Middle buster
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Topic: Middle buster
Posted By: 1947WC
Subject: Middle buster
Date Posted: 28 Sep 2020 at 12:25pm
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I never owned one. What is the purpose? |
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Posted By: JimWenigOH
Date Posted: 28 Sep 2020 at 4:20pm
| My 2300 Disc has one. It's used to break up an undisturbed, narrow slice of soil that the front gangs leave, prior to the rear gangs passing over it. |
Posted By: WF owner
Date Posted: 28 Sep 2020 at 4:34pm
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When I think of a middle buster, I think of something similar to this: https://www.tractorsupply.com/tsc/product/countyline-middle-buster?cm_vc=-10005" rel="nofollow - https://www.tractorsupply.com/tsc/product/countyline-middle-buster?cm_vc=-10005 It's similar to a subsoiler, but makes a bigger furrow.
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Posted By: DiyDave
Date Posted: 28 Sep 2020 at 6:00pm
Poor man's potato plow, or used to cultivate between wide rows. Some subsoilers can be bought as a subsoiler with optional accessories, like the MB or a pipe layer... ------------- Source: Babylon Bee. Sponsored by BRAWNDO, its got what you need! |
Posted By: Gary Burnett
Date Posted: 28 Sep 2020 at 6:29pm
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I use mine as a lay off plow,ditch with it,potato plow. |
Posted By: jiminnd
Date Posted: 29 Sep 2020 at 7:52am
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I agree with Jim in OH, always thought that was a (middle buster), it is called that in the owners manual. ------------- 1945 C, 1949 WF and WD, 1981 185, 1982 8030, unknown D14(nonrunner) |
Posted By: Hubert (Ga)engine7
Date Posted: 29 Sep 2020 at 8:09pm
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We hooked a chain to a mule drawn one and pulled it behind my uncle's B to dig 'taters. Think I still have it in the barn. ------------- Just an old country boy saved by the grace of God. |
Posted By: 1947WC
Date Posted: 01 Oct 2020 at 11:58am
| Thanks for the information guys very much appreciated. |
Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 01 Oct 2020 at 11:44pm
| some places use them to make tall humps in the fields so they can plant on top of them, then they irrigate down the trench. i've seen ones that were 8 rows wide. lots of truck farms use them. |
Posted By: Tbone95
Date Posted: 02 Oct 2020 at 7:04am
Wow! Do we simultaneously talk about 2 different things much?! 
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Posted By: Joe(TX)
Date Posted: 02 Oct 2020 at 8:09am
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Also called a lister plow ------------- 1970 190XT, 1973 200, 1962 D-19 Diesel, 1979 7010, 1957 WD45, 1950 WD, 1961 D17, Speed Patrol, D14, All crop 66 big bin, 180 diesel, 1970 170 diesel, FP80 forklift. Gleaner A |
Posted By: TimCNY
Date Posted: 02 Oct 2020 at 8:10am
Hey Tbone95, wanna start a third?  ------------- I need more than 200 characters for my "signature." I'd love to see that changed to 250! |
Posted By: Tbone95
Date Posted: 02 Oct 2020 at 8:26am
Sure! |
TimCNY wrote:Posted By: CrestonM
Date Posted: 06 Oct 2020 at 1:52pm
| Then there's the opposite of what Shameless said...insitead of planting on the hill they made, out in western Oklahoma/Texas and other dryland places, they used lister planters and planted cotton/milo in the trench the middlebuster left behind. Had to try and catch any rain that may come. |
Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 07 Oct 2020 at 12:44am
| i also had one of them Creston. was a 4-row, |
Posted By: Herb(GA)
Date Posted: 07 Oct 2020 at 8:34pm
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Decades ago, before fertilizer and hybrids, two middle busters (aka listers) were on 42" centers and dug a 7" deep furrow which also resulted in a 5" high ridge. Row crop like corn and milo were planted in the bottoms of these furrows/ridges. As the crops grew cultivator shovels scraped these ridges into the furrows resulting in elimination of the resulting young weeds and covering the crop seeds and plant roots now being 7"+ deep. Winds had to become very severe before they adversely affected the well rooted row crop plants. Also the weather had to become very dry before it affected roots that were 7"+ deep. In central Kansas this all changed with the advent of fertilizers and hybrids; about the time I graduated from school and did a hitch in the Navy; then left home. Dad made good money raising 40 bushel/acre corn. Today two big quarter mile radius irrigation wheels dominate our old half section farm. Herb(GA) |
Posted By: Wispitfiremike
Date Posted: 09 Oct 2020 at 7:35pm
Wow just bought one with some other parts for the rock shaft for our B, had no idea what it was for, figured you guys would know but did not have chance to take a picture til today. Steve this was with the stuff you sent me the lead on.
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