Very much a newbie (just putting an order in for a 2230 this week). I will be mowing a couple of acres and keeping a couple hundred feet of dirt road and driveway in condition. Question I have is what attachment would be good for "hilling" up soil after tilling. I live in a flat area where some crops need to be hilled up. Any suggestions? /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif
furrows after tilling
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My tiller, as most do I assume, has an adjustable rear "gate" to smooth the ground after a tiller pass. You could probably fab something to bolt to this gate to create some furrows. Should be easy and fairly inexpensive..
Ron
Ron
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Ah, yes...
What you are looking for is called a "furrow diker."
If you do a Google search on this term, or related terms such as "basin tillage," you should find what you are looking for.
My experience with the furrow diker comes from Idaho, where we used flood irrigation in our fields. Typically, a field is divided into multiple "lands" with low dikes (maybe eight to 12 inches high). The dikes allow you to flood one land at a time from an irrigation ditch. Without the dikes, it would be very difficult to get the water to flow by gravity just where you wanted it to go.
For what you want to do you could probably fabricate a light-duty version of a furrow diker to fit on your 3ph.
What you are looking for is called a "furrow diker."
If you do a Google search on this term, or related terms such as "basin tillage," you should find what you are looking for.
My experience with the furrow diker comes from Idaho, where we used flood irrigation in our fields. Typically, a field is divided into multiple "lands" with low dikes (maybe eight to 12 inches high). The dikes allow you to flood one land at a time from an irrigation ditch. Without the dikes, it would be very difficult to get the water to flow by gravity just where you wanted it to go.
For what you want to do you could probably fabricate a light-duty version of a furrow diker to fit on your 3ph.
I would suggest you get a disk bedder. It looks a lot like regular disks, but is used after preparing the seed bed and will generally bed rows up to 16" high. Here's an example web site:
Disk Bedder. My cousing swears by his. He uses Two gang disks to prepare and then a similar-to-the-example disk bedder. They make easy work of bedding. John
Disk Bedder. My cousing swears by his. He uses Two gang disks to prepare and then a similar-to-the-example disk bedder. They make easy work of bedding. John
Buster57
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I got all excited about the Disk Bedders, but after reviewing the WEB page, isn't this application for grown up tractors? Seems like the 22" raised beds need 90 hp or more? That is serious horse power.
Maybe I read the information incorrectly? I hope I did because creating raised beds off the back of a CUT would be great.
Maybe I read the information incorrectly? I hope I did because creating raised beds off the back of a CUT would be great.
I looked for a while for some small versions of these things. You can find one in the AgriSupply catalogue by the name of Keulavator ...or somthing like that.
I almost ordered that one, but I found a more versitile tool locally. The one I have has a 5 ft toolbar to which can be mounted cultivators (up to 4), middlebusters, smallish moldboard, or sets of outrigging disks (14" notched).
It works really well, but good luck in finding one...the one I bought I got used, and it was made by Ag-Meier, Inc. in Brenham, TX.
It's not that complex of an impliment, and I would bet one could be made with very little welding skill and a little part shopping from andy TSC or AgriSupply.
Sam
I almost ordered that one, but I found a more versitile tool locally. The one I have has a 5 ft toolbar to which can be mounted cultivators (up to 4), middlebusters, smallish moldboard, or sets of outrigging disks (14" notched).
It works really well, but good luck in finding one...the one I bought I got used, and it was made by Ag-Meier, Inc. in Brenham, TX.
It's not that complex of an impliment, and I would bet one could be made with very little welding skill and a little part shopping from andy TSC or AgriSupply.
Sam
</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Seems like the 22" raised beds need 90 hp or more? )</font> My cousin uses a NH TC30 to pull his bedders. There are many manuf. who make bedders for CUTs. I'll call and ask him what brand his are. Let you know. Do you really need 22" beds? I wouldn't think so. John
As I posted earlier, I called my cousin, but he's not at home and can't remember the name of his bedders, but Leinback makes some small, 2 disk bedders and I took some pictures of them at my dealer's today. What's showing are two different colors. The disks fold out perpendicular to where they're show in the pics, then pics of a single disk and it's shaft from each side. John
Leinbach bedder
Leinbach bedder
The Yellow one. (they're stacked up behind the red ones).
Leinbach Bedder Y
Leinbach Bedder Y
One disk / one side
Single disk
Single disk
One Disk, the other side.
Any Leinbach Dealer should be able to get these for you. John
Single Disk other side
Any Leinbach Dealer should be able to get these for you. John
Single Disk other side
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These look a bit like the thing ASC sells. I forget the name...something like Agrigator or somethin glike that. It can be had w/ hilling disk or points.
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Below is stuff I copied from another thread on this earlier. The Twin Oaks folks just till and then shovel pathways for wheelbarrows/walking with a shovel. My organic gardening teacher has a furrow plow with adjustable sides that he puts onto his BCS tractor after tilling to make pathways.
Below is from the previous thread:
Row hiller
In Agra supply catalog.
Called Keulavator Row Shaper & Cultivator Frame for $139.95
for 3 pt hitch.
The 3pt keulavator from Agri-Supply at $139 is misleading. The complete price is just over $400 which gives you 2 hillers, 2 sweeps, and 2 shanks plus mounting hardware. Just the frame by itself is $139.
I have never done this and don't even have a garden but was wondering if you couldn't make the beds with a rear blade. With the soil well tilled and a rear blade at max angle wouldn't the windrows form beds. I have cut ditches with a blade and it works well to a point. Might even pay to buy a short 4' blade just for that purpose.
i use a 5' blade to make raised beds.started out with a row hipper set as far apart as possible & ended up with 4 rows.then i put the 5' blade on & pushed the 2 outside rows into the 2 inside.makes really wide ,deep beds.
Ralph
Below is from the previous thread:
Row hiller
In Agra supply catalog.
Called Keulavator Row Shaper & Cultivator Frame for $139.95
for 3 pt hitch.
The 3pt keulavator from Agri-Supply at $139 is misleading. The complete price is just over $400 which gives you 2 hillers, 2 sweeps, and 2 shanks plus mounting hardware. Just the frame by itself is $139.
I have never done this and don't even have a garden but was wondering if you couldn't make the beds with a rear blade. With the soil well tilled and a rear blade at max angle wouldn't the windrows form beds. I have cut ditches with a blade and it works well to a point. Might even pay to buy a short 4' blade just for that purpose.
i use a 5' blade to make raised beds.started out with a row hipper set as far apart as possible & ended up with 4 rows.then i put the 5' blade on & pushed the 2 outside rows into the 2 inside.makes really wide ,deep beds.
Ralph
