field cutivator

caterpillar guy · Jul 18, 2022

I'm looking at a different field cultivator. Some of the sunflowers have an S or Swedish tine type of shank versus the regular spring C shank. How well will the S or Swedish type work for digging up last falls bean stubble? Or do I want to stay with the old spring C shank type. Just the S type seem to be a good bit cheaper. I could run the disk over it if I had to to loosen it up first though that kind of defeats the purpose. I also want to pull a packer behind it. How well will they work in loose dirt like after a chisel plow or after the disk? Need to get fields smoothed out better.

jon f mn · Jul 18, 2022

S shanks are for weeding and won't dig much in hard ground. You need a heavy cultivator for what you want to do.

NY 986 · Jul 18, 2022

In tough ground the C shank will work better than the S shank. S shank equipped field cultivators bring considerably less than C shank equipped units at auction around here. In more loamy ground there will be less of a difference.

NY 986 · Jul 18, 2022

Some companies such as Krause a much heavier S shank is used on a field cultivator versus a row crop cultivator. Still as I mentioned above the preference is clearly there for the C shank especially in tough ground.

caterpillar guy · Jul 18, 2022

This is for tillage not row cultivating. Maybe I should have stipulated that in the beginning.

paul · Jul 18, 2022

The C shank will do tougher tillage.

The S shank is good at what it does, which is lighter tillage.

I think you would prefer the C shank as more of a one pass and done rig for spring.

Paul

Bob Bancroft · Jul 18, 2022

We tried a Brillion rear mounted cultivator with S tines once. It was about worthless. It wouldn't hardly loosen up our row crop planted ground! The only place S tines work around here is as secondary tillage on freshly plowed ground.

flying belgian · Jul 18, 2022

I think you would be very disappointed with the job an s tine does. There is a reason they sell for less money.

4520BW · Jul 18, 2022

Krause has a heavy tine they call a K tine. We have to Krause finishers and they will go thru bean stubble no problem.

caterpillar guy · Jul 18, 2022

I have an old IHC vibra shank and we have a Glencoe soil finisher. I like both for different reasons. both have a C shank set up on them. I can't dig stubble with the Glencoe it will bend the shanks near the bottom and cause the shovels to leave a trench. The Vibra shank I like for digging stubble loose in the spring and works good for that. I have not had any experience with the S tine deals reason for asking. 2 passes with the Vibra shank and I have loose ground for planting just is not big enough anymore so need more like 30-38 ft. The Glencoe will make a decent seed bed with a couple passes but leaves a ridge down the middle if you go very fast or deep. That creates a problem with the combine on that ridge cutting beans. Thanks guys I've been looking for what I can afford with 7 inch sweeps and 6.5 or so spacing. I think the big problem with the Glencoe is the 9 inch sweeps pull to hard for the shanks to hold.

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