Towed Cultipacker Vs. 3-Pt. Lift Cultipacker - Advantages / Disadvantages?

[HCJtractor]

That is one nice packer!!! When do you use it in the discing/planting sequence?? I expect after you disc and again after you broadcast seed (unless you use a drill). My planned build will be similar except with only one set of rollers. Who makes that? I am sure it cost thousands, but is the best looking one I have ever seen. Are you comfortable pulling it down the highway for short trips?

[sixdogs]

It's is a 1960's Brillion and is still made pretty much the same but are very expensive new. Used ones are much cheaper with the smaller ones actually costing more than a bigger size. It is a secondary tillage tool in that after the ground is initially worked it is used to bring things down to a seedbed basis. Then I use a seeding packer to put down the seed. Fields come out looking like a pancake if you do it right. I'll try to get a pic over the next few days.
No problem pulling it down the road since it's only maybe 9 ft wide. I'm only on back roads and have the pulling vehicle is followed by another and both have flashers on.

[jeff9366]

SIXDOGS:

It looks like the Loch Ness monster, Nessie.

SOME RIG !

You know of what you write.

[jeff9366]

I visited the Brillion web site for the first time.
Looked at the Brillion "Pulverizer" Model PP.
Model PP web page states: "floating three point hitch linkage" Unfortunately, no detailed photo.
Available in both 3-Point and Towed models.
If Brillion displays at the Sunbelt Ag Expo I will check out floating hitch linkage on 3-Pt. model.

I am going to the Sunbelt Ag Expo to GET SMARTER.....

[sweettractors]

I am going to the Sunbelt Ag. Expo in Moultrie, Georgia October 16-17-18, 2012. I will be there one of the three days.

At top of my shopping list is a CULTIPACKER.

There are a lot of TBN posts on Cultipackers but none comparing efficiency/effectiveness of Towed Cultipackers against 3-Pt. Lift Cultipackers.

It is evident most of the older Cultipackers were towed but a lot of the current offerings are designed for the 3-Point Hitch. Why this change in emphasis?

I am in North Florida. Sandy-Loam, only rocks soft limerock. My tractor is a Kubota B3300SU 33-hp / 1,800 pounds.

Using my 'Bush Hog' Rollover Box Blade there are some issues with the tool going UP when the tractor wheels encounter a LOW spot or a hole; and vice versa. Same issue probable with a 3-Pt. Lift Cultipacker?

(Ken? Ted? Are you out there?)

PLEASE MAKE ME SMARTER. ( Starting low; should not be too difficult.)

The towed cultipacker will follow the ground better and not be jerked around by the tractor 3 point hitch. If you need to move down the highway to different food plots, a 3 point would be the best. Ken Sweet

[sixdogs]

I visited the Brillion web site for the first time.
Looked at the Brillion "Pulverizer" Model PP.
Model PP web page states: "floating three point hitch linkage" Unfortunately, no detailed photo.
Available in both 3-Point and Towed models.
If Brillion will be at the Sunbelt Ag Expo I will check out this implement. Available in 5' model for my tractor....likely $$$$.

I am going to the Sunbelt Ag Expo to LEARN.....

You likely won't see any floating hitch anything. Best bet is to look at the website and learn how to make a connecting link yourself. Buy a standard packer and roll your own. Better bet is to buy a pull-type packer and find a picture of that pull type with a 3-pt hitch welded on to it. It's on the TBN somewhere and you can have the best of both.
It's not hard to spend $5,000 to $10,000 on anything Brillion and even that won't buy much. Their six ft overseeder is $24,000 and cultimulchers start at $13,000 and go to infinity. You'll be learning, allright and lesson one is don't give up the day job.

[sweettractors]

Used 6 ft Pull Type Cultipacker, CAN SHIP CHEAP items in Sweetfarmequipment store on eBay!

Above are several of our reworked Brillion cultipackers priced at a fraction of what a new one costs. Ken Sweet

[sixdogs]

This is not exactly the photo I wanted but shows how to add a 3 pt hitch to an older packer. In this photo the front hitch had been removed but an earlier photo I saw had the front tongue left on. You could shorten the tongue or make it hingable or detachable and you then have a way to transport the packer and yet use it as a pull-type when you get where you are going.

[sweettractors]

This is not exactly the photo I wanted but shows how to add a 3 pt hitch to an older packer. In this photo the front hitch had been removed but an earlier photo I saw had the front tongue left on. You could shorten the tongue or make it hingable or detachable and you then have a way to transport the packer and yet use it as a pull-type when you get where you are going.

That is one of our Brillion's that we have added a three point hitch to. We do leave the factory pull hitch on, if the customer requests. The Combo hitch gives you both ways to pull a cultipacker. Ken Sweet

[Missouri Pioneer]

Ken Sweet, can a double axle 8' Brillion be converted to a three point hitch - if so, picture, please - or have an axle with wheels mounted up top to flip over (too heavy?)

PLUS, where do you get Brillion parts these days?

Thanks.