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Post by johnwayne360 on Dec 17, 2011 20:08:55 GMT -5
Sitting here really doing nothing(watching the kids, letting my mind wonder) right now, trying to decide what direction my tillage should go in the future. Thinking weird out of the box thoughts. One thought that popped into my head was simply to take one of the vertical tillage conversion things and instead of doing a full width tillage simply mount them one behind the other and run down the middle of the row. Kind of like a strip till/vert till hybrid. Then simply plant between into the tilled part of the field. Would take less power, be a lot cheaper, but would there be any downside? Strip could be 10 inches wide this way, would probably put nitrogen on with planter or maybe with the tillage if i can get it figured out.
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Post by MoJeeper™ on Dec 17, 2011 21:08:05 GMT -5
I guess why not just strip till?
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Post by johnwayne360 on Dec 17, 2011 21:11:02 GMT -5
cause it would be like $600 per row this way, vs $2000 per row for strip till? im cheap.
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Post by MoJeeper™ on Dec 17, 2011 21:13:10 GMT -5
Hmmm...What are you using for 600 for the vertical tillage part?
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Post by johnwayne360 on Dec 17, 2011 21:22:16 GMT -5
yetters vta attachment goes for 300 list...i know it may not be the best, but its all i could find for prices on the net so far. so two per row, and id be all set? I really dont know, just know i dont want to shell out 20k if i dont have to..
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Post by JoshuaGA on Dec 17, 2011 21:45:14 GMT -5
JW, not to tell you your business, but I feel prettys sure a few hours in the shop and I could probably build you a strip till cheap, especially if all you needed was coulters, no deep till. I kinda think you could take a good HEAVY danish tine cultivator and strip the tines, add a way to put on some weight, probably some downpressure springs, a few coulters, and a crumbler basket and achieve about the same results. Heck the commercial ones down here are pretty much shop fabrication, even I could build you one, it just takes some tweaking to set them to your soil, and it does take some steel to keep them from bending up, but they sure aren't rocket science.
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Post by johnwayne360 on Dec 17, 2011 22:16:57 GMT -5
I am really not a genius at fabricating, but i understand where your coming from. I once had a vision of an old chisel plow and a danish tine cultivator becoming a strip till machine-but i want to do corn on corn mostly-so that requires row cleaners and such..i figure just doing in row vertical tillage may be enough.
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Post by JoshuaGA on Dec 17, 2011 22:40:05 GMT -5
I am really not a genius at fabricating, but i understand where your coming from. I once had a vision of an old chisel plow and a danish tine cultivator becoming a strip till machine-but i want to do corn on corn mostly-so that requires row cleaners and such..i figure just doing in row vertical tillage may be enough. That is the very basic description of what they are here. Ain't nothing to them, but they charge like the dickens for them if you buy one. |
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