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AC 1300 Field Cultivator Sweep Size

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Topic: AC 1300 Field Cultivator Sweep Size

Posted By: dnel45
Subject: AC 1300 Field Cultivator Sweep Size
Date Posted: 15 Mar 2013 at 1:02pm

What was the standard sweep size on the 1300 field cultivators? I have a 24' that I am going to be replacing the sweeps on. Were they all the same sweep size, front to back? Shoup has an 8" sweep for $7.00 / ea. Is this a pretty standard price? Thanks

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Posted By: ILGLEANER
Date Posted: 15 Mar 2013 at 1:03pm

Yes they were all the same size.

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Posted By: llreckow
Date Posted: 15 Mar 2013 at 1:15pm

When the 1300 fld cult was new the recommend sweep size was a four inch sweep,all the sweeps were the same size.

Posted By: dnel45
Date Posted: 15 Mar 2013 at 1:21pm

Thanks for the info. Would an 8" be okay on it? Heavy clay ground mostly but usually use field cultivator for light shallow tillage before planting.

Posted By: auctioneer
Date Posted: 15 Mar 2013 at 1:28pm

we sell a lot 7 inch the main thing make sure they are 54 degress

Posted By: dnel45
Date Posted: 15 Mar 2013 at 1:45pm

Alright thanks for the info. What do you guys sell them for per shovel?

Posted By: auctioneer
Date Posted: 15 Mar 2013 at 3:24pm

$ 7.90 for a seven inch
$ 7.60 for 6 inch

Posted By: Gerald J.
Date Posted: 15 Mar 2013 at 3:40pm

To kill weeds I think they need to overlap. To stir dirt narrower will work, but when I tilled, I had spring weeds like wild mustard that I expected the field cultivator to cut off. And grass in some places where disking only seemed to encourage the grass to grow better.

I bought some from Shoup (www.shoupparts.com) that were only sharp on 2" of the front edge, they didn't cut weeds with the wings until I ground on them for a day. Shoup generally has good prices on sweeps, though one year the local IH dealer beat them considerably.

Gerald J.

Posted By: Leon B MO
Date Posted: 15 Mar 2013 at 6:13pm

If you have heavy vegitation, the 1300 will choke up pretty quick, the wider the sweep the more it will clog up. On that model I would go as small as possible with the sweeps and still get weed kill. We had one and used it mainly for incorporating chemicals. It didn't like many weeds..

Leon B MO

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Posted By: Amos
Date Posted: 15 Mar 2013 at 7:48pm

I have bought a couple sets from Shoup for my 1300 over the years. I also used the Case IH earth metal ones for their cultivator that are 7 1/4" wide with good results, just theirs is a different angle and the Shoup one's we felt worked better. We did have to shallow the depth adjustment after switching to the Shoup ones. Shoup sweeps are 8".

Posted By: DrAllis
Date Posted: 15 Mar 2013 at 7:55pm

Had a customer buy a set of 7 inch sweeps many years ago against my advice. He did 5 acres and came back and bought another complete set, only this time 4 inches wide. Untilled soybean ground will plug quickly with 6 or 7 inch sweeps.

Posted By: llreckow
Date Posted: 16 Mar 2013 at 1:12pm

The spacing on your cult should be 6" between shanks,if you go wider than 6" sweeps
you will be just overlapping the sweeps.

Posted By: Gerald J.
Date Posted: 16 Mar 2013 at 2:23pm

And if you don't overlap weeds will slip through.

Gerald J.

Posted By: Amos
Date Posted: 16 Mar 2013 at 8:41pm

I forgot to mention, the larger sweeps work best in my sand ground. They are not the best in the clay loam farm I have, best thing there are narrow sweeps of 4 inches at the widest and a whole lot of them on an S tine, I think, I just don't have anything set up for that farm...yet.