RobJ
Elite Member
I finally got to use my will fit, homemade, sort of subsoiler/cultivator thing this weekend. I'll try and describe the pics. While in my home state of Mississippi early this year I was at my uncles place, corn, cotton, bean farmer. He had this huge pile of old farm metal. I dug out some sweepers, cultivators, steel and hauled them home. I made this sort of utility bar (4x4x3/8" tubing) for the cultivators, subsoilers, and a middle buster. Basically just square holes in the tubing where the L's fit in, a bolt keeps them from comming out. The funky contraptions sticking up and on top of the bar are just weights. The part itself is upside down. You can see on top where the sweepers(plows) would go. The sort of doged leg arm just below is where the guide (leveling) wheel would go. This helps the plow follow the ground. The spin handle is to adjust the depth. But again I'm just using them for weights.
Since there is no flex like the $210 KingKutter cultivators you see at TSC I guess this is really sort of a subsoiler thing. They don't flex, the tractor will stop if they dig in to much. The ground is a river bottom type clay and I could only use 3 at a time. I wanted to break up the soil to let moisture in and I will bring the disk back in on Labor day to chop it up and plant the rye or whatever. These are deer food plots.
All in all the tractor did what I wanted to. But I wonder how one of those KingKutter cultivators would work with 6 tines. Maybe the spring action would keep them from digging to deep. Make no mistake that these little tractors have some limitations. In sand I could have pulled all five pretty easy. This area was disked up last year and that probably helped. Some other areas I tried I could have maybe gotten 2 in the ground, about 4-6" deep. But fun to load up my little L!
If nothing else I hope you enjoy the tractor pics!!
Rob
Since there is no flex like the $210 KingKutter cultivators you see at TSC I guess this is really sort of a subsoiler thing. They don't flex, the tractor will stop if they dig in to much. The ground is a river bottom type clay and I could only use 3 at a time. I wanted to break up the soil to let moisture in and I will bring the disk back in on Labor day to chop it up and plant the rye or whatever. These are deer food plots.
All in all the tractor did what I wanted to. But I wonder how one of those KingKutter cultivators would work with 6 tines. Maybe the spring action would keep them from digging to deep. Make no mistake that these little tractors have some limitations. In sand I could have pulled all five pretty easy. This area was disked up last year and that probably helped. Some other areas I tried I could have maybe gotten 2 in the ground, about 4-6" deep. But fun to load up my little L!
If nothing else I hope you enjoy the tractor pics!!
Rob
