Late Garden
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Topic: Late Garden
Posted By: Ranse
Subject: Late Garden
Date Posted: 20 May 2018 at 1:41pm
I'm running behind on everything this year. I finally worked the garden up a few days ago. I used the old White to bust it up, and the D10 to smooth it out. It was a lot of fun playing in the dirt!     
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Posted By: Hubert (Ga)engine7
Date Posted: 20 May 2018 at 7:22pm
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Got mine broke up but it is too wet to get in there and plant anything. Rain every day for over a week, some downpours, some drizzle, just enough sunshine Friday that I could finish mowing the lawn. Got about a day of bush hogging at a church camp near the farm if it will dry up for a few days but it is supposed to be like this for the rest of this week. Not complaining though, the Good Lord knows we need the moisture. This weather is almost like the dog days of July and August. ------------- Just an old country boy saved by the grace of God. |
Posted By: CTuckerNWIL
Date Posted: 20 May 2018 at 7:47pm
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I think I need one of those 3 point roto tillers. I got the plow out long time back and plowed a couple food plots in the deer hunting pasture, plowed my garden and the daughters garden. Then disced them all with the old junk 3 point disc. It was almost too wet when I plowed, but breaking it up right away seem to help keep down on big clods. I have green beans up, second planting started up but moles musta ate half the seed. It's been dry mostly for a while so yesterday , with the threat of rain, I got some beans buried to fill in the gaps in half the late crop. I put carrots and cucumbers seeds in, but only seen one cuc up so far. Tomato plants are alive, but not too far along. I killed off all my seed start broccoli and most of my maters by setting them out in full sun too long the first time. Lesson learned I guess. I do have 2 of the heirloom Brandywine mater plants, and the neighbor gave me an heirloom black tomato plant. I filled the west half of my garden patch with "Indian" corn and sunflowers. They have come up pretty sparsely too . I also no tilled sunflowers on the edge of my CRP patch with the 2 row 7000 but haven't seen emergence yet. I also have two potato plants as an experiment. One in a bale of straw and one in the dirt next to it. Both in the wifes "flower" garden-weed patch. I have burned it off with my new propane torch once, but need to do it again to get more of the weeds under control. WOW, just thinkin about all this made me tired  ------------- http://www.ae-ta.com" rel="nofollow - http://www.ae-ta.com Lena 1935 WC12xxx, Willie 1951 CA6xx Dad bought new, 1954WD45 PS, 1960 D17 NF |
Posted By: Ranse
Date Posted: 20 May 2018 at 7:48pm
| I know what you mean Hubert. I feel like I've wasted this whole weekend. Great weather except for the brief showers that pop up everyday. I haven't planted either. I need to start cutting hay, but the forecast calls for the same thing for the next few days. I'm at my wits end. |
Posted By: jaybmiller
Date Posted: 20 May 2018 at 7:56pm
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5' rototiller is the ONLY way to go ! Just wish I had more land to play in.....10 passes and I'm done for the year, sigh... Friend broke his 6 footer the other day...tilled up an 18" boulder !! it tore off one of the pins attaching tiller to the lower 3pt arm ------------- 3 D-14s,A-C forklift, B-112 Kubota BX23S lil' TOOT( The Other Orange Tractor) Never burn your bridges, unless you can walk on water |
Posted By: Tracy Martin TN
Date Posted: 20 May 2018 at 8:05pm
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This is the latest I have ever planted my early garden. Been wet forever here. Finally got some of it planted, it is coming up. Birds pulling up the corn. Rained a flood tonight, probably washed most of it away. Been a hard year at the farm! Tracy ------------- No greater gift than healthy grandkids! |
Posted By: CTuckerNWIL
Date Posted: 20 May 2018 at 8:16pm
I'm thinking 6 foot for me. i have a Massey 230 with the 3-152 Perkins and it has a SUPER slow low gear. It also has the wheels set on 60 inch centers, so it would be nice to be able to cover the wheel tracks. ------------- http://www.ae-ta.com" rel="nofollow - http://www.ae-ta.com Lena 1935 WC12xxx, Willie 1951 CA6xx Dad bought new, 1954WD45 PS, 1960 D17 NF |
jaybmiller wrote:Posted By: Ranse
Date Posted: 20 May 2018 at 9:11pm
That is just a cheap TSC tiller, but it does a great job, and I've had it 12 years and never turned a screw on it. I use that same tiller on that White sometimes. It does good behind it too, but it doesn't completely cover the wheel tracks. I rarely use a disc. If that tiller broke down tomorrow, I would just have to go get another one, because I can't do without it |
Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 20 May 2018 at 11:46pm
| makes a nice seedbed! |
Posted By: Gary Burnett
Date Posted: 21 May 2018 at 6:24am
Looks like a King Kutter tiller one of the best you can buy in my opinion unless you go to something like a Howard Rotovator.Think TSC is selling another brand these days.
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Posted By: Gary Burnett
Date Posted: 21 May 2018 at 6:26am
| What Model White is that? |
Posted By: john(MI)
Date Posted: 21 May 2018 at 11:00am
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II have a Case 16hp Hi Drive. it fills a 4' swath. The tiller is hydraulically driven. I don't use it any more. But it did s great job all the years I used it. ------------- D14, D17, 5020, 612H, CASE 446 |
Posted By: Ranse
Date Posted: 21 May 2018 at 9:26pm
It is a 2-60 Field Boss. 1978 model. It has a 60hp Fiat engine. It's similar to an Allis Chalmers 5050, same sheet metal, similar fiat engine. The Allis had a three cylinder engine, the White has a four. There is several of these Fiat tractors as I call them, there's a Long, Hesston, even Oliver, maybe others. My Father bought that tractor new. I remember driving it around the dealer lot with him when I was a kid. A few years later I was in a wreck on that tractor. A guy hit me in the back end. It totaled the truck, only damage to the tractor was it knocked the back tire off the rim and bent the rim. I think I was twelve at the time, it was my first accident. That tractor also has a White loader on it. I also have the grill. Its made out of plastic and broke up a little. I keep it off so I don't damage it more. I plan to fix it with fiber glass, just one of the things on the to do list. |
Posted By: Hubert (Ga)engine7
Date Posted: 25 May 2018 at 8:43pm
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Checked on the garden and it is nothing but a mud hole. Maybe I can get a late garden in if it ever dries up. ------------- Just an old country boy saved by the grace of God. |
Posted By: Ranse
Date Posted: 25 May 2018 at 9:07pm
| Mine grew up in grass again. I had to re-till it. I've got seed in the ground now, and about 10 tomato plants. It could use a good rain now. I planted mostly seed I had on hand. I'm not sure how old they were, I hope everything comes up. Good luck on your garden Hubert. |
Posted By: JohnCO
Date Posted: 25 May 2018 at 11:55pm
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I plowed a field to plant to alfalfa early in the month but it's been too wet to get it level enough to plant. Started over it today with a danish tine cultivator, hope to dry it enough to level this weekend, may get some rain on Monday or Tuesday. A neighbor of mine bought an Ag King 4000 this spring, looks just like my cousin's Oliver 1265. The castings are all Spanish language, supposedly made in Argentina. ------------- "If at first you don't succeed, get a bigger hammer" Allis Express participant |