Home Forums Miscellaneous Topics Rural Living When was the last time you ran a rowcrop cultivator?

Ralfe told me to watch this row, the one on the left, that night I had trouble getting my left shoulder flat on the bed.

Unless things have changed in the last couple of years, it's still a thing down south So much is watered down the row, you could plan on plowing twice and not worry about bedding before planting.

Corn will turn purple on ground that has been flood irrigated for rice. You have to plow it to get oxygen to the roots. In small beans and sandy ground your fighting blowing sand when it gets dry so plowing is still kind of a thing even when it's not needed.

California is a different animal. It's still chisel plows and offset disc's before planting and D8 to D10's with rippers when replanting an orchard.

Probably mid 80s. We had an Allis rotary cultivator, not a rotary hoe. Last few years we used it in the garden building hills for potatoes. Crank those gangs around and tilt them, kick up some speed and that thing would make hills a foot high and a foot wide with one pass in disced ground.

Late 70's in our 1 acre "garden" on a 240 Farmall (aka International Harvester later on), similar to this one.

We had a John Deere A with a front mounted two row cultivator. First gear in rocky ground so as not to cover the corn and second gear for the fields less rocky.