Barring Rows

[taylorsrus]

Long ago, I heard of barring rows by turning the hillers around on a Farmall 140, 100, Super A, and similar tractors so that they pull the dirt in the opposite direction, away from the rows. I'm not familiar with barring rows and was just curious when would you ever need to do it. Thanks!

 

[scdeerslayer]

Never heard it called that but we do that to remove the grass from rows and you're only left with a 4" or so strip with grass. Always called that "cultivating". A pair of disks, then outside of that a pair of regular plows, and the plows behind the tires pretty much cover the entire row.

 

[TerryR]

That's how we did it in the 50's and 60's when I was on the farm. A pair of disks either side of the row, 3 or 4" apart on the front bar of the front cultivator. Then knives behind them on the second bars to cut the weeds out along side the row. Furrowing shovels on the rear cultivator, set so that at the right tractor speed the dirt covers the weeds in the row but not the crop plants. We used Farmall Hs for cultivating.

Stupid kids (like me) who thought they were too good to irrigate spent the day staring at the row of cops flashing past instead of relaxing most of the day in the shade. :confused2:

 

[taylorsrus]

Thanks TerryR and scdeerslayer. I can see now how this method can be very effective in managing grass and small weeds away from your plants. I'll have to give it a try next year.

 

[jimjumper]

That's how we did it in the 50's and 60's when I was on the farm. A pair of disks either side of the row, 3 or 4" apart on the front bar of the front cultivator. Then knives behind them on the second bars to cut the weeds out along side the row. Furrowing shovels on the rear cultivator, set so that at the right tractor speed the dirt covers the weeds in the row but not the crop plants. We used Farmall Hs for cultivating.

Stupid kids (like me) who thought they were too good to irrigate spent the day staring at the row of cops flashing past instead of relaxing most of the day in the shade. :confused2:

We had an H and did that. Had to match the cultivator rows with the original planter rows to keep from plowing under the crop plants. Nothing like seeing your father standing at the end of the field waiting for you to get back to "Talk!" to you after mistakenly plowing under $20-25 of soybeans!

 

[Big Barn]

We had an H and did that. Had to match the cultivator rows with the original planter rows to keep from plowing under the crop plants. Nothing like seeing your father standing at the end of the field waiting for you to get back to "Talk!" to you after mistakenly plowing under $20-25 of soybeans!

OR on a warm day (after a late night ) falling asleep and driving off the end of field into the creek. Only happened the one time.

Pic from the early 70's



Terry

 

[TerryR]

We had an H and did that. Had to match the cultivator rows with the original planter rows to keep from plowing under the crop plants. Nothing like seeing your father standing at the end of the field waiting for you to get back to "Talk!" to you after mistakenly plowing under $20-25 of soybeans!

Yes, you had to know where the "guess row" was as we called it - the space between two passes of the planter. You don't want to straddle that one.

We called the result of inattention "cultivator blight." Very frowned upon by fathers. I found I did best if I got thinking about something else and drove like a zombie. But I still recall being started by the rapidly approaching fence at the end of the row when I'd been "in the zone."

 

[jimjumper]

Yes, you had to know where the "guess row" was as we called it - the space between two passes of the planter. You don't want to straddle that one.

We called the result of inattention "cultivator blight." Very frowned upon by fathers. I found I did best if I got thinking about something else and drove like a zombie. But I still recall being started by the rapidly approaching fence at the end of the row when I'd been "in the zone."

I still remember my Father yelling at me "Jesus Christ! Don't you ever look behind you when your on that thing?!!"