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Originally Posted by farmerboybill Hey Highsmith,
Wow, you work fast! Congratulations on your purchase. What did Joel say about the cultivator being a poor mans spader?
Bill in WI |
As far as working fast, my wife and I have been researching our options for the last 4 years. And I never could get enthusiastic about the purchase of a 4 wheel tractor. I knew I needed something like it, and when I re-discovered the two-wheelers (I stumbled across them a year or two back) I knew immediately this could solve a lot of issues. I am excited about the purchase and very pleased NOT spending money on a 4 wheeler, which, for my current and forseeable future needs, is overkill.
Joel really didn't think the two were comparable. The spader does so much more to the ground than the cultivator and requires so much more from the tractor that it would be a very poor man indeed that settled for a cultivator when he needed a spader. My dirt is sandy loam and I can pick it up by the handful even in this dry, Texas heat so a spader is not necessary whereas I can find plenty of uses for the cultivator.
Joel helped me save money on the cultivator. I wanted the cultivator and the double ridger. He said he could just sell me the double ridger and the tines from the 6 tine cultivator from the Grillo implements. The tines will just clamp on to the framework of the double ridger and, Voila!, a cultivator.