[AT] Mounted Cultivator discussion - was RE: JD CCA cultivator info

[john hall]

Location will dictate the norm for your area, obviously. I'm in central N.C. 
and the main brand for cultivating was IH. It was chosen because of their 
offset series making it easy to see what you were doing. I know some might 
argue you can see on an Allis G, but those tractors were too small to do 
anything else in a tobacco field. Once 3pt 2 row Lilliston cultivators 
started getting popular, mid sized John Deere tractors gained popularity and 
the offset IH tractors began to do a lot less cultivating. It's noteworthy 
that Cubs were a rarity in the field--just too small. But there were plenty 
sold to gardeners.

The only other crop cultivated around here was corn. Farmers stayed brand 
loyal and used a lot of Farmall H and M tractors for that. There were some B 
and C tractors, but they were too small for big field jobs and weren't 
one-row so they were worthless in tobacco past mid-June. Later 3 pt 4 row 
cultivators became popular. Ours was the only thing here made by 
Massey-Ferguson. Finally herbicides put all the corn cultivators in the 
fence row.

John Hall

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Grant Brians" <sales at heirloom-organic.com>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Friday, September 10, 2010 9:25 PM
Subject: [AT] Mounted Cultivator discussion - was RE: JD CCA cultivator info


> Well, I am not in the Midwest and have no John Deere antique tractors, so 
> I
> am not a candidate for trying to take advantage of Joe's kind offer. BUT,
> and this is a really big BUT, I have a very strong interest in cultivating
> arrangements as we use them for growing all of our vegetables! So, perhaps
> this is a key to start a discussion of cultivating tools and practices?
>     By the way, both the Farmall 240 that I got about a month ago and the
> late (crossbars type) grill Oliver 770 that I just got Wednesday Night 
> have
> front mount belly type cultivators mounted that we will be using a lot. 
> The
> 770 I finished loading at about 9PM and then did a 2 hour drive back to 
> the
> ranch, followed by unloading it the the next morning (yesterday.) At the
> moment those multiple nights with less than 3.5 hours of sleep are 
> catching
> up with me. I think the cultivator on the Oliver 770 is a local Salinas
> Valley shop built unit, but I think the Farmall 240 cultivator may be a
> factory unit. I wonder how I can tell? I'll try to contribute more on this
> discussion soon, I need to get an electrical unit installed now.
>           Grant
>