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Crustbuster Helps Crops Emerge
A home-built 6-row "crustbuster", built from a variety of discarded parts, has saved a corn crop more than once for Illinois farmer Glenn McCrea.
Most fields on his farm have heavy black soils where crusting is not a problem. But McCrea has a few fields with what he calls "timber" soils that crust over with a har
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Crustbuster Helps Crops Emerge CULTIVATORS Cultivators (58C) 17-6-7 A home-built 6-row "crustbuster", built from a variety of discarded parts, has saved a corn crop more than once for Illinois farmer Glenn McCrea.
Most fields on his farm have heavy black soils where crusting is not a problem. But McCrea has a few fields with what he calls "timber" soils that crust over with a hard shell after a spring rain, making it difficult for his crop to emerge. To solve the problem, he built this weighted row hoe to break through and let the crop emerge.
The toolbar he used was originally used to tow a chain link harrow. The clamp-on shanks came off an IH cultivator. The rotary hoe wheels came off a Deere rotary hoe.
McCrea says he used cultivator shanks to support the hoe wheels because they can handle the extra weight he adds to the frame in the form of IH tractor weights. Spacing is set up for 30-in. rows.
Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Glenn McCrea, Lincoln, Ill. 62656 (ph 217 732-4519).
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