7 Footed Spring Tooth Ripper

[hunterridgefarm]

Going to estate auction Saturday and trying to determine size of these rippers before I go.
The aucton paper calls out, 7 footed spring tooth ripper. What size do you think this would be...5'? Sometimes auction papers don't list things very clear so this could be a 7' ripper.

The gentleman had a MF 135 diesel, what HP is a 135... and I can determine the size of the ripper if someone can tell me the HP.

Other 3PH attachments I plan to bid on: 2 moleboard plow, one row corn planter, rock rake, Ford 6' scrape blade, post hole digger, sprayer.
Hard to say what these are worth since I have not seen them, but if they were in good condition what do you think they would be worth?

Main items I am interested in is the rippers and 2 moleboard plow, I figure if the plow is in good condition it should be worth $250-$350...?

Couple of other things for auction besides tools, welders, etc is Allis Chalmers B12 lawn tractor with front blade, and Farmall Cub with cultivators and planters and the MF 135.

 

[JerryG]

I would say that it is a 6-7' field cultivator.

 

[beenthere]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( I would say that it is a 6-7' field cultivator. )</font>

To me a field cultivator and a spring-tooth ripper are two different things. /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif

 

[unreconstructed]

I was digging through the weeds in my pasture last week end to find a implement my Dad made when I was a kid for chiseling out the pasture. I found the thing--it looked like a toolbar off an old 4 row cultivator. It looks like he bolted the shanks from a four row planter onto it and then the spring loaded feet off the cultivator onto the shanks. Seems like he might have also used just the opening plows off the planter instead of the cultivator feet for chiseling--not sure why the cultivator feet were on there unless he used it for plowing out the turning row. At any rate, I can't see how the cultivator feet are going to do much ripping. /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif

If I have got off base to the original poster, my apologies. /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif

 

[JerryG]

They are called different things in different areas of the country.

 

[have_blue]

"Springtooth Ripper" sounds like an oxymoron. Maybe a springtooth harrow or springtooth cultivator.

 

[sweettractors]

We sell the "Fred Cain" Line of Implements and they call this a Field Cultivator, however, most of our customers call them a ripper or tiller. 9 shank model is shown is 7 ft wide and will load a MF 135 (40 hp tractor) pretty good.--Ken Sweet

sweet@scrtc.com

 

[JerryG]

That's funny. Actually growing up all I ever heard them called was a tiller. If you say tiller on TBN, EVERYONE thinks that you are talking about a rotary tiller.

 

[rambler]

Well by golly Ken! I just saw one of those implements in a little 'used for sale' corner stand this week, and had never seen anything like it. Was wondering what it was, got my interest. Not much of that newer small equipment has made it up this way to southern MN. There is so much old junk iron sitting in groves, no one bothers with the new iron.

Thanks. That machine puzzled me, couldn't tell if it was a field cultivator or a chisel plow of some kind. To this farmer, it looks somewhere in between. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

What hp would be recommended for one of those units?

--->Paul

 

[sweettractors]

<font color="blue"> If you say tiller on TBN, EVERYONE thinks that you are talking about a rotary tiller. </font>

Tiller is what we have called them here in Ky for as long as I can recall. Like you say on TBN there is a lot of terms for this implement--Ken Sweet

Sweet Farm Equipment LLC's New Toll Free Phone # for Freight Quotes 1-866-528-3323*

 

[sweettractors]

<font color="blue"> What hp would be recommended for one of those units? </font>

About 40 HP for 9 shanks--Ken Sweet

 

[hunterridgefarm]

("Springtooth Ripper" sounds like an oxymoron. Maybe a springtooth harrow or springtooth cultivator.)


Exactly... I know cultivators and springtooth harrows. The "springtooth ripper is whats a little confusing. I was thinking it would be something like sweettractor posted a picture of, which is what I need.

The "7 footed" could mean 7' wide or it has 7 tines which would be around 5' wide...I think.

I guess I will just have to wait till Saturday and see. But I need the 2 moleboard plow and rippers.

 

[hunterridgefarm]

"That's funny. Actually growing up all I ever heard them called was a tiller."

Jerry,
All I have ever heard them called around here is rippers. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif Most of the dealerships have them for sale. Once the ground has been worked several years you can use the "rippers" instead of "turning plows"(another term for my area). I was getting ready to buy a set when I received the auction paper.

Funny how implements are called different things in different parts of the country.

I have heard them called field cultivators but never tillers. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[HobbleCreek]

That looks like the implement that I saw in the barnyard the other day and was going to try to get a picture of for the "pasture retorvator" thread. The only difference is that the one I saw was a bit rusty.

What's the difference in function between this "tiller" or "field cultivator" and a pasture renovator?

-- Grant

 

[sweettractors]

<font color="blue"> The only difference is that the one I saw was a bit rusty. </font>

We have a few of those also. They do indeed, make excellent renovating tools--Ken Sweet

 

[unreconstructed]

Being off a West Texas cotton farm, I can say I never saw one of those rascals either. Learn something everyday from TBN. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[willfick]

A couple of weeks ago the hunt club guys had me weld the top link bracket back onto a five footed one of those. They called it a scarifier, but they're not farmers, either.
Wm

 

[ihuntbear]

will that rip up roots to or just earth