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West Central Indiana | I'll start out by saying I no-till 85% of my corn each year but always have some conventional till corn. I currently have a Case IH 200 field cultivator and a 5 bar spike harrow. It's a great cultivator but I would like to get clods sized a little better. I also have a Sunflower 1433 disc that gets used very little each year. It mainly goes into untouched cornstalks and we try to smooth out washes or chew up old fence rows with it. I watched the neighbor with a Kuhn-Krause 6205 soil finisher work some untouched corn stalks next to me the other day and I was kind of impressed how it handled the residue and made the dirt look in one pass.
I have never operated or been around a soil finisher. I would like a tool that I could hit untouched soybean stubble, chiseled wheat stubble, and chiseled corn stalks in one pass and leave ready to plant. Would a soil finsiher with 7" shank spacing and a mounted 3 bar spike tooth harrow/rolling basket look nicer in one pass than my field cultivator with a 5 bar harrow?
I use to own a double rolling basket that we pulled behind the field cultivator that helped with firming the ground up and the clod sizing. I don't have it anymore mainly because it was a bear to get up and down our roads and was cumbersome in small fields and doing end rows with.
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soil finisher to replace a field cultivator and disc
