Look what I hauled home

[bx23barry]

It was about all my 1/2 ton pickup wants to haul. 6' wide roller with road wheels in great shape (could use alittle paint). We always called it a ring roller when I was working on the farms but I guess you guys call it a cultipacker. It sure did a great job breaking up the ground and setting new pasture seed in. Hope it grows.

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Ring roller
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[ovrszd]

I've never saw a portable one like that?? What I've saw were all pull type. Very handy piece of equipment for seeding lawns. That one has definitely not been used a lot. Good find Barry!!!

 

[Toolguy]

I have never seen anything like that before. I bet it works well to break up clay lumps, as long as it is dry enough not to ball up. A true cultipacker is not that aggressive. The design is similiar just that a cultipacker will have a smooth or semi-smooth ridge on the individual wheels.

 

[California]

Look what I hauled home

Ebay or Craigslist? I saw that too, and thought a long time before passing it up.

My apple orchard is run by a neighbor jointly with his larger operation next door. He disks the weeds under in the spring then comes back with a ring roller like that to provide a nice walking surface just before harvest season.

It's rough driving my little Subaru down into the orchard before it has been rolled smooth, but after rolling its like a parking lot.

Before / After rolling:

http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/...nature-pics-905209-p1020278rbuckinorchard.jpg

http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/...you-own-suv-738269-img_5814rsubaruorchard.jpg

 

[bx23barry]

I've never saw a portable one like that?? What I've saw were all pull type. Very handy piece of equipment for seeding lawns. That one has definitely not been used a lot. Good find Barry!!!

Me either but the wheels sure make it handy. My little bx23 fel won't even start top lift it and it gave my engine hoist a workout getting it out of the truck. really for seeding or unlumping anything.

 

[bx23barry]

I have never seen anything like that before. I bet it works well to break up clay lumps, as long as it is dry enough not to ball up. A true cultipacker is not that aggressive. The design is similiar just that a cultipacker will have a smooth or semi-smooth ridge on the individual wheels.

This kind of roller is pretty common here in the valley. It might also called a pulverizer but I always heard it called a ring roller. I haven't seen many of the smoother ones out here that seem to be common in the east. Might be that the summers here are dry so clumping/balling up isn't an issue. I does do a graet job breaking up and smoothing the surface along with setting seed.

 

[bx23barry]

Ebay or Craigslist? I saw that too, and thought a long time before passing it up.

My apple orchard is run by a neighbor jointly with his larger operation next door. He disks the weeds under in the spring then comes back with a ring roller like that to provide a nice walking surface just before harvest season.

It's rough driving my little Subaru down into the orchard before it has been rolled smooth, but after rolling its like a parking lot.

Before / After rolling:

http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/...nature-pics-905209-p1020278rbuckinorchard.jpg

http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/...you-own-suv-738269-img_5814rsubaruorchard.jpg

I bought it off ebay. I have been looking for a 4' one but this one was too good a deal to pass up. The bx23 pulls it with no trouble in two wheel high and it just fits through my 8' gates.