Re: Farm A and cultivators

Posted by Darren on June 28, 2003 at 00:00:32 from (207.220.164.193):

In Reply to: Farm A and cultivators posted by Josh on June 27, 2003 at 15:56:49:

Hey Josh,

Y'know, I'm a row cropper and I was just thinking of getting an A for cultivation. I use my '48 Cub now, rigged with 2" toolbars I had made, 2 on the belly and 2 on the rear, with s-tines and 7" shovels. The Cub is simply superior, good clearance and excelent visibility with the offset frame and engine. An A has all the same benefits with a little more umph.

As far as the factory cultivating system they made back then in the forties and fifties, I've got the Cub version and it's bogus. Solid clankety unforgiving old thing. Designed to straddle a single row in less-than-ideal conditions. Precision it is not. When they designed the thing it just had to be better than a horse drawn rig, which I guess it is. Farmer John down the road just called his factory C cultivators "weed transplanters" and I near laughed myself silly.

So my $0.02 is definitely yes on the A, but go with a more modern cultivating system. I'll likely hunt one down after the harvest is in and rig it like the Cub is now; 2" hollow square toolbar set flat with s-tines and those L-shaped knives (whadaya call those things, beet knives?) for getting in close. Spent a lot of time and cerebral energy to design it up just right. Paid off in spades.

As for cost, my experience on those old tools is paying for 'em is easy, finding 'em is not. Lotta luck involved.

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