made for one row cultivating- then you can make a cultivator for it. Same with a two row unit, but you need to describe what you have to start with.

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Leroy

02-06-2005 16:08:53




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 Re: Home-built cultivator ?s in reply to JMS/MN, 02-05-2005 16:57:53  
He said a larger type, not a one row type



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Leroy

02-05-2005 15:50:13




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 Re: Home-built cultivator ?s in reply to Frank (N.Mi.), 02-05-2005 07:22:48  
1 row planter with 2 row cultivator, NO, you can't plant even or straight enough that you will not be plowing out one of the rows



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Allan in NE

02-05-2005 13:03:42




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 Re: Home-built cultivator ?s in reply to Frank (N.Mi.), 02-05-2005 07:22:48  
Hi Frank,

You call 'em guides, I call them stabilizers and I've seen 'em built both ways.

For my money, the best are the vertical "blade" type guides. Almost all manufacturers use this kind nowadays.

Years ago, John Deere used a "knife" type on some of it's cultivators and they did work pretty darned well.

Doesn't really matter, I guess, as long as it keeps the cultivator from "wandering" around back there. Here's a picture of a 'blade' type stabilizer.

Allan

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paul

02-05-2005 12:23:21




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 Re: Home-built cultivator ?s in reply to Frank (N.Mi.), 02-05-2005 07:22:48  
I'm guessing a row-crop cultivator from your description, not a field cultivator?

What is a 'guide'? For depth, for protecting the crop, for steering, ???

If row-crop cultivator, would be better if you had a 2 row planter & cultivator, going to be making a lot of compaction cultivating one row at a time. Just does not work well, replants the weeds & hardens the ground.

--->Paul



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riverbend

02-05-2005 12:08:31




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 Re: Home-built cultivator ?s in reply to Frank (N.Mi.), 02-05-2005 07:22:48  
What are the guides for your cultivator ? Something to shield the plants or a steering mechanism for the shovels ?



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