Cultimulcher for market garden farmer? Also New vs. Old philosophy

[Riverbound]

Jared, I really don’t have much info on it, but have a call in to E-Z to find out. I’ll let you know when I do.

[Donn Hewes]

Hi Riverbound, I looked into the center cut mower awhile back for some friends that wanted to mow between asparagus beds and other uses. They didn’t buy one but the machines looked good. I know that a couple years ago they felt they were still making improvements. in mowing cover crops, I think in most cases were a bed is more than 12′ wide you could easily mow it with a standard side mower.

[Mac]

Getting around here kinda late, but I have one questions: what does a cultimulcher cost on average? Say a 6′ riding type? I’ve been wanting one for a while, but haven’t priced any yet. Thought this’d be the best place to ask.
Thanks guys,

Mac

[Riverbound]

About 2K as far as I’ve found out. Plus shipping of course. There are some options, at least at Shipshe, like with or without front gang turning. I’m feeling a pretty sold.

[Riverbound]

Thanks for the info Donn. I’m still waiting to hear back from EZ. I’m looking at mowing 16″ swaths between rows of veggies spaced at 64″, the veggies being cultivated with a 48″ cultivator. Kind of odd, I know, but there are “good” reasons, really 🙂

[dominiquer60]

I paid $2k for my 5′ Schipshe, that includes the articulating from roller, pole and seat. I actually got it for a little less because I bought it at Horse Progress Days and it was in the field demos both days. I highly recommend the articulating front roller, it still takes a lot of sideways pressure for the horses to move it around on my tight headlands, but much less than the non-articulating version, and makes a much tighter turn as well.

[Mac]

Thanks for the info!

Mac

[Robert MoonShadow]

@near horse 39206 wrote:

I do have a couple of pictures on the computer ….. somewhere. I’ll see what I can find.

Arrrgh. 🙂

I recognize that guy! Now I’m 5’8″ tall, so you can see how big those boys of Geoff’s really are! Well mannered & very personable. Geoff – Any idea on the draft of that equipment? Do you think my two girls might handle it? Or would another donk be advised? {I’ve got a guy that lives upriver from me w/ several lg. standard/mammoths for sale real cheap.

[Andy Carson]

How deep are you going to run it? Do the tips have sweeps? If so, how wide? If we don’t have data on this tool directly, we could probably get close by adding up similar implements. IE, cultivator at X depth + rolling basket harrow at X width.

PS. Are you using this in already tilled soil? Is so, how was it worked (plow, disc, chisel)?

[near horse]

The single horse cultimulcher I posted was demonstrated in already worked soil with good tilth. A friend I plow with also built one himself although it was a 2 horse unit and he ran it over ground that we’d just plowed —- so pretty rough. It did okay.

The modified riding cultivator I never saw in action but they did demo one of those single horse walk behind cultivators and that thing was pretty impressive …. like a hundred ft row in about a minute vs how long to hand hoe?

Can’t speak to the draft much but if anyone can give us a calculated number it’s Andy! What do you think?

[steve]

I built one from the pictures posted on here. 6 foot wide 3 horses can pull easy 4 more fun. PREP= 12” pioneer sulky plow (oliver bottom)fall. 3 pass with cultipacker, 1 with spike harrows , 1 with packer. seed drill pass , then 1 pass with roller.

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