Width of corn rows for cultivation

[paul]

Most cultivators are about infinitely adjustable so that is the least of your worries. Forgot to answer on the implement you asked about!

30 inch if you can, 38 inch if you have to, an oddball size will give you headaches someday trying to get help with harvest.

Paul
 

[Leroy]

Wheel tread is always measured from center to center of tire, This is same even if you havs small tire on one side and larger on other, Only thing not measured like that would be back axle of a dual wheel truck. And on your tractor it is even inches devided by 4 as the spacing is changed for each setting by 4 inches, 2 inches to each side. So you tractor wheel spacing will be 48 inches, hardly ever used. 52 inch normal and what it takes for your plow, Next setting is 56 inches, so go up one more setting to 60 inches and that is what you want for 30 inch rows. That will be same if you have a 10 inch or a 20 inch wide tire because it will keep the row on each side of tire same distance from tire. Now if for some reason you would need a 36 inch, 38 inch or 40 in row for that varity of corn due to its size then you would need to go up to the 72 inch tread width as the tractor will only adjust to that width. Not the 80 inch as a lot of tractors could be adjusted to. Come May my Ford will have been with me for 79 years, it is a 44 model 2N Ford but I also have a 41 9N Ford tractor. And I have cultivated a lot of corn in 40 inch, 36 inch and 30 inch rows with it. And also the 2 bottom plow that came same day as the 2N tractor. As far as seed you just have to buy what you can get and try fitting the corn to your plates and if it does not fit, Round seed and flat seed will not work in same plate buy s new set of the closest size to the largest seed .of either a flat or a round kernel. If only mixed flat and round you might have to set at table and sort the flat kernels from the round kernels And might have to use a flat plate in one box and a round plate in the other. 60+ years ago I had to learn all this. You can do it as well.
 

[Leroy]

You cannot get a 58 inch track with that tractor unless you have one wheel set 2 inches farther out than the other. The Fords are not like other tractors So a> 12.4 tire that you should have, 1 inch bigger than it came from factory with would give you a 47 inch between side walls or 73 inches to outside of side walls. And the belly of the Ford tractor is not high enough off the ground to cultivate a single row at a time. And as narrow as it could be set the tire on the outside to next row would only be 23 inches to the next row, too close, if trying to plant 28 inch rows that would be only 22 inches to next row.
 

[560Dennis]

Like the choice of bloody butcher, got some (small) seeds of that to try also