The Bezzerides Spyder Weeder is an ideal tool to use ahead of the Torsion Weeder, Spring Hoe Weeder, and Spinners. They do not leave a smooth ridge or shoulder that dries out. The staggered teeth of the Spyder mulches the soil in an uneven pattern which is then easily loosened by the Torsion Weeders or Spring Hoe Weeders. Unlike some tools, the Spyder Weeder helps reduce the amount of clods formed during cultivation. If desired, with a simple adjustment, the Spyder can be angled to move the soil towards the plant row. All of these advantages can help contribute to better harvesting conditions in sugar beets, cotton and many other row crops. Spyder Weeders are built for long wear and rotate on heavy-duty, ball-bearing hubs. They fill an important gap in today''s modern farm tillage.
A FEW SIMPLE OPERATING INSTRUCTIONS Install Spyders on each side of the plant row. The front of the Spyder should be closest to the row with the bent teeth toward the plant and pointing down at the rear. When the curved teeth point up at the rear, their action is more severe and will be more prone to plugging. They should operate at approximately a thirty(30) degree angle to the row and at the desired depth. The Bezzerides Spyder Weeder combinations are ideal for use in most all row crops, such as: COTTON, CORN, CABBAGE, TOMATOES, SUGAR BEETS, SOYBEANS, AND MANY OTHERS
Install Spyders on each side of the plant row. The front of the Spyder should be closest to the row with the bent teeth toward the plant and pointing down at the rear. When the curved teeth point up at the rear, their action is more severe and will be more prone to plugging. They should operate at approximately a thirty(30) degree angle to the row and at the desired depth.
The Bezzerides Spyder Weeder combinations are ideal for use in most all row crops, such as: COTTON, CORN, CABBAGE, TOMATOES, SUGAR BEETS, SOYBEANS, AND MANY OTHERS
The best time to eliminate weeds in row crop is while they are young, before they can establish a good root system. Having tools for complete row crop cultivation, we here at Bezzerides Brothers have found a need for special tools to be used on small, tender plants. The Bezzerides Torsion Weeders were designed for just this purpose -- to work in and around the plant row, eliminating as many weeds as possible without moving a lot of soil.
Torsion Weeders are made of high quality spring steel and are designed to mounting in either a Torsion Weeder standard , or are easily adapted to our Spring Hoe Weeder bracket. Both mounting methods allow full adjustment so you can get as delicate or severe as conditions will permit.
Remove discs. Install the hub to the side of the Spyder, in which, the bent teeth point. Once the hub and Spyder are installed on the Standard the bent teeth should point away from the standard and toward the plant row with the rear teeth pointing down. Offset the left and right sides by placing one clamp to the front of the tool bar and one clamp to the rear. This allows for better adjustment. Also, if there is debris in the row this will allow it to be pulled out of the row without dragging it over the plants. You can adjust them to the desired depth and as closeness that your conditions allow.
Install the Torsion Weeder brackets on the standards and adjust the Torsion Weeders to the desired depth and closeness. You can determine how severe to adjust them simply by trial -- all you want to do is break up the soil around and between the plants at a slight depth. The speed of travel will have an impact on this. You will be amazed at the results. The earlier you can get the weeds, the more effective you cultivation will be.
On later cultivation you can set the Spyders further from the row in front and closer in the rear to break up the soil between the plants. Then as the Torsion Weeders come through the weeds will be obliterated.
The Bezzerides Spring Hoe Weeders' "magical action" disturbs and mulches the soil around and between the plants, uprooting and killing noxious weeds. The rapidly oscillating spring blades work just below the surface which provides an adequate "safety factor" in preventing plant damage. The effect is amazing... you travel at a fast rate of speed and the Spring Hoe Weeder does a perfect job of cultivating and weeding around and between the plants.
Spring Hoe Weeders give you an entirely new system of plant cultivation. You get the weeds while they are small with periodic repeats you can keep manual labor to a minimum. The working tips of the Weeder blades travel beneath the soil around the base of the plants. This uproots the weeds and aerates and mulches the earth. The plants themselves are not disturbed because their root systems are firmly established.
Spring Hoe Weeder units, for each row, consist of two right and two left, scientifically-shaped, special spring steel blades and two mounting brackets with slotted adjustment holes. Adapter brackets for use with spring trip shanks are available if requested. The two loft and right blades are set to work opposite each other at 45 degree angles to the row. As the tractor travels forward, the spring blades oscillate vigorously beneath the surface and it is this compression and vibration that that disturbs the soil and efficiently mulches and weeds at the same time. In harder soil the blades are set closer together because the extra resistance of the heavy soil tends to spread the blades apart. Many users double-up the blades (eight blades to a row) in extremely tough conditions. When working in light soil the blades may be set farther apart and still efficiently cultivate the soil.
Spring Hoe Weeder units, for each row, consist of two right and two left, scientifically-shaped, special spring steel blades and two mounting brackets with slotted adjustment holes. Adapter brackets for use with spring trip shanks are available if requested. The two loft and right blades are set to work opposite each other at 45 degree angles to the row. As the tractor travels forward, the spring blades oscillate vigorously beneath the surface and it is this compression and vibration that that disturbs the soil and efficiently mulches and weeds at the same time.
In harder soil the blades are set closer together because the extra resistance of the heavy soil tends to spread the blades apart. Many users double-up the blades (eight blades to a row) in extremely tough conditions. When working in light soil the blades may be set farther apart and still efficiently cultivate the soil.
Spring Hoe Weeders are available in two models. The first model is 2030L(left) and 2031R(right) (recommended for single row cultivation). The blades are 16.5 inches long and has a working tip area of 6 inches. This model should be set for a 13.5 inch spread, which allows the user to mount the unit with a greater distance from the plant row and work underneath and between the plants without disturbing the plants growth. The second model is 2040L(left) and 2041R(right). The blades are 16.25 inches long with a 4 inch working tip area. This model is used primarily in bottom furrow and double-row cultivation. Many double-row crops planted on beds have a crown between the two rows of plants. The second model should be set for an 11.5 inches spread, which enable the user to cultivate close without moving the dirt in the crown toward the plants.
A pair of spinners is mounted on the tractor cultivator or tool bar, with one following the other working in opposite angles to the row. Mark a line on the tool bar of your cultivator indicating the center of the plant row. For the right side place the clamp 6 inches to the right of the center mark. (note: the red flex standard is for the right side and the blue flex standard is for the left side) For the left place the clamp 6 inches to the left of the center mark. Insert the flex standards in the clamp and raise them to a position higher than you feel necessary. (This is advisable as it is best to let standards down for desired depth rather than trying to raise them up after the cultivator is in the down position)
A novel feature of the Spinner is that with one unit following the other, they track, and regardless of the number of times you go over the field, the tines follow the same pattern. Going one way down the row it makes a "turkey track" at regular intervals between the plants in the row. Then going the opposite direction on the same row it make another "turkey track" which creates a diamond shaped pattern surrounding the plant.
Further, S-Clips are available to break the diamond pattern for even more aggressive action for removing weeds, breaking the crust, and mulching. This is accomplished by using four S-clips fastened at the first bend in the spring closest to the attaching plate. This bring together more closely, eight of the 12 tines in pairs, leaving a single tine between each pair. The tips of the tines, then, instead of being evenly spaced, are staggered, to create an uneven pattern.
The Spinners may also be set so that the tine action is to the row from the rear of the tines for gentler and different action.
The Spinner is scientifically designed with a 90 degree bend on the tip end of the spring so when it penetrates while moving diagonally across the soil it has a lifting action to remove weeds, break crust, aerate, mulch and single out plants.
Spinners are used before the plants are up to break crusted soil. when the plants are up, Spinners are effective for aerating, weeding and cultivating. In wet soil conditions, Spinners may be used when other tools would gather to much soil.
It is recommended that units be worked at faster that normal cultivating speed - such speed will be determined by trial. It is customary to work these units in third gear and many times fourth gear.
This new self-guiding system for row crops consists of a tilted rubber tire gauge wheel and a companion furrowing shoe. The 8 inch diameter wheel, mounted on the spindle at a 33 degree angle, travels directly ahead of it. Two pairs are used on a 4-row and three pairs on a 6-row 30 inch row spacing cultivator. Two are mounted on either side opposite on the front bar next to the guest row with the tilt facing to the center and two are on the rear bar in the same fashion. For 6-row cultivation the other two are placed in line with the tractor tires in the same fashion as the others.
Most farmers who grow row crops -- whether corn, soybeans, cotton, or vegetables -- can easily adapt this system to their existing 3-point cultivator precisely on the row , it allows him to travel at speeds faster that normal, even when plants are small. The system readily adapts to all types of row crop planting -- whether on beds, ridges, or level ground.
When you come to the field with the 3-point cultivator, you remove the blocks to give the cultivator freedom to swing freely on the 3-point. You then adjust the guide wheels and companion furrowing shoes so the cultivator moves strait down the rows as it's pulled forward. If it tends to veer to the left, you would move the gauge wheels or the furrowers to the right to pull it back so it travels dead center down the rows. Once adjusted, the tilted guide wheels on the side of the cultivator, traveling in grooves made by the companion furrowers mounted just ahead. of them, hold the cultivator in alignment independent of the tractor's exact travel path -- within the "swinging room" distance of the 3- point hitch.
The guidance system is easier to understand if you think of the furrows and guide wheels working together to lay a pair of railroad tracks parallel to the crop rows. The cultivator, riding on these rails, is self-guiding, steering itself with greater accuracy -- even in new emerged crops planted in narrow rows.
The guidance system leaves small tracks in the field. If you want to level the ground between the rows, tools can be added on the rear to eliminate the tracks.
A pull type cultivator usually has wheels to raise it up when turning. Some have runners which cause considerable drag and even wear out. Guide wheels may be mounted where several of the runners are removed to give you precision work with less drag and wear. We all know that fuel is expensive, and the less drag you have the less fuel you use -- a tractor pulling only the tools which are working the soil, is the most efficient.
A pair of tilted guide wheels comes complete with foam-filled rubber tires, standards (including hubs and bearings which are heavy-duty and protected by dust shields.), furrowers, and brackets permit the complete unit to be mounted on a tool bar.
Guide wheels are mounted outside the tractor row because when the soil is wet, the weight of the tractor lowers the depth of the furrow. With the wheels mounted outside the tractor row, the cultivator always stays at the same depth. If using only 2 bars on a 6 or 8 row framework, 1 pair on each side works well.
