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Hank ABAB

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Found one of these, so I bought it.

I have never seen another one in my part of the country.
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My dad had a Dearborn version was 8 feet wide. He told me it was Fords version of a rotary hoe. It never worked for us in that intent we used it to finish harrow any broadcast small grain or grass seeding.
 
My dad must have had one of those or parts of one as I remember the teeth sitting in the iron pile.
 
The Dearborn version was made at 13' wide so he probably took the wings off. When they made it they forgot the width of 4 rows and it was 2' to narrow to do 4, so it did not sell very well. The Ferguson was wide enough to cover the 4 rows.
 
Lots of companys made them. I have what I think was a horse drawn unit and the teeth are several inches shorter then the Ferguson.
 
I actually have 2 of them and need to make one god complete unit out of the 2. If you did not have a soil crust they would knock out the very small fine weeds just starting. Crust and not strong enough to do that. Alone will make a very nice fine level seed bed just like you would want in a garden after it was disked.
 
Ye Olde Ferguson Weeder!
We had one actually. When sprays took over from mechanical weeding we still found a little job for it. We grew winter field beans which we planted by drilling the seed onto the surface of the ground then we would plough them in. We then used to give the land a roll down once the ploughing had dried a little then give it a does of Simazine which was a pre emergence herbicide. The following spring we would run the Ferguson Weeder over it coupled to our M-F 135 which would give it a final levelling and pull out any surviving small weeds such as cleavers (which Simazine would not control) but without damaging the bean plants themselves .
 
Years ago they called them "Roderick Lean" weeders. I guess that's who invented them. Worked pretty good on emerging weeds.
 
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