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The HD-12 Hydraulic Post Driver from Shaver Mfg. Co,
Shaver Mfg. adds
hydraulic post driver
GRAETTINGER, IA - The new
Shaver™ HD-12 Hydraulic Post
Driver rams posts into the ground
in one third the time or less than
the original.
With a square post capacity of
10-7/8”, the new HD-12 drives ties
or corner posts up to 10’ long with
ease. 100,000 lbs. impact at full
stroke assures better, faster
performance.
It takes just seconds to set a post
-even corner posts-in a single,
fingertip-easy operation.
More tilt (25° side/side, 20°
front/back) and hydraulic controls
make it faster, easier to plumb
posts with the new Shaver™ HD-12.
A heavy duty package, including
replaceable sealed roller bearing
Heisey completes auction course
KANSAS CITY, MO. - Enos B.
Heisey, Valley Road, Mt. Gretna,
recently completed the course in
Auctioneering and Auction Sales
Management at Missouri Auction
School.
He received his diploma and the
honorary title of Colonel along with
men and women auctioneers from
throughout the United States,
Canada, Australia, and South
Africa.
The concentrated two-week
course is conducted by Missouri
Auction School at the World’s
largest auction training center in
the Kansas City Stoddards. His
training included lectures and
workshops featuring prominent
auctioneers from throughout
America.
He participated in selling
numerous public auctions in
Kansas City and nearby com
munities in Missouri and Kansas.
Subjects covered included an
tique auctions, livestock, fur
niture, business liquidations, real
estate, rare coin, auto, machinery,
general merchandise, all types of
estate auctions, and the rapid fire
chant of the tobacco auctioneer.
Heisey is a native of Lebanon
County and recently retired from
Agway Inc.,-Syracuse, Nev. York,
as manager of public-agricultural
relations.
guides and inserts to extend spring
life, is standard.
Both the sealed roller bearing*
guides and similar hydraulic
controls to plumb posts are offered
as retrofit options for the two
smaller Shaver™ Drivers which
remain in the line.
A new Three-Point Assembly is
adjustable from 25.0 to 40.5 inches
to assure a snug installation. The
new HD-12 is offered as a rear
mounted unit only; the earlier HD
-8 and HD-10 are available for
either front or rear mount.
For further information on
Shaver™ Drivers-or Diggers and
Deepßßipß® Minimum Till Plow
Points-write Shaver Mfg. Co., PO
Box 358, Graettinger, IA 51342...0r
phone 712-859-3293.
Enos B. Heisey
Agway offers new oil-heating unit
SYRACUSE, NY - A new one
of-a-kind oil heating unit for forced
air furnaces is being offered by
Agway Energy Products in the
northeastern United States.
The Eneroil Comforter Furnace
and Comfort Plus flue gas con
densing imit can cut fuel con
sumption oy as much as 50%.
Through a unique patented design,
the unit utilizes almost all the heat
normally lost up the chimney in
conventional heating systems. In
fact, so little heat is lost, that a
chimney is not necessary. Com
bustion by-products are merely
vented to an outside wall by a
Gehl hay rake is gentler, more thorough
WEST BEND, WI - Gehl
Company’s new Model 207
fingerwheel hay rake features a
unique design that provides faster
and more complete raking and
gentler hay handling than ordinary
parallel bar rakes.
“The exclusive fingerwheel
design-with overlapping finger
wheels-lets you get all your crop.
And you get it clean because the
long, flexible spring steel tines
provide a finer combing action,”
says Jim Phillips, hay tools
product manager.
The innovative design of the
tines produces a “caterpillar”
effect which lets them “walk” over
the ground, gently combing' the
hay rather than brushing through
it. “The individual tines walk
around rocks and other obstacles
and go into depressions to get all
the hay, even on the roughest
ground,” says Phillips.
The closely-spaced tines radiate
from center hubs, eliminating
wind break effect, allowing dust to
drift through. They flex along their
entire length. “As a result, they
last much longer than short, rigid
tines,” Phillips notes. “And no
accessory wind guards are
required to prevent crops from
tangling around the wheel hubs.”
Phillips emphasizes that the
spring-loaded fingerwheels follow
the contours of the ground in
dependently of each other and of
the mam frame. This design
Manure separation system developed
PARIS, Tx. - Agpro, Inc. an
nounces the development of a
complete manure waste
separation system.
A company spokesman explains,
“The new systems approach starts
with our proven 7200 series manure
solids separator and reclaimers.
To each size separator reclaimer,
we mate a manure slurry pumping
plant of the same capacity. These
pumping units incorporate our
automatic recycle agitation and
self-cleaning features.”
When the manure slurry
reception pit fills to a predeter
mined level, the slurry pump
comes on by float switch.
For the first 120 seconds of pump
operation, the full discharge of the
pump recycle to provide pit
agitation. The controller then
diverts the pump flow to the
separator.
When the reception pit is
pumped out, the pump shuts down
Think weed control year ‘round
CHICAGO - “The trouble we
have with a lot of qur herbicides is
that they take out the early weeds,
but don’t stand up later in the
season,” says Dr. Richard
Behrens, a weed scientist at the
University of Minnesota.
While many pre-emergence
herbicides are effective at con
trolling weeds that appear early in
the season, postemergence
treatments may be necessary for
control of late-emerging weeds,
small plastic pipe.
The new unit is a proven per
former under even the harshest on
winter-time conditions. For the
past several years, units have been
tested by home owners in Canada
and the Northeast. Results show
that up to 95 cents of every fuel
dollar is used to heat their homes.
This compares from 60 cents to 80
cents with more conventional
units.
The Eneroil systems are sup
plied in the United States by the
Enerßoyal Technologies Cor
poration, a new company based in
Syracuse, NY.
The fingerwheel action of Gehl Company's new Model 207
hay rake provides faster, more complete raking than ordinary
parallel bar rakes.
feature greatly reduces extreme
“bouncing” at high speeds.
Raking width and transport
adjustments are made by
positioning the drawbar and the
left hand wheel. Adjustments can
be made on the rake drawbar to
position the rake behind the
tractor. And four wheel settings
provide a choice of raking widths.
A hydraulic cylinder, operated
from the tractor seat, raises all
fingerwheels to transport position
The 7200 Series Manure separation system from Agpro,
Inc.
and activates the automatic Agpro’s toll-free number, 1-800-527-
cleanup system. The system is now 1030, or write Agpro, Inc., Rt. 7,
ready for the next pumping. Box 100, Paris, Texas 7,5460.
For more information, call
such as velvetleaf, giant ragweed
and black nightshade. This is
especially true in no-till or reduced
tillage, where lower soil tem
peratures under heavy surface
residue can delay the emergence
of large-seeded broadleaf weeds.
Steve Hudson, an independent
crop consultant in Rochelle, HI.,
says residual, along with con
sistency of control and crop
tolerance, should be considered
when planning a herbicide
program. He recommends far
mers. start with a good pre
emergence herbicide for grass
control, followed by a
postemergence herbicide for
broadleaf weed control.
Popular programs include a pre
emergence application of Lasso or
Dual, possibly mixed with
atrazine, Bladex or a combination
of the two for grasses, followed by
Banvel herbicide or 2, 4-D early
postemergence foP broadleaf
control.
Since its introduction in 1947,2,4-
D has been widely used. But
Hudson cautions that 2, 4-D can
cause brittleness in corn, making it
more susceptible to stand
reduction from wind or cultivation.
It also lacks residual control.
George Hoffmann, Velsicol
or lowers them to working position.
All wheels lower and raise at the
same time.
Two models are available: one
with seven fingerwheels and a
raking width of 12 feet; and one
with nine fingerwheels and a
raking width of 15 feet.
For additional information on
the new Model 207 fingerwheel hay
rake, contact Richard Burckardt,
Gehl Company, West Bend, WI
53095, (414) 334-9461.
Chemical Corporation Product
Development field representative,
Urbana HI., adds, “2, 4-D applied
too early doesn’t have any residual
control for late-emerging weeds,
like velvetleaf. But late ap
plications of 2, 4-D are likely to
stress com.”
Hudson, Hoffmann and Dr..
Behrens recommend applying 1
pint of Banvel herbicide when com
is spike-to-5 inches tall for
broadleaf weed control.
“Banvel will kill weeds emerged
at the time of application, and it
offers control until com forms a
canopy to shade out weeds on its
own, ’ ’ explains Hoffmann.
Hudson says the 5 to 10 percent
yield loss caused by velvetleaf or
other later-emerging weeds more
than justifies the higher-priced
treatment with Banvel herbicide.
Hudson concludes that return on
investment -getting full-season
weed control, crop safety and
consistent performance-is the
factor that should dictate a good,
planned weed control program.
“Banvel at 1 pint per acre gives
growers a good return on their
herbicide investment, says
Hudson. “At the full-pint rate, I
can’t recall seeing any failures.
We’ve never had to re-treat
fields.”