7 Footed Spring Tooth Ripper

hunterridgefarm · Nov 8, 2005

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 · Nov 8, 2005

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

beenthere · Nov 8, 2005

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

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

unreconstructed · Nov 8, 2005

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 · Nov 8, 2005

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

have_blue · Nov 8, 2005

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

sweettractors · Nov 8, 2005

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

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JerryG · Nov 8, 2005

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 · Nov 8, 2005

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 · Nov 8, 2005

If you say tiller on TBN, EVERYONE thinks that you are talking about a rotary tiller. 

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

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