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I am not a big fan of spray to be honest because they just cost so much these days. I am planting 10 acres of sunflowers next year, and just sitting here thinking outside the box. I have a 4 row cultivator that works great till the sunflowers get to tall but is there anyway to cultivate them after? I thought about planting 38" rows and getting alittle snapper lawn mower and that is 30" wide and attaching some cultivators on it and doing one middle at a time lol. It will take forever but I have plenty of time because I just work weekends and off all week. Is there any other tractors that narrow or do you have any other ideas? It's gotta be something I can ride. lol
 
sounds like ya have enough time to build a honest to goodest HICROP
give ya something to do this winter
about 7 feet clearance where the two rows are at should work good for ya
have fun
 
sounds like a plan to me. i don't know if a little snapper has any pulling power though, arn't they the ones with the cone type deal for mechanical varible speed? find a good mower with no stuff like that. i'd stay away from transaxles too. qualifier... i don't know much about lawn equipment.
 
I have been looking for a high crop but my goodness at the prices! How would you build one?
 
Heres an idea, D17 Hi-Clearance tractor. Its not a hi-crop but it sets up there. Price wise there not to high $2500 to $4000 will buy one. Some are narrow front and some have a single wheel. Just an idea. Bandit
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When sunflowers use to be popular around here, most farmers used a single digger shank with one wide sweep shovel for each row. So a four row cultivator would have five sweeps. If you kept it clean until your regular tractor runs out of clearance, they usually have enough canopy that late season weeds arent a problem. We use to put Treflan down before we planted and then would only have to cultivate them once, and sometimes not at all. Our biggest problem with raising sunflowers were blackbirds, they can really clean out a lot of seeds in a short time.
 
if you can keep the field _free_ of weeds till they're too tall to cultivate, my experience is they'll shade the ground and you're set to go. i use 36" rows. if you went down to 34 or 30, i'd imagine you'd get even better canopy closure.
btw i cultivate with a super C wide front.
 
This is my cultivator it's a 8 row. I just use it as a four row since I only have a 4 row planter and I leave the sides up.
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Ok thanks for the info I will be planting 30" rows so they should work better I was afraid they wouldn't canopy to well that is great to hear!!
 
like this one
startout with an old IH h, m, Oliver 66,77,88 or ?
anything with axles sticking out in the back to hang sprockets on the back to drive the wheels way below
weld up a pipe frame under it as high as you want
more pic's out there just gotta hunt
have fun this winter
Ron
hi
 
You aint kidding that would work great! I'm sure how I would attach cultivators but I'm sure it wouldn't be hard!!
 
Well after the other guys talk about the canopy I will just cultivate them till I can't anymore and see what happens. If that doesn't work not this winter but next winter I will be building one on those for sure!! I would rather spend money building a cultivating tractor than spraying!
 
just cultivate untill you caN"T ( LAID BY) you"ll be fine! Do you have s sunflower head for your combine?
good luck
Ron
 
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