[AT] Am I crazy?

[charlie hill]

I wish I could see a picture of a set of those cultivators set up on a 
tractor.  I've looked at those pictures over and over and just can't 
visualize how they should be set.

Daddy's lay by sweeps should be stuck in a 5 gal can full of used motor oil, 
exactly where he left them.  I don't remember seeing them recently.  Someone 
probably stole them.  Next time I'm over at the farm I'll look to see if 
they are there.

Charlie

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bob Seith" <seithr at denison.edu>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2006 8:20 AM
Subject: Re: [AT] Am I crazy?


> 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"
>><at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
>>Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2006 3:23 PM
>>Subject: [AT] Am I crazy?
>>
>>
>>: 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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