Re: Re: Cultivator vs. Scuffler..Wheel Plow vs.Dis

Posted by CNKS on August 14, 2003 at 19:30:17 from (207.178.96.213):

In Reply to: Re: Cultivator vs. Scuffler..Wheel Plow vs.Disc posted by Hugh MacKay on August 14, 2003 at 03:10:33:

LONG way from Nova Scotia, to Texas (I live in Kansas now), but the terminology is about the same. I never heard of a scuffler until I got on this board, and still didn't know it was a cultivator until a couple of days ago. Trailer plow, cultivator, semi-mounted plow, spike-tooth harrow use the same terminology every place I have been. However, the field culivators I am familiar with have detachable sweeps, spring tooth harrows, wheeled or not just have teeth. Spring tooth harrow is good for preparing a seedbed, field cultivator, because of the sweeps, controls small weeds better, assuming the same number of ranks. In Kansas and most of the Great Plains we use "undercutters" (sweep plow, V blade) to control weeds. Sweeps are usually 5 feet wide and run just under the soil surface to cut the roots off, and conserve residue. Heard one Guy from eastern Nebraska call it a "duckfoot". Now the newer version of the field cultivator is called a "fallow master", believe that is a trademark. It can be run shallower than the sweep plow, and will go through fairly heavy residue that will plug a field cultivator. In Texas, we used disk plows instead of moldboards. What is called a one-way in Kansas is called a tiller in Texas (at least in south Texas. This is not a true plow, but is designed like a trailer plow, and cuts at about the same angle as one gang of an offset disk. Sprt of a cross between a primary and secondary tillage implement. Not used much anymore because of destrucion of residue.

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