Farmall & IHC Tractors Discussion Board |
Re: Re: Re: SA cultivator set up
[ Expand ] [ View Follow Ups ] [ Post Followup ] [ Return to Forum ]
Posted by mikeinWA on June 01, 2004 at 23:05:42 from (69.29.192.40):
In Reply to: Re: Re: SA cultivator set up posted by CNKS on June 01, 2004 at 19:11:31:
CNKS- Thanks for the info. Against my better judgement I am going to go into a little detail. I grow a market garden from artichokes to zucchini. I have been paying a crew to hand weed between 8 & 12 acres for years and am finally graduating up to mechanical cultivation. I have puzzled and sketched, I have measured and measured again. The best system I can come up with is triple rows spaced 18' apart for most crops. That is a total bed width of 36" and leaves enough room for hand harvesting and weeding between tightly spaced crops like spinach and cilantro. My guys do not want the rows any tighter if there are three because of the geometry of straddling and reaching for weeding and harvesting. So, 36" bed width, add 9" either side for clearance (?), and my tires are about 10" wide. Total center to center for tires is 36+18+10=64. I apologize for not trusting this "A" as designed but frankly it looks a little spread out at this spacing. This spacing will however allow me to use the 3020 for seeding as it has a very similar inside dimension. If I use three seeders on 18" centers I can drop the center and seed corn on 36", or drop the outside two and seed squash on 72". It looks good on paper. I currently use a two row system for most crops but when I switch to tractor mount seeders I dont have a machine to match the tread of the "A" (3020) is set up just right for the plows and I dont want to start moving wheels all the time. I also hesitate to seed with the "A", I would rather leave it set up as a cultivator. I will try this as planned and keep people posted, I am still curious how much room is required between the outside rows and the inside of the tire to comfortably cultivate. Bored yet? If I read this site long enough I'll probably end up with more Farmalls and won't have to worry about anything but where to put the cot in the shop. Thanks and best wishes. Mike Peroni
Follow Ups:
Home
| Forums
Today's Featured Article -
Picking Corn - by Rick Nikolich. It was the day before Christmas shutdown at work and I asked our lead engineering expert Scott Andrzejewski what he was going to do over the holidays. He said that he had some corn that he still needed to pick with an antique one-row New Idea corn picker. Scott has a nice farm about an hour north of Lansing in St. Johns, MI. He wanted to get the rest of his corn in by the next day (Christmas Eve). We had about an inch of new snow on the ground and single digit temperatures. So in the bac
... [Read Article]
Latest Ad:
Sell 1958 Hi-Altitude Massey Fergerson tractor, original condition. three point hitch pto engine, Runs well, photos available upon request
[More Ads]
Copyright © 1997-2024 Yesterday's Tractor Co. All Rights Reserved. Reproduction of any part of this website, including design and content, without written permission is strictly prohibited. Trade Marks and Trade Names contained and used in this Website are those of others, and are used in this Website in a descriptive sense to refer to the products of others. Use of this Web site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement and Privacy Policy TRADEMARK DISCLAIMER: Tradenames and Trademarks referred to within Yesterday's Tractor Co. products and within the Yesterday's Tractor Co. websites are the property of their respective trademark holders. None of these trademark holders are affiliated with Yesterday's Tractor Co., our products, or our website nor are we sponsored by them. John Deere and its logos are the registered trademarks of the John Deere Corporation. Agco, Agco Allis, White, Massey Ferguson and their logos are the registered trademarks of AGCO Corporation. Case, Case-IH, Farmall, International Harvester, New Holland and their logos are registered trademarks of CNH Global N.V. Yesterday's Tractors - Antique Tractor HeadquartersWebsite Accessibility Policy |
|