This site uses cookies to maintain login information on FarmallCub.Com. Click the X in the banner upper right corner to close this notice. For more information on our privacy policy, visit this link:
Privacy Policy

NEW REGISTERED MEMBERS: Be sure to check your SPAM/JUNK folders for the activation email.

Creative side dresser solutions

Farming and rural life discussion forum. Cooking, hunting, gardening, fishing, critters, etc.
Matt Kirsch
10+ Years
10+ Years
Posts: 4945
Joined: Tue Jun 08, 2004 3:04 pm
Zip Code: 14559
Circle of Safety: Y
Location: Rochester, NY

Creative side dresser solutions

Postby Matt Kirsch » Mon May 10, 2010 11:59 am

My sweet corn is definitely going to need fertilizer, but I have no way to apply it with the little push planter I have.

I have a side dresser for my Super A, but getting the loader off it to install the cultivators is a LOT of work. Plus I don't think the side dresser has ever been used so it's pretty valuable as-is. I figure if times get tough that's my meal ticket for a while.

Buying another Super A or a Cub side dresser just isn't in the cards right now.

Has anyone found a creative way to sprinkle fertilizer on while cultivating?

SPONSOR AD

Sponsor



Sponsor
 

User avatar
Bigdog
Team Cub Mentor
Team Cub Mentor
Posts: 24144
Joined: Sun Feb 02, 2003 12:50 pm
Zip Code: 43113
Circle of Safety: Y
Location: OH, Circleville
Contact:

Re: Creative side dresser solutions

Postby Bigdog » Mon May 10, 2010 4:22 pm

You got a long flexible tube and a funnel?????? :lol: :lol: :lol: (Well, you asked for creative!)
Bigdog
If you can't fix it with a hammer, you've got an electrical problem.

My wife says I don't listen to her. - - - - - - - - Or something like that!

Image

http://www.cubtug.com

User avatar
KETCHAM
10+ Years
10+ Years
Posts: 5878
Joined: Thu Jul 28, 2005 2:37 pm
Zip Code: 44645
eBay ID: kevinb2366
Tractors Owned: 47 Cub 48 Cub 50 H
Location: Marshallville Ohio
Contact:

Re: Creative side dresser solutions

Postby KETCHAM » Mon May 10, 2010 10:08 pm

Brutal!!! Get a salt spreader andtrow it everywhere!!!! NOT!!!! Rent a cub for a day!!!Kevin :lol: :lol: :lol:
47 CUB[Krusty] 49 CUB[Ollie] 50 H-- PLOWS DISCS MOWERS AND lots more stuff!!Life is to short -Have fun now cause ya ain't gonna be here long!!!!

User avatar
Boss Hog
Cub Pro
Cub Pro
Posts: 10290
Joined: Mon Oct 24, 2005 8:35 pm
Zip Code: 23962
eBay ID: dmb2613
Circle of Safety: Y
Location: VA. Randolph

Re: Creative side dresser solutions

Postby Boss Hog » Mon May 10, 2010 10:23 pm

get a five gal bucket and put it down by hand, a handfull will do about 4 plants. Then cultivate it in. We did this when we used mules in Tobacco.
boss

PS I would use the side dresser you have just clean it up well after use.
IN GOD WE TRUST
All others pay cash
Boss Hog
Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely byJohn Emerich Edward Dalberg

Dirtdoc74
Cub Star!
Cub Star!
Posts: 222
Joined: Sat Jul 03, 2021 6:21 pm
Zip Code: 47037

Re: Creative side dresser solutions

Postby Dirtdoc74 » Wed May 12, 2010 11:18 pm

take your 46-0-0(urea) in a 5 gallon bucket and a 20 oz bottle with top cut off. this should hold approximately 1 lb of fert. I think the right amount would be 2 bottles for 100 ft of row. Sprinkle in the middle of the row, cultivate it in, or any other way to get it covered, and your done. You could check with your extension agent to clarify amount. I do know that 1 bottle/100ft is enough for cauliflower ect. Greg

DanR
10+ Years
10+ Years
Posts: 1631
Joined: Fri Dec 22, 2006 6:28 am
Zip Code: 37743
Circle of Safety: Y
Location: Tennessee East

Re: Creative side dresser solutions

Postby DanR » Thu May 13, 2010 5:50 am

How about using a soluble fertilizer?
47 Cub (Glenda)
52 Super A
62 Cub (Genie)
43 H
42 M
In all things know which way the wind is blowing.

User avatar
Super A
10+ Years
10+ Years
Posts: 5228
Joined: Mon Jan 26, 2004 10:53 am
Zip Code: 28521
Tractors Owned: Collector of Super As, Corn Pickers, and a buncha other junk. Even a Cub now and then...
Circle of Safety: Y
Location: NC, Jacksonville area

Re: Creative side dresser solutions

Postby Super A » Thu May 13, 2010 7:11 am

Boss Hog wrote:get a five gal bucket and put it down by hand, a handfull will do about 4 plants. Then cultivate it in. We did this when we used mules in Tobacco.
boss

PS I would use the side dresser you have just clean it up well after use.


This is probably the simplest and most effective way. We dont' even use a side dresser in the garden.

Al
White Demo Super A Restoration Updates

Let us pray for farmers and all who prepare the soil for planting, that the seeds they sow may lead to a bountiful harvest.
Celebrating 75 years of the Super A: 1947-2022

Harold R
Team Cub Guide
Team Cub Guide
Posts: 3280
Joined: Thu Feb 20, 2003 4:54 pm
Zip Code: 71203
Tractors Owned: 1948,55, and 56 Farmall Cubs.
Circle of Safety: Y
Location: Louisiana

Re: Creative side dresser solutions

Postby Harold R » Thu May 13, 2010 8:12 am

I put my sack of fertilizer on the floor pan and idle down the rows with my hand sprinkling pellets off the back of the tractor. Working good so far.

Bill E Bob
10+ Years
10+ Years
Posts: 3034
Joined: Wed May 31, 2006 12:09 pm
Zip Code: 74070
Circle of Safety: Y
Location: OK, Skiatook

Re: Creative side dresser solutions

Postby Bill E Bob » Thu May 13, 2010 8:18 am

You could get a funnel and put it in one of the two holes in the floorpan and use that to fertilize. Might as well put those holes to SOME use :roll: :wink:

User avatar
tractordad
10+ Years
10+ Years
Posts: 1475
Joined: Sat Sep 12, 2009 1:36 pm
Zip Code: 01516
Tractors Owned: 48 Cub w/ IH C2 mower
50 High wide "demo" cub with dual fertilizer hoppers
51 high wide cub w/474 planter
62 High wide cub w/ fast hitch
72 High wide w/cultivators
75 Red Long stripe w/fast hitch & C2 mower
76 Red long stripe w/IH 1000 loader & duals
77 long stripe with IH C2 belly mower
55 Super AV w/cultivators
56 Super AV
57 130 High crop w/cultivators
1 IH 574 w IH 2250
quick hitch loader
Circle of Safety: Y
Location: Douglas, MA

Re: Creative side dresser solutions

Postby tractordad » Thu May 13, 2010 4:14 pm

Matt Kirsch wrote:My sweet corn is definitely going to need fertilizer, but I have no way to apply it with the little push planter I have.

I have a side dresser for my Super A, but getting the loader off it to install the cultivators is a LOT of work. Plus I don't think the side dresser has ever been used so it's pretty valuable as-is. I figure if times get tough that's my meal ticket for a while.

Buying another Super A or a Cub side dresser just isn't in the cards right now.

Has anyone found a creative way to sprinkle fertilizer on while cultivating?



What do you have for tractors and what is currently mounted on them?

cottonpicker
10+ Years
10+ Years
Posts: 141
Joined: Sat Mar 08, 2008 10:12 am
Zip Code: 35670
Tractors Owned: [3/] 6 CUBs
[2 B farmalls sold]
other old farm stuff [junk to some people]
Location: Berry RD 35670 Alabama
Contact:

Re: Creative side dresser solutions

Postby cottonpicker » Thu May 13, 2010 6:32 pm

The summer I was 7 , my job was to " soda " [ 16 % ammonia nitrate of soda , bull dog brand of natural Chilean ] my 16 year old brother's crops. We had a scrap table spoon, lard bucket which held about one gallon. He showed to put one table spoon to each plant. Of course in that area corn was planted 2 x 4. That is two feet in the drill and rows four feet apart. He had 8 acres of cotton and about 10 acres of corn. I " soda " all 18 acres, barefoot and walking most of the time on my toes,as there was a big sore on my right heel.
My brother plowed round to the row behind me, and kept me stepping to stay ahead of the mule

child abuse .... na .... it kept me from mischief

Someone had to do it... daddy was away working on the atom bomb plant in Tn. and mother was home bound with my baby brother.

Wish I could do it again

Spencer

HoosierCub
10+ Years
10+ Years
Posts: 58
Joined: Thu Jun 04, 2009 4:36 am
Zip Code: 46962

Re: Creative side dresser solutions

Postby HoosierCub » Thu May 13, 2010 6:47 pm

I appreciate all of the info here. Was just about to post in the garden section to find out how much nitrogen to put on my sweet corn. Now I think I will just go with the tablespoon per plant.

Can this thread be duplicated in the Garden Section for people that may miss it here?

Thanks again, Tim

huntingpal
10+ Years
10+ Years
Posts: 357
Joined: Mon Jul 11, 2005 7:25 pm
eBay ID: huntingpal
Location: southern indiana/ spencer county

Re: Creative side dresser solutions

Postby huntingpal » Tue May 18, 2010 7:47 pm

I run the cultivators through and then use my push planter filled with fertilizer and push it down the rows. I think it is the been plate I use. Run down each side of the row several inches away from the plants. If the rows are long you will need to fill up at each end. takes awhile but cheeper than a side dresser. I usually side dress twice once after it is around 3 weeks in the ground then when it is tall enough to just get through with the tractor. They actually make a fertilizer atachment for the push planter. I had one but broke it a couple years ago. Been working for me. Hope this helps
1948 cub
1959 cub
lots of implements


Return to “Farm Life and Better Half Forum”

Who is online

Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 5 guests