What do you use for cultivating your garden

[stuckmotor]

Thanks Sonny,
I haven't used mine in a while and forgot what shade the green was. I've also got a rusty 2 bottom plow with some green on it. It must be the Oliver I was thinking about.
Stuck

 

[Scooby074]

Im all raised beds now.

Used to use a 3 pronged hand held cultivator, now I use a Stihl 130R Kombi with Stihl's cultivator. It works like a dream!

 

[kf4uda]

I'm with jordan. Old tiller and a new hoe.

docrocky, I lay my rows off with my 861 Ford tractor and a middle buster. I lay off the first row as straight as I can then follow the edge of the last row with the edge of the tire. That gives me about a 34" row witch works good with the G.

 

[docrocky]

Dear Chris and others interested: You might note from some of my other threads that I am the "nut Job" who tried to hook up a front tine rototiller (Huskey 16" TSC) with a small mini bike to till my narrow rows of the garden (28") which is about 500 feet by 90 feet. I kinda wore out my back the last few years tilling the weeds. I have medium tractors and small garden sized tractors with rear tillers but I end up destroying 1/2 a row of crop before I notice it. I saw your tread with the AC-G and remember seeing something similar at a scrap yard about 15 years ago before I started my garden projects. About 3 weeks ago I asked my wife to pick up some TSC catalogs looking for sweeps for a Farmal Super C cultivator that I ran across. OMG, she brings me a few booklets on "Auction-time.com" and buried 40 pages later there is an AC-G up from auction on the internet from an outfit just north of Detroit about 90 miles north of where I am in NW Ohio. The auction took place 10 days ago and it started off rather reasonable to about 4500 but i was sure it would go for 5000 plus. I sort of set my limit around 6000 but in the last minute it shot up over 7000. It got to be auction frenzy but i thought it was worth it and i plunged ahead...I won at 7500 and went and picked it up this past week end. Oh it has a hydraulic lift for the cultivators. The people who sold it used it for some 20+ years to cultivate their sweet corn but decided last year to stop and decided to sell the unit. They operate a farm and construction equipment sales and service and have a large yard full of used agriculture and const equipt. They had it set up to cultivate 30"+ rows. I tried their set up on my 28" rows and take a look at what I did.

 

[stuckmotor]

When I had a couple acres of watermellons I found that I could save myself lots of work by raking the soil around them before the weeds and grass got started. The rows were wide and I ran a cutaway disk between them a couple of times then let the grass grow to shade the mellons.
Stuck

 

[kf4uda]

Dear Chris and others interested:

Awsome! You got a good looking G there. I envy you with the hydraulics. Ours has the "armstrong" lift system Congratulations on the best cultivating tractor out there (in my opinion).

 

[Jordan9682]

I've been using this between my rows

 

[yelbike]

I've been using this between my rows
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Do you mount that to the 3pt hitch or fel?

 

[TomSeller]

Do you mount that to the 3pt hitch or fuel?

I think it attaches to your two 5 point hitches.

 

[kf4uda]

I've been using this between my rows
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Those do a good job. The original design was called a garden weasel. http://www.gardenweasel.com/