[AT] Am I crazy?

[Bob Seith]

Gene --

Glad to learn I am NOT crazy. At least not entirely. Yes, cultivators of 
this type work better in light soils than in clay. Our place in Lake 
County was light sandy loam. The cultivators acquired a mirror finish 
over time.

Somebody mentioned using cultivators like this for hilling potatoes. 
That's about the only thing we did NOT use them for. They're not big 
enough. They don't move enough soil. But for cultivating acres and acres 
of bush beans, young peppers and tomatoes, and even a few hundred 
thousand sweet onion plants, they were hard to beat. I spent a large 
part of my adolescence staring down at these things from the operator's 
platform of a Farmall A. At least ours had the pneumatic lift.

Bob Seith
1953 Farmall Cub

Gene Dotson wrote:

>    Bob;
>    There may be other manufacturers, but the ones we had on out
>Farmalls were Russell Weed Controller. They worked well in the
>mellow soil in Hardin County, but when we moved to the hard clay
>in Union County, they just wouldn't cut through the hard crust.
>
>                    Gene
>
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Bob Seith" <seithr at denison.edu>
>To: "Antique tractor email discussion group"
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>Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2006 3:23 PM
>Subject: [AT] Am I crazy?
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>
>: Hi --
>:
>: I SWEAR that, when I was a kid at home, we had several sets of
>the
>: cultivators shown on this ebay auction:
>:
>:
>http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=7592485218&rd
>=1&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWA%3AIT&rd=1
>:
>: They were very efficient in cultivating truck crops.
>:
>: But I'm practically 100% sure the name cast on the frame was
>: "Weed-Controller," not  "Culti-Cover."
>:
>: Have I lost my memory? Has anybody used these things?
>:
>: I want these for my Cub. Please don't bid against me.
>:
>: (You will notice that one shank is shorter than the other. It
>was
>: necessary to shorten the left unit when the cultivators were
>used on a
>: Cub or an A-style Farmall. Otherwise it hit the crankcase.)
>:
>: Best,
>: Bob Seith
>: 1953 Farmall Cub
>:
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