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Editorial Note:
We have tried to the best of our ability to
repeat what these individuals have told us about their experiences with our
products and concepts. If you talk with these people and find that what has been
said here is inconsistent with what they told you please let us know. We do not
feel any need to embellish what folks are saying to us about the tines or the
way we are assembling them, including remounting the
Aerway™
tines. So let us know what your experiences are too.
Chris McKinney (Duck Creek Farms)
Hope, Indiana
The Gen-Till™
Harrow is great. It's a good product and it does its job. I wouldn't run a
Gen-Till™ without it. It's well
worth the investment. My only complaint is that I didn't have one of your
harrows two years ago when I bought my 15' Heavy-Duty Gen-Till™
[note: Genesis Tillage™
didn't manufacture rotary harrows two years ago]. I'll just leave it at
that.
Lee Ormiston (Ormiston Ag)
Telephone: 217-466-6585
Address: 4548 N. Terre
Haute Rd., Paris, IL 61944
e-mail:
oag@comwares.net
I bought enough tines to equip the center two rollers on the15 footer that I use
to drag a hose for manure application. I had broken Aerway™ tines in frozen soil
right after learning about the Genesis Tillage products at the National
Machinery Show in 2001.
I decided to give the new
tine a try along with the different way of mounting the tine on the roller
shafts. To test the difference I went on some rolling pastureland on our home
place and applied about 20,000 gallons/acre [of manure]. We watched the water
run downhill off of the area, which had the Aerway™ tines working, and disappear
into the soil where the Gen-Till tines ran. That was it for us. We bought enough
to finish equipping our machine and now I’m looking to buy another used Aerway™
[to upfit with Gen-Till tines] so I can have another one for applying liquid
manure. It’s a totally different machine and far superior to what I was using
before.
Francis Krumenaker (Thumb
Area Irrigation)
Telephone: 989-658-8194
Address: 7509 Verona Rd.,
Ubly, MI 48475
I used to sell Aerway™ and had a continual problem of broken tines. We
custom apply liquid manure with a 16-foot 3-point version of the tool and have
for many years. I installed new tines from Genesis Tillage in the early spring
of 2001 and have about 900 acres on them (12/01). We have not broken any tines
and the tines are only worn about half as much as
the Aerway™ tines would be from the same number of acres.
The most obvious difference
is how the soil takes in the liquid manure. I don’t have to try and mix the
manure into the soil anymore. It used to be that the ground would have that wet
shine to it for hours and hours after application. Now I can see obvious
disappearance of the liquid before getting back to the other end of field.
One of my customers planted
late the same day that I applied 10,000 gallons without any other tillage at
all. It was beautiful.
Darrell Dickerson (DLD
Farms)
Telephone: 207-529-5271
Woodburn, KY
e-mail:
dldfarms@aol.com
I had run my Aerway™ for
about three years and could never get it in the ground over four inches. I
couldn’t put enough iron on it unless it was in the mud. First I only put on
half the number of tines from Genesis Tillage because I didn’t think it would
really make any difference as far as the way the tines were put on. Well it went
right in. So last summer (2001) I fixed the helixes so that they were
mirror-imaged and put on the rest of the Gen-Till tines. It went right into the
ground with no problem. I went right through some wheat in the spring and
it didn’t hurt it a bit.
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