cultipacker smooth or sprockets?

[dixie306]

I've got a cultipacker with smooth rollers and wondering if I should have ordered one with sprocket rollers, I plant 99% small seed, clovers and alfalfa, is there really a big difference in the job they do?

 

[Farmwithjunk]

I've got a cultipacker with smooth rollers and wondering if I should have ordered one with sprocket rollers, I plant 99% small seed, clovers and alfalfa, is there really a big difference in the job they do?

The smooth rollers do a better job of firming soil. The toothed rollers do a better job of crushing dirt clods. Difference is marginal at most. 6 of one, half dozen of another.... Both will do a satisfactory job 99% of the time.

 

[flusher]

I've got a cultipacker with smooth rollers and wondering if I should have ordered one with sprocket rollers, I plant 99% small seed, clovers and alfalfa, is there really a big difference in the job they do?

The sprokets and rollers on my cultipacker are removable. I'm guessing that's the same with yours.

So, if you're up to some disassembly, you can experiment with the two options. If you remove the sprokets you'll have to add a few rollers, which I assume you can find at your local used farm equipment place.

 

[dixie306]

The sprokets and rollers on my cultipacker are removable. I'm guessing that's the same with yours.

So, if you're up to some disassembly, you can experiment with the two options. If you remove the sprokets you'll have to add a few rollers, which I assume you can find at your local used farm equipment place.

Mine's only the smooth rollers, the cultipacker's leinbach offers looks different than yours does, on the ones with sprockets, the rollers look "flatter"

 

[Farmwithjunk]

There's not all that much "technology" involved in a cultipacker. They're sort of like a hammer. One may be shaped a little different that the next, but they'll both smash your thumb when you hit it. The best of the "old names" in cultipackers were Brillion and Dunham. It wasn't all that long ago, auctioneers couldn't get a bid on one at most sales. Now I see 'em selling sometimes north of $1000 for a good one.

 

[dixie306]

There's not all that much "technology" involved in a cultipacker. They're sort of like a hammer. One may be shaped a little different that the next, but they'll both smash your thumb when you hit it. The best of the "old names" in cultipackers were Brillion and Dunham. It wasn't all that long ago, auctioneers couldn't get a bid on one at most sales. Now I see 'em selling sometimes north of $1000 for a good one.

Yep, I'd love to find a double roller brillion on a three point hitch, but as you said, those are a thing of the past. the few I have found are all WAY "up north"