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kcm.MN · Mar 20, 2020

SVcummins · Mar 20, 2020

That?s a beautiful picture . I?ve never cultivated a lot of corn
but I loved doing what I did do

Fawteen · Mar 20, 2020

Not me, buddy! First time over with a John Deere B and a front mount 4 row with the shields on it. Running at half-throttle in low gear so you didn't cover the corn. HATED that job, had all I could do not to fall asleep and run into the fence at the end of the row.

Given the choice, I'd rather pitch manure with a 4 tine fork.

jon f mn · Mar 20, 2020

Same here except it was a 730 case with a rear mount. Missed the front mount on the 830 by one year. Hate that job.

Ken Loewenhagen · Mar 20, 2020

I used to do it with an 8N ford and a 2 row rear cult. Haven't done that in almost 60 years, still hate it.

rustyfarmall · Mar 20, 2020

My first experience cultivating corn was with a John Deere 4010 and a 4 row, front mount cultivator. I thoroughly enjoyed that job. A few years later I had the opportunity to run a Ford 961? with a 4 row, front mount cultivator. THAT was absolutely the most frustrating experience ever. That Ford tractor was not heavy enough to handle a 4 row, front mount cultivator.

Part Time Pete · Mar 20, 2020

Great picture. I never had to cultivate, but spent many a sunny day side dressing corn with liquid fertilized on an Oliver 77. What could be better?
Pete

Traditional Farmer · Mar 20, 2020

Spent a lot of time in my very early youth cultivating corn with an Allis Chalmers B with a one row cultivator,great fun when you're 9 or 10 years old.Also used it on watermelons and cantaloups until they started to run, we planted them in checkerboard fashion so we could cross cultivated used a disk in the wide parts since we planted them 20 ft apart both ways.

SVcummins · Mar 20, 2020

I loved it but I only had a couple acres of sweet corn

blueridge · Mar 20, 2020

Cultivated

Did that in River Bottoms on a Farmall MD with a 4 row cultivating Corn as a Teenager hard to stay awake,
one half mile rows, other helper was on a Minny UB Diesel same setup, working for my dad's cousin he ran a John Deere G. Back then I loved it. Gene

old popper · Mar 20, 2020

My corn cultivating was on a '43 B John Deere with a 2 row. Tedious to say the least, but gave a lot of time for daydreaming.

2late4me · Mar 20, 2020

I would have recieved a very strong talking to ("get off your lazy ### and adjust that dam thing") if I had left that much undisturbed soil next to the row. Super M Farmall with front
mount no power steering.

formerly ny bill · Mar 20, 2020

I bought a front mount 6 row JD cultivtor that was from a JD 520. the seller allowed as to how he had to keep the front tires aired up pretty well.
I mounted one side unit to a tool bar to make a 3 1/2 row 3pt cultivator. it worked remarkably well. except when I dozed off a few times.

IaLeo · Mar 20, 2020

I got a bad sunburn on my back operating a 1940 Case SC w/2 row..too dumb to put my shirt back on.

I appreciated the variable ratio steering on that old Case (you know the one with arms and rods most people sneer at), It could quickly dodge right or left, especially good and cultivating cross checked corn.

I hated the old 1937 JD A with hand lift 2 row cultivator after many hours of the mechanical lift on the Case. My sister got the easy one!

Leo

cool hand · Mar 20, 2020

Seventy years ago I cultivated corn with a two-row F-20. First time around very slow but with clod fenders. All manual operation. Thought it was great to lift the gangs (left, right, rear) at the end of the rows without stopping!

miangus · Mar 20, 2020

Started with a1950 JD B.with a front mount two row. Had rolomatic front My grandfather was personal friends with each corn stalk. If we tipped one out had to stop and set back up. Later we had a rear mount 4 row on a JD 3020. Neither my dad my uncle nor my grandfather could run that thing. My cousin and I had to cultivate and the corn. They could resist looking back. That B sure was a great machine to cultivate or mow hay with the #5. That rolomatic sure was great. Did some cultivating with a 46 A, a lot harder job. Got the B back just a couple years ago. Wish I had that 46 A.

SVcummins · Mar 20, 2020

I bet those hand lift levers would make for some stiff
shoulders and arms

Janicholson · Mar 20, 2020

Doesn't look like corn, population to high and row width near a meter. The tillage pattern seems redundant and looks driven
on.
My experience was on a Super H with the mounted 2 row. Every headland was a timing challenge of pivoting on one rear wheel,
wheel brake, lift rod, and spinning the steering wheel to the stop, then back to straight down the rows. Not too hard in
first with the shields down, but nasty in 3rd with 16" corn. Herbicide? what is that? Take Herb aside and tell him how to
cultivate correctly. Jim

jal-SD · Mar 20, 2020

We "listed" our corn, so first time over was with what was called an eli. (Some people called them a go-dig"). Special designed cultivator for listed corn. Biggest problem was staying on the ridges irst time over. Second time we used a drag, to flatten our the Lister ridges. Third time was fun, put the H in 4th, set the 2 row cultivator as deep as it would go to fill in the rest of the "trench" where the corn was growing. Go as fast as possible to cover the weeds in the "trench" & corn leaves poking out would grow fast enough to prevent any more weed growth.

fixerupper · Mar 20, 2020

My first cultivating experience was with a four row mounted on a Deere A. Ten years later I graduated to a rear mount four row on a 630 so we finally had power steering. I will never know why dad did not put the front mount on the 630. The 630 with power steering sat in the shed doing nothing during the cultivating season while we still used the A with armstrong steering to cultivate with. That ABG front mount cultivator would probably fit right on the 630 without modification. in the mid-70's we traded the four row rear mount for a six row 30" to pull with the 630. Then we got another 6 row to put behind the 1086. I liked the 1086 for the air conditioning but I felt like I was sealed into another world in that cab and too distanced from what was going on with the cultivator behind me. Most times if we didn't have enough manpower to run two cultivators the 1086 sat in the shed while I used the 630 to cultivate just because i felt more in tune to what was going on with the small tractor and no cab. The downside to cultivating with the 630 was it was HOT in capital letters. I put many hundreds of hours on that 630 cultivating, it did earn it's keep well. I am glad the cultivating days are over though and I never care to do that boring job again. Period!

caterpillar guy · Mar 20, 2020

On this place and dads if you used a 3pt cultivator you might as well just replant it or put in wheat. The side pull on the hills would dig it alll up. Only could use the front mount 4 row on the H. I spent more time with it than I would like to admit and less time than was done in the far past with it.
Though would like to have another H to put it on for the garden. Would work good and not have to take it off.

Tractorcedric · Mar 20, 2020

This is how I still do it!

ss55 · Mar 21, 2020

A three row cultivator! That is the first three row cultivator I've seen. The rest were an even number of rows: 2, 4, 6 or 8 rows. By the shift in the rows near the top of the hill, the planter was at least 6 rows wide.

Ozlander · Mar 21, 2020

You used a three row cultivator if you had used a three row lister.

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