Corn row cultivator mounting positions ideas needed.

[Taylortractornut]

We call it cultivator blight when we make a bobble lol. Farmshow had a man that built and sell hydraulically side shifted cultivators. I have a one row I pull with the big Yanmar with the inner teeth off and wide sweeps on the next set. I normally like using one of our Cubs for cultivation. We cultivate and later distribute ammonia nitrate in a spreader and then run a set of hillers on a Cub or tool bar to hill the fertilzer up on the the plants. It holds them and helps aerate the soil. If you had an willing helper an old attachment called a wiggle hoe would work. Its a ride on cultivator with lang levers to run the cultivator in and out. A new variation on this is called a Reigi Weeder.

Video Clip: Weed Em and Reap Part 1. Reigi Weeder - eXtension

 

[jimgerken]

That thing is cool. Is that the right tool for corn though? I was thinking I wanted something that would hill the dirt up to the plants.

 

[Taylortractornut]

You could try a regualer one row set of cultivators and add a tool bar to run a setto fo disc hillers to hill the corn.

 

[BrianR]

I picked up 4 "hiller" units from a neighbor who tossed them on the scrap iron pile. Once I get my toolbar finished I will bolt it to my TSC 1-row cultivator to move soil up around the base of the corn plants and also put down some Prowl 3.3 EC herbicide at the same time.

Pics below show the hiller unit just mocked up to the cultivator to place mount points.

 

[dougg]

If you mount a coulter wheel in the center of your planter it will create a ditch for a similar coulter to run in on your cultivator, thus keeping a 2 row cultivator centered. You'll find a lot of these 2 row cultivators with a center mounted coulter wheel on craigslist. Lilliston rolling cultivators are good for hilling corn or you could mount some discs or just mount a wide sweep at a steep angle.

 

[jimgerken]

Dougg, is the coulter added to the planter to be mounted in front of the planter units? Or behind the planter units? I assume ahead of the planters. Any pics of this setup? Would it be just one coulter? Seems like that would make a slice, but not really a furrow. Could it be a sweep instead? That would make a shallow furrow. Thanks for the help.

 

[rambler]

If you could get the toolbar heavy enough, you could put rolling coulters just at the edge of each of the rows to help keep the unit from skipping around if one side grabs harder than the other. And if you had the coulters, you could mount a liquid fert knife just behind one coulter on each row and inject liquid fertilizer at the same time. Just put a TSC 12volt dc pump on the toolbar, and pop a small tank on with some sprayer hose and a regulator. Voila!!

Used to cultivate with a front (really mid-) mount cultivator on an IHC 300 tractor, then an Oliver S77. They worked will, easy to see/control as you say. I've seen up to 8 row wide versions, I've heard of 12 row models - they really surround a tractor!

Then used a rear 3pt mount, yes it took a learning curve to get good with it, but in a year I was able to do as well with it. The big coulter does help to keep it trailing straight.

Four and 6 row models are selling for $3200 a ton right now, no one wants them. Go to a few farm auctions around you & pick up all the pieces you need for scrap price.

Forget the trailer idea, does not work, they will pull to the side bad...

There are fancy side-shift controls, hyd, even with feelers to auto-adjust. You don't want to know what they cost new, they too are selling for scrap but tend to be rather big 8 & 12 row stuff....

Wouldn't be too hard to build up a mid-mount cultivator for yuor tractor from some scrap parts.

Drive slow and careful with the 3pt, one learns how to do it with a little practice. I realize the learning curve could be very hard on your small patch tho.


--->Paul

 

[rambler]

A new variation on this is called a Reigi Weeder.

Video Clip: Weed Em and Reap Part 1. Reigi Weeder - eXtension

Wow, never saw anything like that. Be interesting to watch the ground wash away on my rolling hills. Probaly a little labot intensive for several 100 acres of corn & beans? But a cool thing in it's place, neat link.

--->Paul

 

[Snaker]

I grew up with the little Fords and 3 pt equipment. Cultivating is difficult and exhausting steering from the rear, so to speak. We picked up a used guide pointer that had a clamp bolt that mounted to one of the front axle adjustment holes. The pointer rod dropped through the clamp and was adjusted to just above the corn row. Someone said it was actually a Ford part. Very easy to steer with that. You could make something similar.

 

[Luremaker]

Wow, never saw anything like that. Be interesting to watch the ground wash away on my rolling hills. Probaly a little labot intensive for several 100 acres of corn & beans? But a cool thing in it's place, neat link.

--->Paul

Around here we call that an Eco Weeder. Very expensive... a one row unit is over $4,000.

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