cutivator help

[Ricn]

What can the experts tell me about this old cultivator? my Son brought it to me along with an old Ford 8N and other attachments he got for free when buying a used Kubota excavator from a Widow Lady close by. I don't need the stuff but he wanted somewhere to park it so our farm is the dumping place although I might have fun with the tractor that has a loader on it. We worked on it for 4-5 hrs after wash job doing the oil, tuneup parts etc and she fired right up, pretty good for not running for 3 years..The cultivator has a

sticker or tag, says Italy on the bottom but hard to read. The unit is very strong looking, nothing cheap about it and quite heavy when I picked it up with the loader. It's close to 5ft long, has big springs on top, two rows of the teeth. Dismiss the leaves as it was under a tree...


teeth.

 

[jeff9366]

Your pictures show a nine shank All Purpose Plow, one of the first implements designed by Harry Ferguson for the Harry Ferguson patented Three Point Hitch.

Dirt Dog - All Purpose Plow / Field Cultivator REVIEW + PICTURES

Dirt Dog All Purpose Plow / Field Cultivator Dirt Dog Model APP 66-5 Total Width 66", Working Width 62", Five Tines, Weight 284 Pounds, Paid $835.00 (2010) Field Cultivator: A Three Point Hitch mounted, secondary tillage implement, used to perform operations such as soil aeration...

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To draw this nine shank plow 10" deep through moist ground you will need a 5,000 pound bare weight, 4-WD compact tractor.

Your Kubota L2501 has a bare weight of 2,700 pounds.

 

[jaxs]

Good news is that plow is the same type modern farmers use ( 3 or 4x as wide behind large tractors). Bad news is that it takes 50 plus horsepower to pull it while performing intended purpouse of initial ripping unplowed soil. You could remove 2 shanks,install small sweeps and do a nice job plowing row crops with the N or compact. Sells used $500 to $900 around here.

 

[Ricn]

HEY, thanks for the info. No need of this impliment myself so might just put on Creigs list. Were these made by lots of companies besides Fergusion? I ask because the sticker/nameplate says Italy on it. The previous owner has a JD5320 tractor she is selling so perhaps her late husband used it behind that.

 

[Creamer]

This is a chisel Plow versus a Moldboard plow. It was made in Italy because there are none this small made in the US that I know of. There were back in the 1940s and 50s but agriculture here has moved on so this size of machine is imported. It looks like a very nice machine but as has already been said you need more tractor. The chisel points (just wider than the shank) pull easier that the sweeps Has a wider bottom than the shank) because they are not working all the soil - they just open and loosen the soil and are not made for weed killing. the sweeps are more for leveling and weed killing and there is no need to go more then 4-5" deep so our tractor may pull it like that - especially if you have gone through the ground and loosened it up with the spikes first.

 

[Ricn]

Thankyou Sir for this reply and the explanations.

 

[workinonit]

That's what we call a chisel plow. It's a light duty one but that's what it is.