The camera would be handy at first pass when the plants are less than 6 inches. Thinking as big as those beans are, a Buffalo plow with a Scout hitch would have run through it a little easier, especially if you put a set of the big star wheels to run in the row. I've found as cheap as old cultivators are, it is fairly economical to build what you need out of an older cultivator and just have one set up for each time and stage of a crop. The TilMor company has all the same sweeps, stars, and options that Steketee uses for the cultivating equipment they sell or to update a cultivator on a Super A or Super C Farmall for example. Lemken also has something they called EC Steer that will hook to any cultivator and steer like the one in the video, so if you have multiple cultivators you can use that hitch and their camera.
It's a wonder they don't use CANBUS tech so you can run it through the Greenstar monitor. You have so many monitors that you can hardly look through the windows. We try to keep monitor clutter down, like taking the planter monitor out when the baler monitor goes in. The sprayer tractor is dedicated to the sprayer, except for spreading fertilizer, but it uses the same monitor and not the boom controls. Great video, Patrick! I'm not into vegetable crops, but that looks like a handy unit. Thanks for the demo and video! 👍👍
I love the Lemken stuff, best on the market I believe and hope to see you running some more in videos in the near future. These camera guided cultivators fascinate me and they will be the future especially as more stuff becomes more roundup resistant. Your videos are the best for pure farming info. Enjoy them and keep up the great work. God Bless !
The more things change, the more they stay the same. Except for the camera and guidance, it's eerily similar to the old Burch row crop cultivators we ran in the 70s and 80s. And yes, the old Burch products were blue.
