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Field cultivars, Basket or no Basket?
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Oliver1
Posted 1/23/2025 10:24 (#11069767 - in reply to #11068729)
Subject: RE: Field cultivars, Basket or no Basket?



Alton, Ia		We've had a TM200 with basket for several years, works well. Round bar. In our soil, if the basket is balling up, it's too wet to be there, by far. The salesman we had (Tony P), claimed the mounted basket with tines is better than pulling a rolling basket, if you get trash buildup on the tines, the basket being right behind them will pinch the trash and pull it through. For the most part, he was right, although we can still plug the tines up (primarily dead GRW stalks along field edges, etc.) Rarely see it "in field". We have a few times done small areas of cornstalks undisked, we do have Devastators on CH, and the FC handles it okay.

The theory behind the basket is they are supposed to throw the big clumps higher than the mellow soil, so your seed depth is nice fine soil, with lumps on top to protect and be more crust resistant. Maybe, maybe not. We have not had crusting issues like we used to, whether it's the basket or the higher OM content due to no-till and copious hog manure, can't say. Tony P did also recommend pulling it fast, like 7+, I believe ours does do a better job than at 5, but either one is better than a disk or the old 724 soil finisher.

Pretty much any new spring tillage I've seen in this area has at least one basket. AGCO makes a finisher with 2. Was told by somebody in our soils, round bar for spring tillage, flat for fall, I believe the AGCO/Sunflower soil finisher has a flat bar behind the front disks and a round bar behind the tines, but not sure. If I only knew an engineer at that company I could talk to........ :)
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