CULTI-PACKER (help and pics)

[RollTideRam]

Here is what I found last year. It needs some work, but I got to use it today and I like it.

 

[rambler]

We were discussing this in a different forum, & it seems tmiller has a little different deal - his is not a culti packer, but a culti-weeder (or what does it say on the endcap picture again?). Works more like a rotory hoe. Too bad he didn't clean those leaves out a little better, I'd like to see those wheels.

'Here' you can buy a single cultipacker for $120-500, typically $250.

Would love to relell them for 10x that. Mine was the main large section, with 2 wings that can be set as a double, or out to the end for a wider single deal. Was $120, pretty easy to make new wooden bearings & buy 4 big washers. Good to go.

Never saw this weeder type - bet they don't like wet clay soils?

--->Paul

 

[Egon]

We were discussing this in a different forum, & it seems tmiller has a little different deal - his is not a culti packer, but a culti-weeder (or what does it say on the endcap picture again?). Works more like a rotory hoe. Too bad he didn't clean those leaves out a little better, I'd like to see those wheels.

Taylor, you have what we called a cable weeder. There are cables between the wheels that dig into the ground when the wheels turn and bring the weeds/plants roots and all up to the surface and sorta lay them out so they dry out and die.

These are used on well cultivated ground to allow the cables to dig into the ground.

In the area where I grew up it was common practice to let a fields lie fallow for a summer for weed control. When doing this the field was kept black by regular cultivation. Cable weeders and rod weeders as we called them were some of the more common implements used as they didn't pull hard for the width of ground covered.

The last picture of the implement shows one of the wheels the cables were supported by very well. I can't remember the spacing of the wheels but somewhere around four to six feet may have about right?

 

[Farmwithjunk]

Taylor, you have what we called a cable weeder. There are cables between the wheels that dig into the ground when the wheels turn and bring the weeds/plants roots and all up to the surface and sorta lay them out so they dry out and die.

These are used on well cultivated ground to allow the cables to dig into the ground.

In the area where I grew up it was common practice to let a fields lie fallow for a summer for weed control. When doing this the field was kept black by regular cultivation. Cable weeders and rod weeders as we called them were some of the more common implements used as they didn't pull hard for the width of ground covered.

The last picture of the implement shows one of the wheels the cables were supported by very well. I can't remember the spacing of the wheels but somewhere around four to six feet may have about right?

Same/simular type generally known as a "ROD WEEDER" in many areas............

 

[Egon]

Same/simular type generally known as a "ROD WEEDER" in many areas............

There is quite a difference in the way they are made and operate.

 

[Dargo]

There is quite a difference in the way they are made and operate.

Careful now, you are about to receive your lesson...

 

[foggy1111]

Hmmm.....I wonder what I'm going to see on Saturday.....a cultipacker or a "rodder"?

I havnt seen it yet....but had a young guy call me from a WTB I had on Craig's List for a cultipacker.....said he had two four footers and an 8 footer to sell and he was told what he had was some kind of cultipacker....but wasnt too sure what it was.

From the descriptions above it could be that I'm going to see a "weed rodder" instead of a cultipacker. I guess the smooth wheels and a cable will be the tell tale signs. I always thought that cultipackers had wheels with some "cross-hatches" in the castings.

Also.......long ago, around my parts......we had what was called a "western land roller" (not sure if "western" was a brand?) that looked pretty similar to what were discussing. Is a land roller more of a cultipacker or a rodder?

[B]So....I got some questions. Can a weed rodder be made to operate as a cultipacker? [/B]

Or if I buy a weed rodder will I just be spinning my wheels? (pun intented )

Oh.....and for the record....I've always thought that some of the best and most knowledgeable information I have read on TBN has come from FWJ. I think his experience gives him a bit of license to add a little sarcasm to his posts where needed. As they say: if you cant stand the heat....stay out of the kitchen.

 

[spruce Deere]

Well foggy, around here a land roller is just that. A big smooth drum built to various widths, you fill with water for added wieght and "role over the land" befor or after, some do it differently, of seeding grass, alfalfa, canola or anything elts I spoze. A rod weeder or rodder you describe, would be a poor canidate for a cultipacker In my book. They work under the ground, not made to "pack" but to more or less "fluff" and weed at the same time. Some pull harrows behind a rod weeder to aid in its light till action. Depending on the wieght of a packer, one could pull a packer or packers behind a rod weeder in tandem though....in the right soil conditions.

 

[pitt_md]

I think the two of you (FWJ and Dargo) need to sit down and have beer. I bet if the two of you sat down talked about the price of equipemnt face to face there would be no hard feelings/need to defend everything you say.

 

[Egon]

Careful now, you are about to receive your lesson...

Oh heck, I've been through that sequence quite a few times and survived quite nicely. Happens I have worked with a cable weeder and Rod Weeder's were very common so I do know the difference! The Cable Weeders are from my "Outdated Knowledge" era!

There is a big difference been a "Rod Weeder" and a Culti Packer" . completely different use. Do a goggle check.