CULTIVATORS

[Ledgemere Farm]

I have a book on IH tractors that shows a picture of the mid-mount ones for my Farmall. They DO look kinda heavy.

 

[KennyV]

If you have a lot of acres to do, like everyone has said… don’t look back…

once everything is all set up, an occasional glance to the rear to see everything is still there… (Actually that glance to the rear is to help keep you from falling asleep)…

that is the most boring job you can do with tractor /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif. KennyV

 

[nomad]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Some folks concentrate on the future. Some live in the past. )</font>

"Some" can do these - but ALL folks are in "Now."
Now, what help can you offer to this poster complaining about looking at the past/rear while driving to the future?
Note the past/back/rear of the tractor is the future of its driver.

 

[Egon]

"Now."

Applied in this context the word is really meaningless as time just don't seem to stop. It's just like tomorrow, a day that never arrives!

Have you come up with a saddle that sits the rider facing the rear so he can tell where his horse has gone?

Egon

 

[RobS]

<font color="blue">Now, what help can you offer to this poster complaining about looking at the past/rear while driving to the future </font>

The simplest time machine of all... a mirror. Driver can keep his focus on the future where it belongs yet still have an occasional glance to the past without straining a bit /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[nomad]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Have you come up with a saddle that sits the rider facing the rear so he can tell where his horse has gone?)</font>

Sure. There was one, a humorous philosopher, lived among ordinary folks, who lived 700 years ago. (see him in the attachment.) He was saying the donkeys facing wrong way. Still so - as seen in our so-called high tech. tractors.

 

[kensfarm]

I actually enjoy doing the cultivating.. but I only had a couple hours worth per field.

I set the cultivator tines to hill the corn rows on either side.. I use the rows going under the tractor and the distance from the front wheels to keep "in track". I trt to get out there when the corn's about 6 inches tall.. we plant the beans rows at the same distance so we can use the cultivator when the bean plants are young.

My TC35D has the seat that swivals too.. not sure if it's just on the D models or not.

 

[Taylortractornut]

Ive used several types of cultivators on our hobby farm, but the ones on my Farmall Cub with the offset cultivision where you look down the center of the steering wheel is the best i think. I have used some on a 2 row Super C on the trant and rear that are easy to see to. We have a one row 3 point setup that came with our Yanmar that works well to but to make it work real good is to make sure all the slack is out of the 3 poitn hich and minimize sway. Plus it helps to get used to centering your tractor and gett a good feel for it. You still do get a platn once in a while.

 

[Ledgemere Farm]

My Farmall superceded the "Super C". I am pretty sure all of the "C" and "Super C" attachments will fit my "200". I have the "fasthitch" which blows away the 3-point hitch. I can attach and detach my plows without leaviing the seat! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[JerryG]

The fast hitch is sweet to use, but it doesn't transfer weigh to the tractor like a three point. I have used fast hitch tractors quite a bit and they do hitch and un-hitch really easy.