Cultivating

[J-Mech]

I hadn't really posted much about my garden this year, so I thought I'd catch up all at once.

I had this older cultivator (you be the judge what it started out as) that my dad had "reworked" for granddads 71 when he was in late Jr. High, early HS. I took it over when I was in Jr. High and redid it again. Once again for the 71. Well, I went and dug it out of the shed and again put it back into use. Don't exactly know what I'm going to do to change it, but it needs some help. Worked fine for this year anyway, so that's a good deal! Anywho.... my garden is just big enough that I'm not hoe'n it by hand so I had to use the 125 when the crop was small. Tell me what you guys think.

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Well, that brings me to today. As you would expect, the crop grew. And, the 125 could no longer go over the corn and beans. So.... granddad had a 2 row cultivator. Asked him how much, and for the price of scrap, it's mine. Now, if only the 656 I borrowed was too!! (Seriously I ought to buy it. I think it is going up for sale.) Honestly, the plan for this cultivator is to "shorten" it up a bit and put a cat 1 hitch on it instead of a cat 2 and make it fit the lo-boy. It only weighs in at 700lbs, and I think I can lift it. I just have to change the hitch on it. Winter project, as I think that this is the last of the cultivating.

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Funny the things I will do. That tractor was almost 15 miles away from my house and about 2 miles from my parents where the cultivator was in the shed. Drove the truck up, tractor and cultivator back to the shop to grease it and do some adjusting, then on south to my place. Took about 20-30 min to fine tune the cultivator, 20-30 min to do the garden...... then 15 mile trip back. It took all afternoon to do! LOL! But hey SEAT TIME!!!

Let me know if you want to see more pics of anything. Cultivators, garden.... I took more.

[Rescue11]

Hey that's cool. Is that 656 a hydro? Some were n some weren't iirc, by the looks of it that one is. You got my vote for buying it. You won't have the clearance using the low boy for row cultivating! A very formidable argument in favor of buying the 656.

The little guy on the yellow machine looks to work pretty good! With the awesome dirt y'all have up there I'm sure it pulls fairly easy?

Ever get cultivator blight in your sweet corn patch??

[Shotgun Wedding]

That is a nice garden of corn! Love the pics of the cub with the narrow ags and the cultivator. Nice job dude. I could look at pics of that all day long.

My garden is a still a bit small to use the tractor with cultivator while rows of vegz are up, I wish I could though.

[jimbob200521]

I love the look of old iron so much! Great pics, John; if you have more, keep 'em coming!

Have you thought about getting an old F-Cub? Those seem to be about perfect for a garden your size. High enough to get over the crop for a good while, plenty of attachments out there, and fairly easy to work on to boot. Just a thought, I'm sure you'll make a good decision whatever you do

[Sam Mac]

Sweet pics Big Jon!

[J-Mech]

Originally Posted by Rescue11

Hey that's cool. Is that 656 a hydro? Some were n some weren't iirc, by the looks of it that one is. You got my vote for buying it. You won't have the clearance using the low boy for row cultivating! A very formidable argument in favor of buying the 656.

The little guy on the yellow machine looks to work pretty good! With the awesome dirt y'all have up there I'm sure it pulls fairly easy?

Ever get cultivator blight in your sweet corn patch??

Thanks!

Nope, this one is a gear drive. Although a hydro would be nice also. I've been on a lot of IH hydros and they are pretty decent.

Yeah, with the LB, I won't have as much clearance, I'm not sure if I could have gotten over the corn with it.

Yes, the small cultivator pulls really easy. I only ran the 125 just above idle to pull it. I crept along really slow with the crop so small.

Do I ever get blight? Um, when it was small I took out a couple plants, (literally just a few) but it's not my first time on a cultivator..... so I'm careful.

Originally Posted by Shotgun Wedding

That is a nice garden of corn! Love the pics of the cub with the narrow ags and the cultivator. Nice job dude. I could look at pics of that all day long.

My garden is a still a bit small to use the tractor with cultivator while rows of vegz are up, I wish I could though.

Thanks!

I went to the narrow ags when I was plowing. Found they worked better with my 8" plow than the 8.50" tires. I was always fighting to be where I needed in the dead furrow. The narrows made driving easier. Kept them on for cultivating and still like them better. I like the look too, I think they'll stay!

Originally Posted by jimbob200521

I love the look of old iron so much! Great pics, John; if you have more, keep 'em coming!

Have you thought about getting an old F-Cub? Those seem to be about perfect for a garden your size. High enough to get over the crop for a good while, plenty of attachments out there, and fairly easy to work on to boot. Just a thought, I'm sure you'll make a good decision whatever you do

Thanks Ryan!
Yeah, thought about a F-Cub, but don't like the offset. Plus, the 1pt/2pt (fasthitch). I want 3pt..... and a little more HP!

Originally Posted by Sam Mac

Sweet pics Big Jon!

Thanks Sam!

[Cubcrazy]

Looking good Jonathan!

[drglinski]

Hoe<cub cadet<farmall. Bigger crops mean bigger tractors. Nice

[bocephus1991]

Cool pictures thanks for sharing. We had a 656 diesel with a loader. Their a good tractor gear shift can give you problems. We baled,ground,feed,plowed planted with it too.

[zippy1]

Looks good buddy
A job well done