jimgerken
Veteran Member
As a farm kid, I used to cultivate corn with a rotary 3-point mounted cultivator behind a IH 656. Pretty ugly at times. If it goes a bit off-row, you have to correct and that means swinging the 3-point implement further off-row for a time (your error is magnifyed when you correct course). I hated that job. I have seen little mounted cultivators on the sides of small red tractors, and sure wish I could build up something that could work on my JD 3720. Its wide-front of course. And my corn field is pretty small these days, maybe 1/4 acre. I plant with a 2-row 3-point planter built of two JD 71 units on a toolbar, 30 inch spacing. I could use the tractor's loader mount arms to hang something on, each side. But underneith would not be as easy.
What if it was a pull-type implement? If it used the drawbar there would be less of that magnifying effect when you go off-row. It seems that some combination of wheelbase and drawbar length and sweep position could make it a better-tracking setup than the 3-point. Any input here? Ideas, other experience? Thanks.
What if it was a pull-type implement? If it used the drawbar there would be less of that magnifying effect when you go off-row. It seems that some combination of wheelbase and drawbar length and sweep position could make it a better-tracking setup than the 3-point. Any input here? Ideas, other experience? Thanks.