Help with this old cultivator!

   / Help with this old cultivator! #1  

Apsterbobed

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The pins are recessed above the front of the cultivator. When I attach the lift arms they hit the angle iron when I only lift it a few inches off the ground. This is how it was assembled when I got it, is it assembled wrong?

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   / Help with this old cultivator! #2  
Maybe you can use it without connecting the top link,, the cultivator would lift by hitting the three point lift arms,,,

kinda a throw back to the early lift systems on some tractors,,
a two point lift,,,
 
   / Help with this old cultivator! #3  
The pins are recessed above the front of the cultivator. When I attach the lift arms they hit the angle iron when I only lift it a few inches off the ground. This is how it was assembled when I got it, is it assembled wrong?

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I think the brackets that hold the pin for the 3 point hitch are backwards, the angle iron is probably not original, and maybe not be needed if the brackets are reversed (left to right, and from outside to inside)
And maybe the bottom holes of the "A" connect to the pin bolts as well.
 
   / Help with this old cultivator! #4  
The bottom pins normally line up with the top pin from front to back. Might be an indicator of which way the brackets should be assembled.
 
   / Help with this old cultivator! #5  
I think the brackets that hold the pin for the 3 point hitch are backwards, the angle iron is probably not original, and maybe not be needed if the brackets are reversed (left to right, and from outside to inside)
And maybe the bottom holes of the "A" connect to the pin bolts as well.

Google pictures of furgeson cultivators and there's a bunch of pictures showing just that...

ferguson cultivator - Google Search

But there are also a bunch showing it just as the OP has it pictured. Interesting.
 
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These pics may be of some help, or not. :)

Edit: Almost makes me think that the bracket can be mounted either way.
 

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Hmmmmmmmm,,,,,,,,,,,,:confused2:

This is how it looked when I got it. The flat bar that runs front to back was broken on one side and on the other the lift pins was missing. I replaced the flat bar with angle iron because that's what was in my garage. When I replaced the lift pins I had to move the top pin bar back because I was unable to drill them to match the new liftpin bolt size. I didn't try turning the bracket down I will give that a try, but I did turn them so they face out and the way they sit inside the tool bar the bolt holes don't line up. The exploded view is great but it looks like they use a better bracket on that model!
 
   / Help with this old cultivator! #9  
The cultivator May have been designed for an older tractor on which the lift arms are mounted much higher.
 
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Looks like to me the arm with orange arrows are on the wrong side of angle bar, that angle bar top lip needs to be cut off or replace with 3/8" flat bar, and the front arm needs to be on same front pin bolt.

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