Broke Ground For New Garden With Middlebuster!

[Car Doc]

Nice pics Travis are you trying to make the cabin fever worse for us or what! J/K

I bought a middle buster last season to harvest my potatoes and it worked so well I think I am going to plant them this year in mb rows and maybe the corn and squash also.

It should make irrigating so much easier and also hilling the taters will be so much easier having all that loose dirt to drag down.

I think I will do my squash and corn also I am always looking for ways to use the equipment rather than the old worn out back.

 

[Don87]

jinman, you know you cannot get those really neat rows with a MB.
The trick is to cover your sins by disking VERY nicely and no one knows.:laughing::laughing:

My theory is this. Don't let the process of getting better implements cause you not to put a garden in, even if you don't plant large ones that jinman and I do. I spend a lot of my time encouraging gardening and teaching young gardeners.

A lot of guys here on TBN show off their $2600 roto tillers and I think it intimidates a lot of folks. Yes, they are great, but for the $140 cost of a MB and a $260 field cultivator, or a section of spring tooth and folks can put in a garden.

Later, as funds permit and through careful watching of Craigs or farm sales, better implements can be added.

But mine only cost $1400

I have a cultivator, my BIL has the middlebuster.........we share, lol.

I do agree though, use what you can afford. But by all means plant a garden. It's fun and rewarding.

 

[drw]

I do eventually wanna get a 2 bottom plow. You CAN NOT find them where I'm located. I have never even seen one down here before.

Not exactly South LA, but I bought a double middle buster from a fellow just a bit north of Lindale, TX. He had a bunch of used implements and two double middle busters among them. I bought one of them for $250. Works beautifully, although I don't use it much now that I have a tiller.

 

[Bird]

Not exactly South LA, but I bought a double middle buster from a fellow just a bit north of Lindale, TX. He had a bunch of used implements and two double middle busters among them. I bought one of them for $250. Works beautifully, although I don't use it much now that I have a tiller.

I believe the double (or more) middle buster is generally referred to as a "bedder", at least in my part of the country. But a set of disks properly aligned to make "hills" is also known as a "bedder".

 

[hizoot]

Not exactly South LA, but I bought a double middle buster from a fellow just a bit north of Lindale, TX. He had a bunch of used implements and two double middle busters among them. I bought one of them for $250. Works beautifully, although I don't use it much now that I have a tiller.

MAN...what a small world. I just bought a spring harrow drag from the fellow north of Lindale last week. (his name was Jimmy Philpot) ..and Mr Philpot used to go to church with my folks back in the late 70's (after I had moved out) He is a really nice guy, and I will be watching his lot for future tractor jewelry...
also, Jacksonville is maybe 25 miles from Flint...We ought to have an east texas get together one of these days!

 

[drw]

You're right, Jimmy was a really nice guy. I was really surprised, actually, by how nice he was to me, given that I was a complete stranger from another town who just happened to drop by on my way home from the sale barn in Sulphur Springs.

also, Jacksonville is maybe 25 miles from Flint...We ought to have an east texas get together one of these days!

I'd sure be interested in that. And maybe a barn raising, too. :laughing: (I'm preparing to put up a barn)

 

[Travis_R]

Ok I had to put it off for a while, but I'm now back to doing a lot of work in the garden. It's come a long way.

Got a row of "RED" taters planted today!

BUT, couldn't use the tractor because we were in a hurry and I'm having HE** setting the row disks correctly!!! It's making rows, but it's leaving MAJOR clumps of dirt on/in the rows am I'm very VERY aggravated with it. This is my 3rd time to disk AND re-row everything! Did I mention I was HIGHLY disgusted??

I'll work at it again tomorrow because I refuse to give up. Just can't understand why the row disks are causing so much clumping of the dirt!!! Did i disk it deep enough?? Are the disks set correctly?? I haven't got a clue!!!!

From center to center on the rear wheels of my tractor is 58 inches. SO WHAT DOES THIS TELL ME AND WHAT DO I NEED TO DO??

I'm now pushed for time trying to get the tractor adjusted correctly and the crops in the ground.

Thanks for the replies!

 

[JoeinTX]

Trav, I'm not quite understanding your problem. You are discing it with a mounted tandem disc, no?

After the busting, a good single pass with the disc harrow should have done a great deal to break clods and smooth out ridges. Hub deep if you're pulling a 5-6' disc is plenty good and give it all the throttle it needs.

Advise further......

 

[Travis_R]

Trav, I'm not quite understanding your problem. You are discing it with a mounted tandem disc, no?

After the busting, a good single pass with the disc harrow should have done a great deal to break clods and smooth out ridges. Hub deep if you're pulling a 5-6' disc is plenty good and give it all the throttle it needs.

Advise further......

Here are a couple pics of my row disks (hippers). I have the garden disked up with the gang disks, but the row disks are throwing big clumps of dirt in the row. Don't know what to do. The dirt is just alittle damp but not much.

 

[Travis_R]

Here are some more pics of the row disks, which I adjusted on (made them wider to take out the tire tracks). Sorry if they aren't too clear. They were taken at night with a new camera that's gonna take some time getting familiar with. If everything goes well (yeah right), more pics will be added tomorrow during the daylight hours.

No matter how much I disk the ground with the gang disks, the row disks always seem like they're digging deeper, thus pulling un-disked ground into the row! (make sense?)

From center to center of the rear tires is 58 inches. If anybody could tell me what I need to do, I'll dance at your next wedding...