Look What I Found

jwillett · Jun 2, 2009

Found this with pine trees growing through it at the farm. My father-in-law must of set it out of the way for some reason and forgot it. It was the first use of my FEL on my new MF 1532 to get this thing out of the trees.

Jim

Ivan1547 · Jun 3, 2009

Nice homemade cultivator.
Hook it up on your 3 point hitch and go for it...I bet it works.

jinman · Jun 3, 2009

That's cool, especially if your FIL made it. It looks like it could use a little more bracing if used in rocky soil to prevent twisting of the channel iron, but you can't beat that for free. Nice find!

jwillett · Jun 3, 2009

I did try it but the you can see some of the feet turned around during use. They are held in place by a wedge type holder but some use u- bolts. My FIL was a great man but not too handy with a wrench LOL so not sure where it came from. I will tell you this, I dropped it down too deep once and it stopped my 1532 in 4wd, almost sunk the tractor before I could get the clutch in.

We have mostly sand and black sandy mud at the farm so no rock at all.

Jim

LBrown59 · Jun 4, 2009

jwillett said:
Found this with pine trees growing through it at the farm. My father-in-law must of set it out of the way for some reason and forgot it. It was the first use of my FEL on my new MF 1532 to get this thing out of the trees.
Jim

How long ya reckon it sat there?

jwillett · Jun 4, 2009

LBrown59 said:
How long ya reckon it sat there?

Not sure but the trees growing up through it were about 8" in Dia. I do know that it had not been used in over 28 years as I did help my FIL with the garden when my wife and I first got married and we never used it.

Jim

Johndeere3720 · Jun 8, 2009

Nice find. I wish that was in my shop.

Have fun and stay safe.

LBrown59 · Jun 8, 2009

jwillett said:
Not sure but the trees growing up through it were about 8" in Dia. I do know that it had not been used in over 28 years as I did help my FIL with the garden when my wife and I first got married and we never used it.Jim

http://i283.photobucket.com/albums/kk286/lb59/photos033.jpg
I found this on the upper left corner of my property back in 1971 and used it to smoth out the whole 2.33 acres after getting it all graded off that year.
Put it in this Car Port that day in 71 after finshing up with it where it has set for the past 38 years.