Posted by IaGary on November 03, 2008 at 04:41:54 from (207.177.17.200):
In Reply to: Question/harrow posted by J Mehaffey on November 03, 2008 at 02:45:51:
It is not all tillage dept. Each has it's own purpose for the conditions they are run in.
Disc is used to cut up stubble that would plug up a field cultivator or cultipacker. Can be used from 1/2 inch up to about 8 inches deep, depending on what size blades it has.
Cultipacker is used usually in clean tilled soil to break up clods and firm the soil.
Harrow is used to level and break up clods after it has been tilled with another implement. Usually follows a disc, plow or field cultivator.
I would call a finishing tool a field cultivator and run mine 4 to 6 inches deep.
I disc chisel corn stalks in the fall then I field cultivate in the spring to smooth the seed bed for planting. If the stalks did not get fall chiseled then they are just disced in the spring. Sod is moldboard plowed and field cultivated to plant or could use a cultipacker on it.. Bean stubble is either subsoiled in the fall and field cultivated in the spring or just field cultivated in the spring with no fall tillage.
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