[AT] Am I crazy?

[Greg Hass]

Larry:
You are correct.  These "shovels" replaced the right and left single-wing 
style of teeth on the cultivator.  What made them so good was that the 
front blade cleaned the junk away from the row and leveled it, allowing the 
second blade to move a precise amount of soil and evenly shove a precise 
amount of it up against the plant and under the leaves, covering most of 
the weeds.  For years we used a 2-row cultivator on a Super-C and used 
shields.  The problem with them was that sometimes they would have room 
underneath and still cover the crop, or sometimes the shield would be 
running on a ridge of dirt left by the harrow and no dirt would be thrown 
to cover the weeds.  Another problem was the shields would always plug with 
either a corn root or a piece of sod and drag, so the last few years my dad 
had a piece of wood 1-1/2" x 1-1/2" and approximately 7-ft. long attached 
to each shield and then going up and resting on the pipe the headlights 
fastened to.  This way, when a shield plugged, you could grab the stick and 
and shake whichever shield was giving the problem to clear it out without 
having to stop.  Unfortunately, the set of weed controllers on my Cub 
doesn't work as well as I'd like to see them work.  This is simply because 
by just doing my garden they never get that nice, shiny finish to allow the 
dirt to slide like it should.

Greg Hass
 From the tip of Michigan's Thumb