Posted by Gene Davis (Ga.) on May 30, 2021 at 06:25:21 from (5.181.234.118):
In Reply to: Cultivator sweeps posted by grandpa Love on May 30, 2021 at 06:01:49:
Back in the dark ages when farmers around here cultivated their row crops,especially corn they used sweeps like you have on the rear rigs of this outfit. The sweeps on the front cultivator frames were usually set to run flat thus plowing as wide as they could and eliminating as many weeds as possible. The rear rig sweeps would be set slightly nose down to plow out the tire tracks and leave just a little furrow for the driver to follow next time they plowed through it. Some used what were called fenders to keep the dirt from covering the small plants for the first couple of times they plowed. When they top dressed with nitrogen they would often use disk hillers to throw the dirt over the nitrogen and also the roots as this was usually when they laid it by for the season.
Round up and other weed control chemicals have made this mostly a thing of the past now.
Those narrow chisel looking plows were usually used fore ripping on the field cultivators where they were ran deep to break up the hard pan. Your garden looks like it needs pulverizing with a rotary tiller to break up the clods and clumps. It must have been plowed too wet at some point.
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