4-Row Cultivator Questions...

[NHTC30]

What will you be pulling the cultivator with? If it's the tractor pictured under your name, I don't think it will even pick up a rear mounted 4 row cultivator, they are pretty heavy. You might be able to use the tool bar for the cultivator, and take the plow gangs for the outside rows off and be able to handle it, but you may even have to go down to one row. I know that the WD Allis we farmed with could pull one, they used to pull them all the time with WD's and WD 45's, but anything smaller they either used two row front mounts or even one row front mount cultivators. I believe that the old 2N through 8n Fords came with a back mount two row cultivator. You are probably going to need 40 horses or more for a 4 row.

 

[JC-jetro]

What will you be pulling the cultivator with?

let me have a stab at it with the chance of embarrassing myself Hopefully I'm not way out in the left field.

I have a Ford 1700 with about 25 pto and maybe 27 hp at the draw bar. have a very few implement such as a rotary cutter, a home made boom, a KK carry all and a KK bottom buster. I got a chisel point for my BB to be able to break the soil and sod. I have been able to loosen up soil down to depth of 9 to 12 inches easily. I have enough hp to pull a one row cultivator shown below. see the pics below.





I was hoping after going back and forth be able to loosen up stuff in a row that is 3 to 4 feet wide and up to 150 feet long. I then wanted to use a KK cultivator pictured below to fluff things up if all goes well then I intend to use the furrower and mound me a hill that is 8" tall and may be 24" wide and however long.






I then was planning to lay earth fabric (same as weed block) on the mound and every so often cut an opening and plant tomato plants. I would provide some water source and would fence this narrow long strip twice as wide as my tractor with some rudimentary gate at both ends. I would not have to turn around with my tractor in this corridor. Now that's my plan.


Is there any hope?

ps. Folks laugh all you want. I sure can take it. This is when a city folk decides to play farmer John.


My plan 'B" is to buy a 4 or 5 foot KK rotary tiller ( chi-ching) if all fails

 

[Farmwithjunk]

What will you be pulling the cultivator with? If it's the tractor pictured under your name, I don't think it will even pick up a rear mounted 4 row cultivator, they are pretty heavy. You might be able to use the tool bar for the cultivator, and take the plow gangs for the outside rows off and be able to handle it, but you may even have to go down to one row. I know that the WD Allis we farmed with could pull one, they used to pull them all the time with WD's and WD 45's, but anything smaller they either used two row front mounts or even one row front mount cultivators. I believe that the old 2N through 8n Fords came with a back mount two row cultivator. You are probably going to need 40 horses or more for a 4 row.

HP won't be the issue. LIFTING capacity of the 3-point hitch might be though. Growing up, I spent a LOT of time on a 32 hp (gas) MF50 with a 4 row rear mounted cultivator on it. It would crawl along @ 1000 rpm with no effort. Probably produced less than 25 hp at that rpm.

Also, a lower profile compact tractor might have trouble, even if it can raise the weight, getting the cultivator far enough off the ground to clear plant rows on turns.