How to adjust cultivator

Geo-TH,In · May 7, 2021

The last time I cultivated was 1966.
This is how I remember a cultivator worked.
I would go flying and if I blinked I wiped out about 25 ft of 4 rows.
Speed and how much dirt went into the row were variables along with how the you adjusted shields and shovels.
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big tee · May 7, 2021

The best way to adjust a row-crop cultivator is with a cutting torch!---Tee

Geo-TH,In · May 7, 2021

Are there any farmer that still uses a cultivator?

Timmycornpicker · May 7, 2021

Besides Amish? Yes. I have one that once every few years comes out to take out some escapes. There's a vegetable grower near me who grows some stuff in plastic covered raised beds but cultivates some stuff like sweet corn and beans in rows.

Traditional Farmer · May 7, 2021

I cultivate my garden,sweet corn,etc,have yet to find a weed or any plant that was steel resistant.I use disk hillers a lot, can get very precise with them.
Plus if I sell produce I get a premium.

Johnny Farmer · May 7, 2021

I always called a cultivator a rubber tired cutworm.

SVcummins · May 7, 2021

Morning glory and Canadian thistle love it when you cultivate it its just giving it 60 units of nitrogen to the original plant and then spreads it all across the field

larry@stinescorner · May 7, 2021

Many people tell me,,they cant have a garden,,too many weeds in their soil,,,

It can be done,,,hoe or cultivate before it needs it,,and keep it up,,dont say Ill get it next week

Weeds wait for no one,,,lol/vphoto87643.jpg>

Some pictures from different plots I have done over the years,,,no spray,,just kept at it with tilling and hoe

larry@stinescorner · May 7, 2021

I guess you could say I was sort of a Traditional Farmer?/lol

MARK ROBKE · May 7, 2021

Tobacco growers cultivate(or plow, as it is better known). Mark.

Jim in NC · May 7, 2021

Yes cultivators, hoes, and sweating work for us.

Traditional Farmer · May 7, 2021

Thistle are a result of too much P compared to K,the more out of balance your soil the worse your weed problem.Never seen a thistle in a corn field or garden in my life.

Traditional Farmer · May 7, 2021

I've been planting basically in a trench and fill the soil in around the plants as they grow and cover up the weeds between the plants.Leaves very little hand work,also letting the ground warm up before planting so the vegetables take off growing fast makes it easier to control weeds.We raised a good amount of corn when I was growing up and always cultivated.

SVcummins · May 7, 2021

If like to farm where there are no weeds and Just a wave a magic wand makes them disappear

Hobo,NC · May 7, 2021

I cultivate till it gets to big to cultivate. I mulch all but the corn and peas.
Farmall 100 & a 140 that's all they do is lay off rows and cultivate...
The 140 had a set of rolling cultivators on it I will try to post a pix when I use it next it does a bang up job...

I never take the hillers off the 100 I row with it sometimes cultivate with it and use them to throw the dirt to the corn.

BTW whuts a rock : )

flying belgian · May 7, 2021

I grew up on the cultivator. JD. 60 four row front mount. There's a knack to it for sure. Set the shovels close, replace shovels if worn, Set each gang perfect depth, set each shovel on gang perfect depth, adjust shields just right according to crop height, change as needed, drive right speed to cover weeds but not crop, stay awake, readjust all those things when you go to next field. But we really had clean fields. Then when we wore that cultivator out Pa bought a rear mount 4 row and put it behind the 700 Case. I hated cultivating with the front mount but I really hated cultivating with the rear mount. Cultivate the corn 4 times if possible and the beans 3 times. Pa would start cultivating around 7 am. then I would take over around 10. Stop for dinner then I would go out until about 4. Then Pa would take over and stop for supper then go back out until dark. We had about 250 acres of row crops so we really had to keep that cultivator going. I still cultivate a little of my own and then the 80 acres of organics I custom farm for the neighbor but I have a 12 row so when I make a couple rounds, I'm way over here already. Lots different from growing up with the 4 row.

Geo-TH,In · May 8, 2021

I have a troy bilt pony with a gismo that makes trenches.

J.Wondergem · May 8, 2021

When I had to cultivate We flu alright, low gear at a idle with a 36 JD B, hand lift cultivator. When I got to the end, I had to get off the seat and use both hands on the lift to get it up, or down while it was moving, then jump back in the seat before it got off the row. Tried to get through the corn and beans three times each before they were too big. Last time through, Dad would turn the disks around so it would hill and cover the weeds in the rows.

IaLeo · May 8, 2021

How about a tangle of morning glory across the shovels on the side you are not watching! LOL
Or a badly sunburned back because you did not have your shirt on!
Or getting on the wrong pair of rows!
Or trying to stay awake with waist high corn flap-flapping under the cultivator mount bar? (final cultivating fast as possible to throw dirt around the plants)
Or all day quick dodging the misaligned plants due to a stretched corn planter wire (cross cultivating).
Or the warm exhaust wafting in your face when the wind was right!
Or when your school/townies were learning swimming lessons in tow that day!

Traditional Farmer · May 8, 2021

I lay the rows off with a 3pt layoff plow pulled by my sub compact.Can either do one or two 36 rows at a time.

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