Experience

Allan in NE · Apr 7, 2016

Anyone with experience with one of these cultivators? Thinking about last pass before planting wheat?

Thanks,

Allan

RandyB(MI) · Apr 7, 2016

We always called them "Sweedish Tines". That is what we used ours for was last pass before everything. They worked better with a little higher speed so don't go too wide for HP. Not made for fall deep tillage.

flying belgian · Apr 7, 2016

Yes, the sweedish or "S" tine was more popular on a row crop cultivator. I had one but got rid of it for a rigid shank. It just is not aggressive enough to kill weeds. It is similar to a spring tooth drag for results. If the weeds are up then it is to late for this tool. If you would follow your field cult. the next day it would prepare a nice seed bed but if you have a decent 3 bar harrow on cult. there is no need to go over it again with this tool.

Wheatfarmer · Apr 7, 2016

We had the hard shank, but the tines in the read worked great for the last pass before drilling. Would go as shallow as I could. I would think your rig would do a good job if not to much trash.

RBoots · Apr 7, 2016

We had a 22' just about like that one. We pulled it with an Oliver Super 88 diesel, it didn't pull real hard. It did a real nice job in chopped wheat or soybean stubble. If there were weeds or corn stubble, forget it, it would plug like no tomorrow. Didn't matter if you disked it or not, if it had green weed matter, it would plug.

Ross

notjustair · Apr 7, 2016

Got two of them. As was said, they prep a good seed bed but if you have weeds over six inches tall or lots of trash you want to disk first. Some years I only use the cultivator. Some years it all has to be disked first. We've got some clay here so just disking isn't an option.

CDN 400 · Apr 7, 2016

That's either a 960 or 980 looks more like a 980. Excellent cultivator we have a 24' we pull with a CaseIh 7120. We still mouldboard and chisel plow in the fall and use those only in the spring no discing in our clay unless you want to make bowling balls. I guarantee you won't pull 22' of them with a 88 oliver they are heavy and will push a 70 hp tractor all over just moving down the road.

OliverGuy · Apr 7, 2016

I have a 32' 960 rigid shank. I'm not sure on the S shanks. People say my 960 is built light, but it's held together for me. I have a heavy 5 bar harrow, so I red necked up some weight in the tongue to off set that

Adirondack case guy · Apr 7, 2016

I find it funny, that around here we call the S tines "Danish Tines". Are we a country off????
Loren

oc-18guy · Apr 7, 2016

we have always called them Danish tines too.

RBoots · Apr 7, 2016

At the farm we used it at, it was light sand soil. The Super 88 weighed 8,100 field ready. Pulled it in 4th gear, 3rd on the hills. You looked like a raccoon when done, the black smoke from the S88 would hang in that valley and always seemed to be a cloud around you. S-tine, had all new shanks and the "duck foot" teeth, all new teeth. Wasn't the same brand as the one Allan has pictured, just set up the same. I don't remember what make it was, it was green, and had depth wheels on the hyd fold wings. It just didn't fit our needs, we had to use our field cultivator anyway, so we just used that instead of the S-tine. Dad sold the center section to a buddy, and cut the wings up and made a leveler for the back of our Glencoe chisel plow. I took them off last year, they would drag weeds behind the chisel plow just as they did by themselves. We no longer farm the fields we used the S-tine in, they were so sandy they never produced well, we put them in CRP probably 15 years ago. That was another factor in selling/cutting up the S tine.

Ross

Leroy · Apr 7, 2016

Same here in Ohio.

billyar · Apr 7, 2016

You cannot believe how much noise those tines make going thru a combine. We broke a boat load of them.

GordoSD · Apr 7, 2016

There are regular clearance and high clearance tines. That one is regula r and will plug easily.

Funtwohunt · Apr 7, 2016

We use one just like that for a final finish before we plant most all our grains. Works out real well.

Kent Petersen · Apr 8, 2016

they are called Danish in South Dakota to

Bobl1958 · Apr 8, 2016

Hi Allen. That will do a good job of settling the ground. I always try to just go only deep enough to clip the weeds, or cover the fertilizer if you have spread it first.

I used to make the final pass with the field cultivator just after I spread the fertilizer, be it dry or liquid. Then plant.

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