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

 

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[mo1]

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.

Use a larger tractor with more ground clearance. People used to use full sized tractors for crop cultivation before herbicide-resistant crops came along. That was the whole reason tricycle front ends were developed, they fit between rows. Later on when tricycle front ends fell out of favor, (2wd) tractors with wide front ends were used. You typically got about 18" or so of ground clearance with a 2wd wide front end tractor, which was enough to clear crops that were still short enough to need cultivation. Taller than that and they'd shade out weeds themselves. If you need more clearance, there still are high-crop tractors available with tall skinny tires like sprayers use.

 

[Randy Gann]

Some mentioned the Farmall Cub others commented on its lack of power. Step up to the larger Farmall Super A or Farmall 140. Even has a little more ground clearance than the Cub. May cost a little more than a Cub but still a great tractor for cultivation.

 

[bcp]

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

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