Posted by notjustair on June 12, 2017 at 20:51:39 from (184.191.48.136):
I'm using a 30 foot JD 630 disk and 42 foot JD 1010 cultivator for tillage. I pull both with an 8430. The cultivator is about 50 years old (literally) and old technology. When the vertical tillage tools started popping up I thought it was just another way of cultivating but today I realized I'm probably behind the times. I didn't want to go deep and dry things out but there were lots of large weeds in the field I planted today. Instead I cultivated it twice to get the job done and then planted it. That's three passes over the same 110 acres. The VT's I have seen are set up like a disk but without concave blades and are followed by rolling baskets. I had been worried the baskets would pulverize things too much, but the field I planted today was what got me thinking. In places those two tillage passes made powder out of the soil, and in places the tine harrow on the back did nothing to break up the clods. I'm a little worried about soil contact in a few places.
I'm just wondering if anyone has gone from a field cultivator to a VT tool and how they like it. I know the disk isn't leaving. I have to keep it for when things get too woolly before I get in to burn down. About 400 of my crop acres do best with tilling and the other 400 do well no-till. I'm just thinking a VT might do a better job on the fields where I could get by with one pass.
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