help me please on planting

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   Can someone please tell me what I have, how to use and for what.
Mainly I need to know if I have what I need to make my garden rows now. 

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dad2many Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Silver Level Joined: 19 Jun 2011 Location: NC Points: 104	Post Options Post Reply Quote dad2many Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: help me please on planting Posted: 21 Apr 2012 at 12:03pm
	Can someone please tell me what I have, how to use and for what. Mainly I need to know if I have what I need to make my garden rows now.

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dad2many Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Silver Level Joined: 19 Jun 2011 Location: NC Points: 104	Post Options Post Reply Quote dad2many Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 21 Apr 2012 at 12:17pm


Chalmersbob Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Orange Level Joined: 11 Sep 2009 Location: Pennsylvania Points: 2122	Post Options Post Reply Quote Chalmersbob Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 21 Apr 2012 at 10:32pm
	looks like you have a CA tractor with cultivators on the front. You also have the rear cultivators laying upside down. They have 3 teeth on them. You also have a pin hitch 2 bottom plow and a drawbar for your CA. The pin hitch drawbar slides into the lift arms and the attached brackets keep it rigid. Best you get a manual for your tractor to better understand how these items get mounted and adjusted during use. Bob

Tracy Martin TN Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Orange Level Access Joined: 11 Sep 2009 Location: Gallatin,TN Points: 10756	Post Options Post Reply Quote Tracy Martin TN Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 21 Apr 2012 at 11:49pm
	You can lay off your garden rows with the rear tool bar on your CA. You need to determine your row spacing. I like 42 inch rows in my garden. The sweeps that are on your feet will make a row, but not my first choice. I would use a bull tongue shovel or wider point to make my rows. Set your rear cultivator feet spaced according to row width. Center of tractor is center of cultivator, space the outer two according to row spacing,42 inchs for each side would be my setting. You can lay off rows by driving with your outer shank running in the previous outer row. This means after the first pass of three rows, it would be making two rows there after using one as a guide. You can raise the fronts up with the gang lifters and hold them up and out of your way. HTH Tracy Martin
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Chalmersbob Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Orange Level Joined: 11 Sep 2009 Location: Pennsylvania Points: 2122	Post Options Post Reply Quote Chalmersbob Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 22 Apr 2012 at 10:08pm
	it looks like you have a "field culitvator", one with the coil on the bars, and a rear culitvator bar with just 3 teeth on it. This is what Tracy is refering to be used as a row marker. If you have any extra teeth, you might have 2 that are the size of your hand, bent into a slight v. These will work great to mark rows. As Tracy said, 42" spacing is good. Once you make 3 rows as Tracy instructed, you will be able to use you wheel tread marks as a width gauge to make the rest of the rows. I use 48" rows for potatoes and tomatoes, placing the tomato plants 6' apart in the rows if you want to let them spread as we always did when I raised acres of them. If you don't have any of the larger teeth, you might bend a piece of sheet metal around on of you wide sweeps to make a row. Bob Edited by Chalmersbob - 22 Apr 2012 at 10:10pm