He Wipes Weeds Has He Cultivates

He wipes weeds has he cultivates CROPS Weed Control 16-5-6 "It saves time and chemicals," says James Heise, Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, who mounted a height-adjustable wick wiper bar on the back of his 8-row cultivator so he can wipe Roundup onto tall-growing weeds and volunteer corn as he cultivates. When Heise first got the idea, he mounted the wick bar on fixed brackets attached to the frame of the cultivator. 'The problem was that the crop, and weeds, had to be at just the right height for the wick bar to do a good job. That's when he decided to mount the wick bar on a height adjustable lift frame off the back of the cultivator that lets him move the wick bar up and down as necessary to do the best job. He mounted two 10-ft wide Speidel Applicators (7800 S. 40th, Lincoln, Neb. 68516 ph 402 423-4003) on a lift frame made out of 4-in. angle iron. There are three hinges on the cultivator toolbar. A single 8-in. stroke cylinder raises and lowers the wick wiper, which is positioned several feet behind the rear cultivator shovels. "It drops down about as low as the cultivator shovels so, if needed, we can wipe weeds without cultivating. At first I had the wick bar too close to the back of the cultivator so the shovels would hold corn down when the wick bar passed over so it wouldn't get a full application of chemical. I had to move the wick bar back further so that the corn, and other tall-growing weeds, would have room to stand up before they hit the wick bar," says Heise. Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, James D. Heise, Rt. 4, Mt. Pleasant, Iowa 52641 (ph 319 258-9873).

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