Compact tractor height for crops

[VroomVroom]

What do you guys do in regards to weeding larger gardens with compact tractors? The ground clearance is not enough to clear potatoe stocks for example. If using a cultivator for example.

 

[arto98607]

I like the looks of an old Farmall Cub and it has the ground clearance but...

 

[VroomVroom]

Yeah. Sad part is I own 50% of an old farmall m. But brother and I don’t get along. If I got it going it would just end up at some lazy %€#% up the road who don’t work but wants to use it for something until it’s broken

 

[Alan W.]

I owned a cub once. They are really weak.
A Kubota 245H is what ya need. Have been trying to find one in my price range for awhile.
Problem with small CUTs is the ground clearance. Not a lot you can do.

 

[VroomVroom]

Yeah it’s bad. I saw the 2816 with ag tires on, it did make a good bit of difference. Not sure if it would be enough. But they almost made it look like a different tractor

 

[Gee Ray]

Buy a Cub for a few thousand dollars to work the garden. There is nothing in the price range that can replace the Cub. It is good tool for a specific job, not a do all tractor. A set of plows, a disk, cultivators, sickle bar mower all work well on the Cub. With loaded tires, wheel weights front and back they are amazing little machines. Are they fast, no. I do not think you want to go fast when you are cultivating. New tractor, FEL, tiller may run a little faster but cost 10 times the money. And you will not be able to work the garden.

There are new cultivating tractors, Tilmore and Ogden but they are pricey.

 

[VroomVroom]

Some recommended making it wide enough between hills/rows to use the tiller to cultivate the weeds. Removing the need to pass over the rows

 

[jeff9366]

Some recommended making it wide enough between hills/rows to use the tiller to cultivate the weeds. Removing the need to pass over the rows

Cultivating between rows is what two-wheel tractors do. BCS, Grillo, Gravely, etc.

 

[LouNY]

No I has mentioned the best truck gardening tractor yet the Allis Chalmers G;
1948 Allis-Chalmers Model G

 

[IndyJay]

I was just looking at this little gem on CL...

Centaur garden tractor - farm & garden - by owner - sale

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