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Gooseneck Drill Teamed With Howard Rotaspike
"We seeded over 1,000 acres with this rig last year with no problem," says Martin Wedman, Valleyview, Alberta, who put a ball-hitch on his Howard Rotaspike tillage machine and hitched it up to a heavy-duty gooseneck hitch that's mounted on his trailing grain drill. The combination of the two machines lets him prepare a
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Gooseneck Drill Teamed with Howard Rotaspike HITCHES Hitches 10-1-9 "We seeded over 1,000 acres with this rig last year with no problem," says Martin Wedman, Valleyview, Alberta, who put a ball-hitch on his Howard Rotaspike tillage machine and hitched it up to a heavy-duty gooseneck hitch that's mounted on his trailing grain drill. The combination of the two machines lets him prepare a seedbed, incorporate chemicals and seed at the same time.
Wedman had to remove the up-front castor wheel on the grain drill and beef up the frame. The gooseneck hitch attaches to the seed drill frame at four points.
"We follow directly behind the plow. This year we had hardly any rain for the first 6 weeks of the growing season and still got a good-looking crop due to the smooth field left by the Rotaspike," says Wedman.
A spray boom, mounted on the Rotaspike, is equipped with 4 wide angle nozzles. Twin spray tanks mount on the front of the IH 3588 tractor. Chemicals are sprayed just ahead of the Rotaspike which uses its shaft-mounted tiller spikes to incorporate the chemicals as it prepares the seedbed.
Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Martin Wedman, P.O. Box 1889, Valleyview, Alberta, Canada T0H 3N0 (ph 403 524-2553).
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