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Erik Ks farmer

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Looking at a Wilrich 24ft and a CIH 4500 22ft that are in similar condition, good shovels and harrows. The Wilrich is priced considerably lower. I don't have any experience with either model, I want an implement that I can do one pass tillage on bean stubble to work in fertilizer and work disced corn stalks. Opinions please, thanks-Erik
 
I went from a 4500 to a Wilrich, big step forward, the WR will work conventional tilled bean ground one pass if combine has a chopper, I did have problems after no till beans one year. The newer CIH diggers like the 4300 ect. are good but the 4500 isn't much.
 
I know it might be outa your price range but have you considered a turbo-till? We use ours to chop down stalks and work in fertilizer on our no till ground works great you can cover alot of ground too. I have an unverferth field cultivator that we really only use to work down our fall till ground in the spring. We havent been very impressed with anything else weve tried it for.
 
The IH 4500 replaced the venerable model 45 which in it's day was a great cultivator, but had eventually been bypassed by better designs. The 4500 was the initial response to the increased competition and wasn't that much better than the 45. Unless the Wilrich happens to be a really ancient model it is the better buy. If it is the newer quad model, run don't walk to buy it rather than the 4500. I've got an older Wilrich (not ancient) which I bought to replace a model 45. If you don't have a chopper on the combine, you might have some difficulty following the combine with the Wilrich, if planting winter wheat. I wouldn't even attempt this with a 45 or 4500. If you wait until spring after the stuff has broken down a little, the Wilrich works fine. In contrast, I could never get the 45 thru without first making a pass with a disk or something to cut the residue, and suspect the 4500 wouldn't be much better. If your alternatives included the newer 4600, 4800, or the model 4300 which was the last version before before going with the DMI design, the choice could be more difficult.
 
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