Cultivator Waters Or Fertilizes

Cultivator Waters Or Fertilizes CULTIVATORS Cultivators (58C) 32-5-35 "It lets me either irrigate or apply liquid fertilizer while I'm cultivating," says Tom Chaney, Chrisman, Ill., who made a 3-pt. mounted, 4-row cultivator for his Ford 9N tractor using the beam off an International Harvester cultivator and the shanks off an old chisel plow. He also mounted a 55-gal. liquid fertilizer tank on top of the 30-in. row cultivator. He bolted a single chisel plow shank onto the cultivator beam for each row. Tubes run from the tank down behind each cultivator shovel, allowing Chaney to gravity feed liquid fertilizer beside the rows. A hand-operated control valve is used to open or close the tubes. "I use it in my garden. It's easy to operate and eliminates the need to use a walk-behind rototiller," says Chaney. "I put restrictor valves in all four tubes so it'll apply the same amount of fertilizer or water to all the rows. "To fill the tank with water, I use a homemade garden æwater tower' that collects rain water (featured in FARM SHOW's Vol. 32, No. 4). I built it by welding together two 55-gal. barrels. A rain gutter that extends 5 ft. out from a pole shed is used to fill it. "I got the tank from my uncle's junked 4-row Deere planter, which originally had two 55-gal. tanks on it. Two tubes extended down from the bottom of each tank, one on each side. An actuator valve opened and closed the restrictor valves automatically as the planter was raised or lowered. I installed a handle on the actuator valve, which allows me to reach back from the tractor seat and open or close the valve manually." Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Tom Chaney, Sr., 14732 E. 1800th Rd., Chrisman, Ill. 61924 (ph 217 269-3507; tomchansr@ yahoo.com).

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