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Yea, my TW-20 is dualed & has only a very small cast weight on each rear, no fliud. In my heavy clay & muck soils, I can spin it out with the 22' field cultivator. In my part of Minnesota, we deal with very heavy, very wet, very cold spring soils. You leave a track walking across it on foot..... One must get in & stir up the ground so it dries out & warms up enough to plant, or I would need to wait until June to put a seed in the ground. One leaves a wheel track with a light tractor in those conditions. For oats & such, I use the very light gas tractors & light implements (a spike tooth harrow) to try to dry things out early - can use the big tractor to pull it out when I get stuck. Not if. :) Like I say, different conditions for different folks, that is what I like about places like this - can see how different things must be done in different areas. The flip side is, one can get real 'crazy' answers if one doesn't explain the special conditions one is operating in. On a real farming site I frequent, a plow & almost any tillage is considered a sin against humanity - waste of fuel, recreational tillage, yadda yadda - those are all Ill & Ohio & Nebraska folks talking, where no-till _is_ the best way. They don't know anything else, if they tried that here in my soil & my climate, we would be attending their sheriff's auction in 2-3 years. :) Never heard of doing such light tillage with a field cultivator, would be no point to it in my condions - would only leave muddy ruts. Nice to hear how it is done & why in other places. :) --->Paul
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