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Originally Posted by J-Mech
Oh, John..... you have no idea then, lol!
In 1996 (or so) granddad decided to switch the farm to organic. He just didn't like chemical I guess. So, we went OLD SCHOOL farming. We plowed, rotary hoe'd beginning 3 days after planting, and hoe'd every 3-4 days until the crop was too big, then switched to cultivating. We had IH cultivators set up different ways, and a Lilliston rolling cultivator.
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Wow, I thought Lilliston was a Southern thing--tobacco fields. Used to run them under Super A's (100.130,140), then everybody went to 2 row units behind 50hp tractors. I imagine now they are running up to 6 or 8 rows--I think the spacing is around 42" (wider than old school 38" corn) so the stuff gets pretty wide. By the time we went to the rolling cultivators we were moving pretty darn fast, had already moved about all the dirt we wanted up around the plant. To begin it was rather slow with "buzzard wings" designed to move dirt in a crop grown on raised rows. FWIW, we still have 2 Lilliston rotary mowers here. both 50-60 years old--fantastic equipment, think BushHog owns them now.