CornbeltKid
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why are they so cheap? I saw a 27 ft one for $700 in are local newspaper.
I think it was a couple of years ago, in the midwest, they were in high demand for one year. Just after planting, they got a big rain, then the sun came out and just baked the soil and crust got really hard and the plants couldn't push up thru the hard crust. If you had a rotary hoe, you could just hookup to it and run down the fields at 12 mph and that would bust up the soil enough to allow the plants to come thru. Dad was glad he still had his 16 ft rotary hoe that year. And yes, chemicals control the weeds nowadays, thus low demand/cheap.
I think it was a couple of years ago, in the midwest, they were in high demand for one year. Just after planting, they got a big rain, then the sun came out and just baked the soil and crust got really hard and the plants couldn't push up thru the hard crust. If you had a rotary hoe, you could just hookup to it and run down the fields at 12 mph and that would bust up the soil enough to allow the plants to come thru. Dad was glad he still had his 16 ft rotary hoe that year. And yes, chemicals control the weeds nowadays, thus low demand/cheap.