Jim, I share your feelings about a 2 row cult. First time across in low gear made me very sleepy.
However, as a young kid in the late "40s and early "50s no one owned a 4-row cultivator in EC Iowa, at least we never saw one (Grundy Co.). Cultivated 2 rows with F20, H and M, JD B and A, Case SC and thought that was normal. At the ends we turned and skipped 2 rows, then dropped cult. and went down those rows. When we got across to the fenceline, we worked our way back on those skipped rows. That method saved wear and tear on the brakes making too tight of a turn, and was easier for a kid with no power steering on a tractor with a heavy front end. But I thought an H in 4th was flying when doing the 3rd cultivating ("Laying it by").
From a road, it was kind of neat to see a field half cultivated...like a striped field.
The biggest (and most impressionable) new inventions I saw back then were the 4 row cult, a 4 bottom trailer plow behind a JD R and an open seat self-propelled Case combine. Open seat on a combine, November, and Iowa = whooey! Same as a mounted picker! LA in WI
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