Opinion Poll: Methods of Farming w Farmall offsets

[Ramon]

I have seen various posts here and there about what people do with their tractors but I was curious as to how most folks are farming with their offset Farmalls (Farmall Cub, Super A, Farmall 100/130/140). Do most folks do one row farming (as I have seen folks do two rows with 140s using a middle buster and hillers)? What steps do people in different regions use in preparing the seedbed (I have heard disk, plow disk in Fall versus plow,disk versus just chisel plowing in Spring). Waht equipment fo folks find critical for tending their garden/farm? Any collective wisdom or tricks passed down from older generations who bought these tractors news?
What are folks thoughts out there?

 

[Taylortractornut]

Ramon I truck patch with a Farmall CUb and I usually break with the one row plow then disc it with the factory pick up disc.The disc braeker that mounts in the middle of the tractor is a better suited plow for breaking in rocky ground or in new ground where roots will be dense. It rols over and slices throught the roots and rocks and wont hang up or plug like a mouldbord plow will. I Plant with dads Yanmar and covington planters But still Cultivat with the Cub. I Now mostly do all tilling with the Yanmar but still use the Cub a bit to. Mothing beat the Offsets for culivating orthe power down of the hydraulics lift. I vase a set of fender Cultivators The have a hinged metal skirt that protect the plants from being totally covered and damaged they help quite abit.

 

[Charolais]

I bought a new 140 in 1969 for $3,000 with fertilizer attachment and cultivators. I bought the tractor before I owned a car. Got tired of walking behind a mule. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif My brother bought one in 73 and that's when we sold the mules. We worked 20-23 acres of tobacco and those 140's sure made things faster and better here. We listed up beds for tobacco and drilled the fertilizer with the one I bought. Had two hoppers and put the fertilizer down in two bands. Used them both for planting with the 1 pt, hitch mechanical planter. Also had a bracket with a 55 gal drum of water for the planter. I later bought a 2 bottom plow and a 5 foot disc. Had a 4 row sprayer also.

I sold that tractor in 1983 for $2,700 and it's still running today. Engine has never been touched. It's been painted and the lift box has been rebuilt. Good solid tractor. Those engines has some of the best oil pumps ever made. It worked it's last crop of tobacco last year. The quota buy out was passed and that little 140 is resting under a shed.

Back in the late 60's and 70's we had corn and cultivated with the 140's. They make great garden tractors too. Being offset made it easy to see the crop when cultivating.