Insights

Setting up your cultivator for spring

Tine pitch, working depth, gauge wheels and shields: the 3130 setup points, straight from its brochure.

An Alloway row-crop cultivator behind a tractor in the field

Tine pitch, working depth, gauge wheels, shields: four things on the 3130 you can see and touch, all straight from its brochure.

Set pitch and depth with the screws

Tine pitch and working depth are simple screw adjustments on the 3130.

Let the gauge wheels do their job

The 6 x 16 inch gauge wheels maintain uniform working depth as soils vary.

Know your shield options

Rolling shields move up and out of the way as crops mature in the spring tine configuration; longer open top shields protect young crops without damaging mature ones on rigid shanks. Your dealer can help you pick between them for your operation.

Running heavy residue? The single sweep design reduces plugging in high-residue conditions, and your dealer can talk through gang configurations for corn, cotton, vegetables and sugarbeets.