Wheres the best affordable place to buy fc sweeps?

[Rich©]

I've got a 42' field cultivator that I need to replace the sweep shovels on. Ducks foot. Cultivator blades.. Whatever lingo you use for your area.

I cannot remember now what size they are. Seems like 11" to 9" catches them. I have to do some reading to see what factory size it came with. I have noticed that it runs 2 if not 3 different sizes and I have to wonder if that was from the factory or from the farmer that sold it.

It's a "Kent" brand.

Shoup or Sloan the best way to go on this?

Thanks.

[Gambi80]

They could be. Every so often a local dealer 'here' runs a special on stuff like that and we'll stock up from there.

[olwhda]

Don't know the cheapest place to buy them, BUT I have a Krause Landstar that uses 12" on the 2 front rows, and 10" on the rest of the shovels, and the only place I can find the 12 inch is Schwartzrock Imp(Biking across America) Charles City IA, they sameday ship UPS. I am using some of the Marathon I from Shoup, they are good so far.

[pofarmer]

Generally, our Caseih dealer runs a spring special, and they are about as reasonable as anybody.

[Rich©]

Po.. are the case ones the earth metal logo made just like thier disc blades? I be honest, I have never been impressed with the durability and life of thier "earth metal" products. Seems like they wear out prematurely from what I am accustomed to.

[pofarmer]

Rich, I assume they are Earth Metal, not for sure though. Thing about Earth Metal "here" is they don't break if you hit a rock. i've seen cheaper ones shatter. Have generally been happy with wear, although on 2010 stuff wore like crazy, but everybody was complaining about it. Seemed back to normal this year. Are you guys really sandy?

[Rich©]

Couple bottoms are sand loams but I wouldn't call them sandy at all. We have gumbo places too. Quite the spread and variety of soil types in this area.

Rocks are not an issue. Few places in the hills over west that the limestone and chalk rock pertrude through but that is not my responsibility anymore so I'm real fortunate with the rock situation now.

[cornandbeef]

Shoups are made in America not sure about sloans.

[Rich©]

I hate to say it but price and longevity is going to dictate what I purchase moreso then where its made.

I frequent walmart. That tells you how devoted and astout I am to American only products.

[rlfarmer]

Try Orscheln.

[Jon S]

I like Nichols.

www.nicholstillagetools.com/?page_id=30

[Rich©]

Got orschelns before... decent but have a stigma about thier blades for some reason.

[Hobbyfarmer]

I've got a deere 980 and only get two seasons out of Deere sweeps 12". I am going to try shoup next time. I put CNH earth metal blades on a Deere disc years ago and they were/are better than the Deere stuff of the same time frame.

[ks8780]

I've ran the CNH shovels on a Kent and Sunflower and I'm done with those POS. Always splitting vertically betwen the bolt hole and falling off. I don't know if I've wore one out yet but have replaced many. Local dealer said they have to put washers between the shovel and shank to stop this. I say bull%$#&. build the shovel right in the first place.

I've been replacing them with Deere shovels and they seem to be working allright.

[clayknob]

We run case-ih sweeps, never have had a cracking problem but we pull slower than most too. Nichols are cheap, and they make the sweeps for case-ih. Nichols label is usually 1-2 cheaper.