What's the name of attachment?

[Wavephf]

Hello everyone. I can seem to find a name for the attachment I'm looking for. Last year I had my field plowed and planted. The guy I hired put furrows down the field for flood irrigation with gated pipe. I have seen simple furrowers that use small plows to put the water rows in and some use a plow and a disc. The one that he used looked homemade but may have been a manufactured item. It had a 10' curved channel (half a pipe) with solid steel shoes mounted under it to make the water rows. The channel would compact the soil slightly while making the rows so every row was uniform. It seems that there are several names of implements that are similar but I cant find a picture or the name of what I'm looking for. It is similar to a garden bedder but I need furrows 4-6" wide every 30". The guy who did the work last year called it a corrugator. I have searched for furrower, corrugator, hiller, ditcher with no success.

I could probably draw a bad picture of it if my description was to undefined.

I am new to farming and don't know all the terminology.

Thanks

 

[M5farms]

ripper bedder ?? are you sure it was not called a cultivator

 

[beowulf]

ripper bedder ?? are you sure it was not called a cultivator

Cultivator would be my guess. I have not seen one for a while but recall them being used on my uncle's farm in Nebraska when I was about 8 years old. For weed control between planted crops is my recollection.

 

[Wavephf]

I didn't think a cultivator made rows I always see them with spring teeth that don't compact the row after. Think of a land plane with small rounded shoes under it and used for making the row that the water flow down on a freshly plowed and seeded field. the ripper bedder is close to what I'm thinking of just without the rippers. So it might just be a bedder that is sized for the gated pipe.

 

[M5farms]

Cultivator would be my guess. I have not seen one for a while but recall them being used on my uncle's farm in Nebraska when I was about 8 years old. For weed control between planted crops is my recollection.

there are several types of what people call cultivators, Most common has sweeps like you saw for weeding between row crops. we don't flood irrigate here so I am perplexed as to what he is describing , but the premise is the same for bedding and leaving furrows

 

[bcp]

Maybe a form of bed shaper.

bed shaper

 

[Wavephf]

Bed shaper looks pretty close.
http://jfmco.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Bed-Shaper-3-row-in-action.jpeg

 

[bcp]

"Bed former" search gets lots of similar implements, too.

Bruce

 

[Wavephf]

Ok I just talked to the guy that did my field last year and he said it a corrugater or ditcher bar. He said he has 2 different ones one with rounded shoes for new fields and one with pointed shoes for established fields. I'm going to build a smaller version of both for my vineyard that gets the tail water from my hay field. I am planning on running the tractor between rows to mow and I know I will have to maintain the furrows.

 

[bcp]

Interesting how implement names differ around the country.

I had a friend who was positive that what we call a backhoe was a trencher, and what we call a rear blade was really a backhoe.

Bruce