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RandyNcal

12-08-2003 14:38:31




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OK it's me again, I have checked all the archives and can't find anything on what yall use to make furrows. On the job I have used a rolling cultivator in the past to make furrows and cultivate at the same time. Now that I will be on my own with just an 8n and H I need something on the small size. Has anyone tried adapting rolling cultivators for one row or two, or what do you guys do I want to raise sweetcorn.

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Alvin n Ms.

12-12-2003 17:44:13




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 Re: furrow makers in reply to RandyNcal, 12-08-2003 14:38:31  
I would get a pair of Covington planters, and a Pittsburg Steel stiff shank cultivator. You can plant or plow two rows at a time, easier than one. We farmed over 200 acres with a pair of 8Ns back in the early 50s. alvinnms



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Barry

12-10-2003 05:52:22




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 Re: furrow makers in reply to RandyNcal, 12-08-2003 14:38:31  
What you need is a tool bar with "ditchers" if you want furrows for irrigating. Sweeps are for cultivation. Ditchers are available out here in the west at most farm stores. The (Lilliston) rolling cultivator was intended to be used for cultivation only, not ditching. Also out here, they only work well on very sandy soil, not at all well on fine textured soil. Either of your tractors would handle 2 rows easily.

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CNKS

12-10-2003 08:27:20




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 Re: Re: furrow makers in reply to Barry, 12-10-2003 05:52:22  
Terminology changes depending on where you are. I use sweeps as a generic term to include what you call ditchers and the winged sweeps that are used for only for cultivation. Around here a ditcher is an implement that makes the ditch that carries the water to the rows -- a single king size middle buster, if you will. Yes, I have used all three of these. A lilliston or rolling cultivater can also use cultivating sweeps to aid in cultivation, or what you call ditchers to make an irrigation furrow while cultivating. Around here they work very well on silt loam soils.

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CNKS

12-08-2003 17:39:30




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 Re: furrow makers in reply to RandyNcal, 12-08-2003 14:38:31  
What I call a rolling cultivator has the brand name Lilliston, more of a bed shaper than a furrower -- yours could be different. An H or an 8N will pull a two row middlebuster, which will make rather deep furrows. If you want something shallower, you can use a tool bar and a couple of smaller sweeps, or whatever you can pull. Just set the spacing to fit your cultivator. Any farm store will have the sweeps. You don't need furrows unless you are going to irrigate, since you have been making furrows, I assume you are--unless you are using them for erosion control.

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