My Double Rotary Hoe Build (Yetter 3530)

Today I will show you my Yetter 3530 double rotary hoe that I built with the help of my good friend Isaac. The advantage to a double is that it will be like making two passes in one! Hope you enjoy the video!

[@jonpeterson9733]

dealing with weed competition more effectively and with fewer passes is great if you can if you can make it work. innovation in this area is needed. it's a financial/time risk no doubt, I really hope with some tweaking it will work well for you. 👍

[@brycekirby1567]

Great work , amazing that it doesnt cause crop damage

[@INOrganicFarmer]

Thanks! I definitely have to watch how I set it. It can become very aggressive if not set properly. Once the beans had their first true leaves I could start getting more aggressive with it.

[@GeigerFarm]

Looks pretty innovative 🙂. Oughta really move dirt. In our long term organic, high OM soils, I would be afraid of causing compaction 🤔. The small 4/4 bar JD 400 hoe, with new spiders, will throw PLENTY of dirt..sometimes almost too much 🤷‍♂️.

[@jonpeterson9733]

this looks like one pass for the width of the implement instead of splitting the pass of a single rotary hoe. do you mean greater compaction on the headlands when lifted, or the heavier tractor needed to operate this hoe or both? good to see you here 👍

[@GeigerFarm]

@@jonpeterson9733 Rotary hoe is compacting if run too wet…as is any tillage pass. 🤷‍♂️. Temptation is to run too soon/wet. The approach we were forced into this year (hoeing too wet, in order to stop weeds/dry the soil) would not have worked with this much total weight 🤔🤔

[@INOrganicFarmer]

Our soil types must be different enough for our different methods. Here, I can’t throw enough dirt with the single rotary hoe. Every year is different with different weed pressures, but I saw many more “white thread” weeds on top of the ground this year behind the doubles. I feel like it is a very effective tool moving forward. You might like it if you tried it 😉.

[@jonpeterson9733]

​@@GeigerFarm thank you for clearing that up, so your concern was in a sense tilling when it's too wet, Fehrs Farm didn't use a rotary hoe on much of their acreage this year due to wet conditions.

[@jonpeterson9733]

​@@INOrganicFarmer so, you have tested your new hoe and it works, awesome!