Let's talk cultivators

grandpa Love

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• Apr 21, 2021

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Got the garden ready. Hills made with a cub. Question is, did I think it through enough? I made a hill, backed across the garden and made next hill with my right tire in the first hills track. When I put all the shanks on will this plan give me the room I need? First year with a cub in the garden. Cultivator manual ain't real helpful

As you can see I'm a very straight backer upper....

 

super99

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• Apr 21, 2021

• #1

Yes, should be just about right. If you have a 0ne row cultivator for the Cub, That will be perrrfect.

 

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larry@stinescorner

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• Apr 21, 2021

• #1

Looks great!!!

Your posts are making me sad

I no longer do any plowing or tractor work,thats over for me,so seeing your pictures tugs at my heart,,,lol

I did work up a feild the other day

I always used the FORD and 3 pt implements

Now,,I use wooden handle 2 PT Implements

 

Geo-TH,In

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• Apr 21, 2021

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GP.
It's been over 50 year since I cultivated corn or beans.
A corn planter never made hills. Ground was flat.
The idea of cultivating was to throw dirt from both sides to cover up the weeds in the row and not cover up the taller corn or beans.

Might want to go to YouTube and see how it's done.

Have fun with your cubs. Growing up on a dairy farm, I cultivated with 2 and 4 row cultivators.

George

 

560Dennis

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Location

Madison,Ohio

• Apr 21, 2021

• #1

Looks fine , continue

 

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grandpa Love

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• Apr 21, 2021

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Larry, your posts and projects are an inspiration to us all. Amazing to me how much you do! Keep on keeping on! We have done the garden with the fords and 3 point equipment the last several years. Looking forward to figuring out these cubs. Fun little tractors in the garden!

 

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cannonball

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• Apr 21, 2021

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my cub would make rows 42 inch center to center...looks like you used hillers..mine has rear plows that line up in the center of rear tire and that is where front tire goes on next row...basically same thing you are doing..

 

Jim in NC

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• Apr 21, 2021

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Grandpa if you have the rear cultivator beams, shanks, lift rods, and accessories you can plow out packed tire tracks and make a water furrow that will help water drainage. Pics are of a Super A. Cub setup is similar.

 

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grandpa Love

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• Apr 21, 2021

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Jim, got those bars. Will add shanks back there. And maybe 3 on each side underneath?

 

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larry@stinescorner

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• Apr 21, 2021

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if I Ever get down to visit yall,,I Want to drive a cub,,,ok????

 

Geo-TH,In

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• Apr 21, 2021

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Larry
My dad had an old cub with 4 ft woods belly mower.

The mag died. I used points, condenser from mag and hung a coil on it.

Worked for years.

I think the cub my have been the first compact tractor.

Farmalls aren't as popular as the old fords because they didn't have 3 pt.

I love my mom's Farmall C. Engine was rebuilt before I got it. I put a 6 ft woods belly mower on her. Great mower. The BOSS lives her too. I love the big coil spring on the seat. Can't beat the comfort.
I put a reese hitch on her and great tractor for pulling 10k dump trailer.

Love the sound of the slow running engine. Like true country music.

Don't know when I'll travel again. Waiting on everyone who wants a shot gets one before I hit the road.
George

 

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grandpa Love

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• Apr 21, 2021

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Larry, come drive them all! Fords too. Maybe the Massey Harris Pony?

 

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Traditional Farmer

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Location

Virginia

• Apr 21, 2021

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I used disk hillers,cultivate the first time with the hillers pulling the dirt away from the plants so I'm getting the weeds but not covering the plants.After the plants get up a little turn the hillers so they throw the dirt around and into the row,hilling the row up and covering the weeds between the plants.

 

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larry@stinescorner

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• Apr 21, 2021

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George,,you need to learn to sift through my BS,,,Lol,,,probably the only time I Get to travel will be in a box and a long black limo,,,lol

 

Jim in NC

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• Apr 21, 2021

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Use the belly mounted ones for cultivating Grandpa. Lots of farmers here in tobacco country made their own from horsedrawn cultivators. I prefer to use them.

 

Vito

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• Apr 21, 2021

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I prefer to be hauled on a flat deck wagon with my tractor pulling it. The limo thing is over rated.

Vito

 

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larry@stinescorner

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• Apr 21, 2021

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the s spreader would work for me,,,,

 

Geo-TH,In

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• Apr 21, 2021

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Larry
I was accused by my siblings of being born in a manure spreader. The real story I was born in a farm house. The lane to house was drifted shut. My dad had a spreader connected to a tractor. He drove tractor to highway and picked up the Dr. Hauled him to house in manure spreader. I've been spreading BS most of my life.
George

 

Hobo,NC

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Location

Sanford, NC

• Apr 21, 2021

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That works till the plants get high enoufh you can not cultivate with the tractor anymore. I leave enough space I can run my mower between the rows...

If you ever figure out how to set your tractor up with rolling cultivators you will never take them off... I have a 140 with a set on it that's all that tractor does is cultivate.