We had a 6 row front mount cultivator. Mounted to a 1949 Madel A John Deere. My Grandpas pride and joy. His first tractor he ever bought brand new. Had until the day they sold the farm in 2004. So old school is the best!!
during the 60's thru the 80's when i was helping my Dad farm, he never used herbicides for his corn and he used very old equipment left over from his father and planted with an old 2 row corn planter and a cultivator actually attached to the sides and back of the tractor, but after cultivating he used his 5 boys, including me, to walk the rows and hoe out the weeds close to the corn that was missed by the cultivator, and his also used this process on soybeans. However, your cultivator is a lot newer that my Dad's. Of course, my Dad grew up farming with horses with his Dad, until he got married and then he and his Dad started to use tractors. The old ways may have been harder and took a lot longer, but they still got the job done. Sometime i miss the old ways, for you were closer to the earth, but now, most farmers are riding in a heated and air conditioned tractor cab, operating huge machines that can till a 40 acre field in a couple hours or less, depending on the width of the tilling implement, whereas farming the old way may take several days to complete 40 acres, and even longer if you needed to use more than one type of implement. Do not get me started on comparing baling square bales with hay wagons pulled behind the hay baler and a big crew to load and unload the square bales into the barn and barn loft, to baling the big round or big square bales today. Baling small square hay bales for all of my neighbors during schools summer vacation was my biggest job during high school in the early 70's. I still baled small square bales after i was married, and my wife was my tractor/baler operator, and i handled all of the square bales myself, for awhile anyway, until i was no longer able to do it. Now, i just hire custom big round hay baling for my few remaining cattle, but someday that too will probably come to an end, just like everything else. One can only hope that something better will always come along to take it's place. Just my opinion
Remembered another subject. Second time you cultivate, run as shallow as you can to knock down the weed pressure. If you go any deeper, you are just bringing up more weed seed to germinate. I never thought that mattered until another farmer show me the difference from his cultivation depth verses mine. Just a half inch made a big difference on what reappeared.
Thank you for all the work in general you do , but a huge thank you for a the work with the video’s. Fav part of my day to sit back and really enjoy the video’s!!! Please keep them coming.
What do you mean you cant dig deeper than 12” in the field? I find it interesting from region to region across the United States how much differently things are done to grow the same crops! Just so many variables like soil types, rain received, soil PH, growing seasons, local ag laws. I grow 5-10 acres of corn/field sunflowers every other year for the Idaho Fish and Game for deer, pheasants, moose and elk to forage during our long cold winters. We have such a short growing season at 4500ft above seal level not much grain corn is grown here. A few people grow silage corn. This is potato, wheat, barley and alfalfa country! That being said it’s hard to find any old corn planters or implements for hobby farmers/food plotters like myself! Great Videos Pardner! 👍🏼👍🏼 Nice to see the small guy farming using old implements! No GPS or 40 row planters here just determination and ingenuity! RESPECT!
You are a very hard-working and deserving man, you work with what you have, and in my opinion, are doing a great job !!!! you're doing it old school, lots of respect. Felix from New Mexico
I love your videos man keep up the amazing work good video quality good angles you always show the action lol watched every one of your videos since I found you I hope your views sky rocket up 🆙 you deserve it
Congratulations on the 40,000 Subs! Keep up the great video's and this channel will grow. You seem to always find something positive even on a rough day, the sunset, the growing corn ect.
Great video you done well with with those big tyres and bendy rows ,when we used to cultivate potatoes to clean out weeds, we used a small tractor and cultivator in 26 or 28ins rows good job all the same . look forward to watching your channel every night good luck regards from N Ireland . ps don't let the problems grind you down .
You're doing great with your first time cultivating, I would do a little more adjusting but it looks great. Now you can understand why old row crop tractors had narrow tires. With the issues with skips and your comments about having that 7000 planter "forever", it probably time to rebuild the metering units and replace all drive chains and possibly sprockets.
I've seen alot of farmers in IL. using those magnetic emergency LED puck lights on the ends of their over size equipment exactly like the ones emergency responders use like tow companies use. Drivers really see them right away.
Good video be thankful for a cab tractor. I used to run old farmalls on a sweet corn farm with just an umbrella to keep the sun off you. It was kind of a miserable dusty dirty job but there's something about that fresh turned dirt smell and the humidity of summer in ct River Valley it was actually a kinda fun job atleast for a teenager that loved to drive tractors. It would be fun now to give it a try again, although I think most sweet corn out in the river valley is grown in plastic with floating row covers.
Also, we use to mount a vertical rod on the front axel or from the frame. We used it as a pointer to exactly where we needed the corn row needed to pass under. It would be run about six inches above the dead center of the corn row. It was much easier to steer accurately and with less operator fatigue.. extra benefit, it really helped with steering through thin or drought out spots.
I cultivated a lot of corn and beans over the years and have found that 99% of the time you get better yields on crops that are cultivated. Everyone used to cultivate because we didnt have chemical to sprays, But as the sprays got better guys stopped cultivating but now I'm starting to see more guys doing it again so your in good company ! Bandit
One thing you may want to consider doing, that most guys did around here when cultivating. Mount something on either the front axle, or off the frame rail, usually on the left side, that when you're looks to be directly over the 1row to the left of the center of the planter pass. I got to do a decent amount of cultivating, before RR beans (and then corn) came out, and cultivating largely went away. We also went to 15' soybeans, so that helped with weed control as well by shading more of the ground. Spending hours leaned over in the seat, trying to prevent "cultivator blight/ iron disease," was what I considered fun, but was necessary.
I put a round of black electric tape around the axle on each side . Last cultivator I used was a 12 - 30 inch rows. We had duels on that straddled a row ..
Duffy - 50 days straight of uploads has been awesome following along. I am happy to see you've gained about 8k subs since I started watching at the start of the marathon. Awesome to know you're seeing some $ for entertaining/teaching us. Hoping JD/Case offer some demo hours!
As you show us video after video. There is no quitting in Duffy. Ask seek n knock and the door will open. Keep pushing forward. The Good Lord will bless you.
Really like your camera work from the various angles in this video. Gives a good view of the operation 👍. Your explanation of the operation is also very good makes your videos very watchable 👍
It looks great. Have you priced out the cost of herbicides, compared to the cost of fuel to cultivate? Many farmers don't break from herbicide usage because they think it's cheaper, but cover crops and mechanical cultivation is often cheaper and your soil is left in better shape.
Hey Chris, I was thinking a set of amber/red magnetic mount trailer lights would help on the cultivator outriggers when having to deal with oncoming traffic. They could be pigtailed in to work with the tractor flashers. Easy on, easy off.
Your video brought back memories of 1975 when I learned how to set a cultivator. Friendly suggestion. When you swing or turn the front of the tractor to the left, the rear of the cultivator (the shovels) will move almost the same distance to the right. the pivot point is the middle of the back tractor tires. So on corners, cheat your back tires to the side you are turning. Meaning if you are driving to the left, drive a little farther to the left of your mark. That will keep the cultivator in away from the corn. Also, our cultivator use two large straight discs which mounted on the front of the bar and outside the back tires of the tractor. They ran right in the middle of the last fully worked row on the outside rows. Their job was to help the bar to resist swinging side or swing too quickly. This helped with the tracking on curves and made for laser straight tracking on straight runs. Finally, just slow down on the curves as you have alot going on as you try to get most of the row worked up.
I would ditch that tractor and use the 4230. I cultivated hundreds of acres of corn peanuts and cotton with an open station 4230 and a cloth canopy top. One of the best cultivation tractors beside a 4020 I ever ran. You can get the rears in further but you will have to move the rim to the inside of the dish. I think it will work on those newer tractors but not sure. Your operators manual should tell you.
I’d ask Frank if you could cut the tubes off. Or offer to buy it. Like you said, They’re cheap. I am farming organic, so I well know the joy of cultivating. Biggest thing I figured out with not using chemicals is to plant much later. That corn needs to grow as fast as possible to get to canopy. Corn doesn’t grow fast in cold soil.
were i farm we have a lot of organic farmers that work the ground several times in a 2 week time period then plant,rotory hoe twice then cultivate twice and a few have weed flamers that use propane fuel on cultivator bars that is neat watch at night.
Nice job with the cultivator, there are some attachments that will help you do an even better job, cultivating is one thing I've never done....RR crops kinda ruined that lost art!
So you want him to run out and buy a 3020 for just a couple hour job? Where do you muppets come up with these ignorant comments? Do you lay awake at night thinking of them?
Hi do you plant some pear trees and apple trees peach trees yeah call department of agriculture maybe you can have you a winery may cause about $500 good luck
We had a 6 row front mount cultivator. Mounted to a 1949 Madel A John Deere. My Grandpas pride and joy. His first tractor he ever bought brand new. Had until the day they sold the farm in 2004. So old school is the best!!
I love how the field looks after this is done
during the 60's thru the 80's when i was helping my Dad farm, he never used herbicides for his corn and he used very old equipment left over from his father and planted with an old 2 row corn planter and a cultivator actually attached to the sides and back of the tractor, but after cultivating he used his 5 boys, including me, to walk the rows and hoe out the weeds close to the corn that was missed by the cultivator, and his also used this process on soybeans. However, your cultivator is a lot newer that my Dad's. Of course, my Dad grew up farming with horses with his Dad, until he got married and then he and his Dad started to use tractors. The old ways may have been harder and took a lot longer, but they still got the job done. Sometime i miss the old ways, for you were closer to the earth, but now, most farmers are riding in a heated and air conditioned tractor cab, operating huge machines that can till a 40 acre field in a couple hours or less, depending on the width of the tilling implement, whereas farming the old way may take several days to complete 40 acres, and even longer if you needed to use more than one type of implement. Do not get me started on comparing baling square bales with hay wagons pulled behind the hay baler and a big crew to load and unload the square bales into the barn and barn loft, to baling the big round or big square bales today. Baling small square hay bales for all of my neighbors during schools summer vacation was my biggest job during high school in the early 70's. I still baled small square bales after i was married, and my wife was my tractor/baler operator, and i handled all of the square bales myself, for awhile anyway, until i was no longer able to do it. Now, i just hire custom big round hay baling for my few remaining cattle, but someday that too will probably come to an end, just like everything else. One can only hope that something better will always come along to take it's place. Just my opinion
Remembered another subject. Second time you cultivate, run as shallow as you can to knock down the weed pressure. If you go any deeper, you are just bringing up more weed seed to germinate. I never thought that mattered until another farmer show me the difference from his cultivation depth verses mine. Just a half inch made a big difference on what reappeared.
It certainly will all work out. Keep working hard
Thank you for all the work in general you do , but a huge thank you for a the work with the video’s. Fav part of my day to sit back and really enjoy the video’s!!! Please keep them coming.
What do you mean you cant dig deeper than 12” in the field? I find it interesting from region to region across the United States how much differently things are done to grow the same crops! Just so many variables like soil types, rain received, soil PH, growing seasons, local ag laws. I grow 5-10 acres of corn/field sunflowers every other year for the Idaho Fish and Game for deer, pheasants, moose and elk to forage during our long cold winters. We have such a short growing season at 4500ft above seal level not much grain corn is grown here. A few people grow silage corn. This is potato, wheat, barley and alfalfa country! That being said it’s hard to find any old corn planters or implements for hobby farmers/food plotters like myself! Great Videos Pardner! 👍🏼👍🏼 Nice to see the small guy farming using old implements! No GPS or 40 row planters here just determination and ingenuity! RESPECT!
Nice tidy job, and always interesting to see people trying new things.
Congratulations
Awesome 😎. This is cool. I like old school.it does require active facing. Must pay attention.
You are a very hard-working and deserving man, you work with what you have, and in my opinion, are doing a great job !!!! you're doing it old school, lots of respect. Felix from New Mexico
I had a 4 row cultavator with rolling fenders . Those rolling fenders made all the difference in the world.
See how it goes have a good day.
I love your videos man keep up the amazing work good video quality good angles you always show the action lol watched every one of your videos since I found you I hope your views sky rocket up 🆙 you deserve it
Congratulations on the 40,000 Subs! Keep up the great video's and this channel will grow. You seem to always find something positive even on a rough day, the sunset, the growing corn ect.
Great video you done well with with those big tyres and bendy rows ,when we used to cultivate potatoes to clean out weeds, we used a small tractor and cultivator in 26 or 28ins rows good job all the same . look forward to watching your channel every night good luck regards from N Ireland . ps don't let the problems grind you down .
👍🚜thanks 👌looks awesome 👋
Thank you for your videos. They are entertaining and informative. Great to see a real farmer at work.
You're doing great with your first time cultivating, I would do a little more adjusting but it looks great. Now you can understand why old row crop tractors had narrow tires. With the issues with skips and your comments about having that 7000 planter "forever", it probably time to rebuild the metering units and replace all drive chains and possibly sprockets.
I've seen alot of farmers in IL. using those magnetic emergency LED puck lights on the ends of their over size equipment exactly like the ones emergency responders use like tow companies use. Drivers really see them right away.
I would also put the red and white reflective Conspicuity tape on all the wide points so it's easy to see in the dark.
Good camera angles
Good video be thankful for a cab tractor. I used to run old farmalls on a sweet corn farm with just an umbrella to keep the sun off you. It was kind of a miserable dusty dirty job but there's something about that fresh turned dirt smell and the humidity of summer in ct River Valley it was actually a kinda fun job atleast for a teenager that loved to drive tractors. It would be fun now to give it a try again, although I think most sweet corn out in the river valley is grown in plastic with floating row covers.
Good corn, good dog, good video and great to see young man working hard. 👏👏👏👏
Also, we use to mount a vertical rod on the front axel or from the frame. We used it as a pointer to exactly where we needed the corn row needed to pass under. It would be run about six inches above the dead center of the corn row. It was much easier to steer accurately and with less operator fatigue.. extra benefit, it really helped with steering through thin or drought out spots.
I cultivated a lot of corn and beans over the years and have found that 99% of the time you get better yields on crops that are cultivated. Everyone used to cultivate because we didnt have chemical to sprays, But as the sprays got better guys stopped cultivating but now I'm starting to see more guys doing it again so your in good company ! Bandit
Live and learn AWESOME!
One thing you may want to consider doing, that most guys did around here when cultivating. Mount something on either the front axle, or off the frame rail, usually on the left side, that when you're looks to be directly over the 1row to the left of the center of the planter pass.
I got to do a decent amount of cultivating, before RR beans (and then corn) came out, and cultivating largely went away. We also went to 15' soybeans, so that helped with weed control as well by shading more of the ground. Spending hours leaned over in the seat, trying to prevent "cultivator blight/ iron disease," was what I considered fun, but was necessary.
We had such a marker on either side of the tractor. That way the operator could switch sides so his back didn't get so sore.
I put a round of black electric tape around the axle on each side . Last cultivator I used was a 12 - 30 inch rows. We had duels on that straddled a row ..
Love your videos its nice here in the UK to see how you farm there very similar I must say
Duffy - 50 days straight of uploads has been awesome following along. I am happy to see you've gained about 8k subs since I started watching at the start of the marathon. Awesome to know you're seeing some $ for entertaining/teaching us. Hoping JD/Case offer some demo hours!
It would be nice to get some demo's. Then he doesn't have to repair them
Congrats on 40k
As you show us video after video. There is no quitting in Duffy. Ask seek n knock and the door will open. Keep pushing forward. The Good Lord will bless you.
Excellent thank you
Really like your camera work from the various angles in this video. Gives a good view of the operation 👍. Your explanation of the operation is also very good makes your videos very watchable 👍
Great video, I’m anxious to see if the cultivated field does better then the fields that were sprayed
Sure it’ll work. That’s real farming
It looks great. Have you priced out the cost of herbicides, compared to the cost of fuel to cultivate? Many farmers don't break from herbicide usage because they think it's cheaper, but cover crops and mechanical cultivation is often cheaper and your soil is left in better shape.
You can put clamp on duals on that tractor to get your 30 inch spacing
Hey Chris, I was thinking a set of amber/red magnetic mount trailer lights would help on the cultivator outriggers when having to deal with oncoming traffic. They could be pigtailed in to work with the tractor flashers. Easy on, easy off.
Thanks good video 👍
Your corn looks really good
Your doing awesome bud. Corn looks killer. That cultivator works nice!!!As always WORK SAFE 😎😎🇺🇸🇺🇸
Great video as always!
Your video brought back memories of 1975 when I learned how to set a cultivator. Friendly suggestion. When you swing or turn the front of the tractor to the left, the rear of the cultivator (the shovels) will move almost the same distance to the right. the pivot point is the middle of the back tractor tires.
So on corners, cheat your back tires to the side you are turning. Meaning if you are driving to the left, drive a little farther to the left of your mark. That will keep the cultivator in away from the corn.
Also, our cultivator use two large straight discs which mounted on the front of the bar and outside the back tires of the tractor. They ran right in the middle of the last fully worked row on the outside rows. Their job was to help the bar to resist swinging side or swing too quickly. This helped with the tracking on curves and made for laser straight tracking on straight runs. Finally, just slow down on the curves as you have alot going on as you try to get most of the row worked up.
When I was a kid we cultivated into the end of July at least three times. Sure is cheaper than chemicals.
Not sure it’s cheaper .
😂No it’s definitely not cheaper than chemicals. 🤦♂️
@@gregjames5070 cost per acre it definitely worth spraying. New generation of herbicides are very safe and work well
I would ditch that tractor and use the 4230. I cultivated hundreds of acres of corn peanuts and cotton with an open station 4230 and a cloth canopy top. One of the best cultivation tractors beside a 4020 I ever ran. You can get the rears in further but you will have to move the rim to the inside of the dish. I think it will work on those newer tractors but not sure. Your operators manual should tell you.
Looking good Grease. I'd put the end chisels back on. Hey the cleanest I've seen you in a long time. You make me proud 😂😂
Come down to Ky I got a couple old cultivators you can have
Duffy your doing a dang good job on the videos
That worked good!
Love the content
I had a corn stalk poke through a brand new bf Goodrich all terrain tire straight into the tread made it back to the barn just in time
We use snap on duals they work great we have really rough ,steep and rocky ground and we use duals to keep from flipping and or sinking
Another good one bud! keep swinging champ you’re doing great🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Congrats on the 40 grand
Might want to look for some rolling shields to protect the small corn from thrown dirt
👍👍👍
I have cultivated corn with an old 44 Special Massey Harris.
We had a 4row front mounted cultivated on a 2510 tricycle with power shift
That would be a really good all around tractor, tricycle front emd
We have a tractor that has short axles and we put hubs on and bought 5 inch spacer that bolts on hub and duals bolt to spacer.
That old planter does a pretty good job.
That air jack is some job handy an safe
Rolling fenders on them cultivators
Just wondering if you can adjust the planter to give yourself more room for the tires
I’d ask Frank if you could cut the tubes off. Or offer to buy it. Like you said, They’re cheap. I am farming organic, so I well know the joy of cultivating. Biggest thing I figured out with not using chemicals is to plant much later. That corn needs to grow as fast as possible to get to canopy. Corn doesn’t grow fast in cold soil.
were i farm we have a lot of organic farmers that work the ground several times in a 2 week time period then plant,rotory hoe twice then cultivate twice and a few have weed flamers that use propane fuel on cultivator bars that is neat watch at night.
You could put duals on it you would have to bolt a spacer to the axle hub for the dual wheel, the axle is plenty long enough to mount the dual hub
Nice job with the cultivator, there are some attachments that will help you do an even better job, cultivating is one thing I've never done....RR crops kinda ruined that lost art!
You’re so busy with field work, when do you do your “real” job? Love your channel.
He just went back to his real job on Tuesday. Takes time off for planting/harvesting n first cut of grass.
I think he mentioned doing something with robots in the last video
@@Ben-fk9ey he does maintenance on delavel milking robots
Robots only break at night
You are doing great as a first time and free hand steering. Don’t see to much cultivator blight.
Definitely gotta stay awake... great job ... Get that nut sedge...
Why not get a single or double row planter for spot planting. Use it on a ATV.
You can hear corn grow when a danish tine cultivator is in the field
If not I'm sure that you'll fab/mod it to work!!
How many steps do you have on your phone? My dairyman has over 17K every day from irrigating.
Tie a ribbon around a stalk and measure it once a week so we can see the progress of it's growth.
I have cultivated many acres of tobacco with a farm all cub one row at a time.
With your skills, you where made to be a farmer
Really need to get a upgraded planter to save time. But for its age the old one does well
How many acres are you doing this to
You need to put some rolling fenders on that cultivators that small corn
Way more cultivators than people who use them anymore that's why you can buy them for scrap metal prices organic guys do use them
clamp on duals if you need them
Are you in the United States?
What's with all the gas cans on the trailer
Plow the end rows first. The corn will stand up better. Have a good day.
U need a rolling cultivator google it. Liliston made some good ones it would wrk well for u
what are you doing about the CLUTCH on the 7320...it looks like the 7320 is starting to look like it's get a few cobwebs on it... ha ha...
for people who dont know, weeds take water and nutrients from the corn, so getting rid of them helps the corn grow to it full potential
It’s a johndeere rims themselves are configurable put the outside rim inside the hub will gain an inch
The sunnier and hotter the day the better then the seedlings will then shrivel up and die.
If ur cultivating corn take an old corn planter fertilzer off and put it on it corn cultivator and side dress
Ninja sticks and frustration. Maybe the geese are retaliating for Yanko running them off.
Who are the thumbsdown people? I struggle to understand why they'd do that.
Probably people that hate to cultivate, and would rather pour the chemicals on!!
Probably are the previous tenant of his new corn field, and the person who emailed him about spreading manure and how it ruins their weekends.
That tractor seems like over kill
Need to cultivate about 3 times, last 2 a lot faster if u know how to drive, 3020 would be much better for this job
So you want him to run out and buy a 3020 for just a couple hour job? Where do you muppets come up with these ignorant comments? Do you lay awake at night thinking of them?
@@gregjames5070 he has a 3020 that needs an engine I think
What is needed is more time to repair & probably more money from the farm for parts
Hi do you plant some pear trees and apple trees peach trees yeah call department of agriculture maybe you can have you a winery may cause about $500 good luck
I haven't seen this since I was a kid. BTW: I'm almost 60.
I can’t believe you don’t have a tile plow they only cost a pile of money
I moved it in 2", that's all that I can go ! 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂😆😆 THAT'S WHAT SHE SAID !!!!