Narrow front tractors

My 3010s out playing around.

Do you exclusively scuffle the corn crop, spraying no
herbicide? Or do you do a blend?

My 960 baling hay. Stable as any
tractor I've been on

I spent thousands of hours of my youth running front mount cultivators. Usually on the front of a 656 or a 560. I remember when I finally scraped together the money to buy a used AM radio to mount on the
fender. My old man made me take off because he wanted me paying attention to cultivating not trying to find a radio station.

Scuffle the corn crop? Never heard that term?

Dad had one of the really GOOD Automatic brand tractor radios, big square box, 6 or 12 volt positive or negative ground. We farmed about 20 miles from the Mississippi River about 3 miles south of Interstate 80, Quad-City radio stations were easy to tune in, Moline, Rock Island, Davenport & Bettendorf. And I could get WLS from Chicago but when Dad used the big tractor that radio always went on after I changed the station I would always hear about it. Dad got me a smaller TENNA radio for my 14th B-day, had the same 6&12 volt and +/- ground switches but it really struggled pulling in Quad-City stations. Get too close to a power line and the signal disappeared. Really hard to beat those Automatic radios, they were the ones you could hear a mile away good enough to tell what song was playing but you couldn't hear the tractor it was on.
That Automatic was on a '47 M, the '51 M, '54 SM-TA, 450, and 4010. The radio would go on less than a minute after the tractor started. The neighbor I worked for never had a radio on ANY tractors till he bought a used 4230. Even the 4320 he ordered with a ROPS cab, heater & AC didn't have a radio. Made for some long days of fieldwork.
I still have the TENNA radio, but it has SONY guts AM/FM and cassette but I don't have anymore cassettes. I Don't really have any jobs that take long enough to need a radio on a tractor, except my one Cub Cadet, has a Pioneer AM/FM cassette with headphones, radio is under the seat, head phone cord comes up behind the seat, I've actually used it a LOT!

(quoted from post at 16:07:23 10/05/22) Scuffle the corn crop? Never heard that term?

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That's a new one on me also.

''Scuffle the corn crop''. (;>)) That's the first time in my 86 years on this planet I've heard that term used. A perfectly good, sensible way of describing it but it never occurred to me that anyone did.