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Charlie M

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Farmer across the road is growing organic corn so he is doing a lot of cultivating. He's a big farmer so everything is modern equipment and he uses GPS all the time for planting, etc. I was wondering if GPS is
used for cultivating. It would have to be pretty accurate to not dig up any corn. I know how it is when I cultivate with my H - a few plants get sacrificed for the joy of cultivating.My "GPS" is good to
plus/minus at lest 6 inches. LOL
 
If he's using guidance for planting, he's probably using it for cultivating too. The information would all be there, and the tractor would follow the same lines. Undoubtedly doing a better job than I used to. I hated cultivating.
 
Would the system know when to raise and lower the cultivators and make the turn or does the operator have to be awake for that. My stuff is all 40's, 50's technology and its mind boggling to me what this new technology does.
 
Cultivating corn was a never ending job and BORING. Idling along in low on a hot afternoon will put anyone to sleep. After one mishap on my part I remember Dad saying "I knew you'd plow some out until you learned, but why did you do it right by the road?"
 
He would almost have to be using RTK guidance where there is a permanent stationary base station somewhere that triangulates along with the satellites. RTK can give sub-inch accuracy.
 
Right at the tail end of the days of cultivating being common. Maybe about 10 years before roundup took over. There were a couple companies that made attachments that went between the tractor and cultivator like a quickhitch and had feelers etc to angle the implement and keep it on the row. If I remember right they were about $3500 or better. When cultivating was pretty much done value on these went in the tank just like most cultivators.

jt
 
When I was young. Like single digit young. Dad put me on the cultivator. He said cultivate the corn. So I did. Not much corn left when dad came to see how I was doing. Then he put my brother on the cultivator. He did a perfect job. That was the last time dad told me to cultivate He put me on the swather where I live most of the summers.
 
Boy it was hard to stay alert with hours of corn flapping through those sweeps! Boring dodging corn plants offset a bit plant to plant when cross cultivating! Those were the wonderful '50's some folks remember. Yep, glad I was there.........Leo
 
We use gps and pulling an 11 shank ripper to mark potatoes rows you can start anywhere you want in a 300 acre field make a pass then go on either side or the middle of the field and the rows will match perfectly we run around 9 mph
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If you can make a pass with a GPS guided zone tiller and then a second pass with a planter, and hit the exact same spot both times, keeping cultivators between the rows should be a cake walk.

We cultivated for a few years. The corn would grow inches overnight after making the pass through with the cultivator. You could not get through it with the tractor and cultivator a second time if you wanted to.
 
I always liked to cultivate but never did more than 50 acres per year as we notilled some as well. I have a 4 row front mount for my 3020 and really like that on the contours. The reason I do cultivate much is the amount of soil erosion we get from summer down pours and I bale all my corn stalks and dislike bumping over the ridges. Here is a pic from a few years ago with my 4020 gas on the cultivator. Tom
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Front mount were not bad at all to use and withNO power steering. Rear mount a different story, Tearibler to use.
 
I saw a cultivator like that but a 6 row narrow on a 3010 several years ago. I was hoping to buy it and the owner was willing to separate it from the tractor but it was gone before I had the money. It had black JD cylinders that would have come on a late 20 series or 30 series tractor as well.
 
I've cultivated thousands of acres of corn with a 3 pt cultivator without issue. Just identify where the front wheels need to line up relative to the corn row and go. I've cultivated corn nearly as high as the top of the hood on a 4010 as well. Just go do it and not look at it for a few days afterward. It always straightens back up. We side dress with the 6 row 183 IH with S tines.
 
It is an AT40. When I moved to this area 15 years ago they were around everywhere but with less farmers and the high priced scrap of a few years ago them are becoming more rare. The first set I had cost $150 and I think I paid $200 or $250 for these. They have always been shedded and are at the other farm all oiled up. Tom
 
It’s different if you have flat ground or rolling hills.

Takes a lot out of a person trying to cultivate on the hillsides.

Flat ground and square fields, not much issue.

Paul
 
I spent a lot of days cultivating corn with an AC B,I loved the job really.We used disc hillers the first time turned to throw the dirt away from the corn when it was small then turned them around to throw the dirt into the row to cover the weeds on the 2nd cultivation worked good.I do the same thing with my Hines H-1600
in the garden these days.
 
That is the way to do it if you do not care what kind of job is being done as by then it is too late to make any needed adjustments. And also you do not see if you are just skimming the ground a quarter inch deep even if you are trying to cultivate 2" deep.
 
Leroy, I have done an excellent job and have been hired by others to do their cultivating. Have you seen a rear mount cultivator at work? They have a gauge wheel to establish depth and can be outfitted with side shields if so desired. If you prefer front mount then so be it but there is absolutely nothing wrong with rear mount. Further, with a 3 pt mount you can detach in minutes freeing up the tractor for other tasks.
 
Have had 2 4 row and 2 2row rear mount and I do know what I am talking about. I started cultivating with the 2row rear mount first year while Dad used the 2 row front mount on a 38 A John Deere. Told Dad second year I was taking over the Deere when I was 15 years old. And the rear mount all had the guides and fenders. You can have those disdusting rear mount, give me a front mount any time. Spend too much time with the rear mounts. Parked them and went back to the front mount that was parked for a year.
 
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