DIY Cultipacker

[LeadPoison]

I am thinking pipe and concrete as the main guts of it. I thought about getting some 2" pipe and welding some rebar around it to it to make a internal frame. I would then insert that into a much larger pipe. Fill with concrete. Then take some heavy rod and insert it into each 2" pipe end. Then bend it around and weld the two for a tow point.

I will be using it for about 8 acres of food plots twice a year. I will be using the Kubota M4900 to pull it. I also plan on building a drag out of a good sized tree trunk and attaching multiple tires behind it.

Thoughts.

 

[joes_427_vette]

They are not that expensive. I bought two wing units, four foot sections for a hundred bucks each. (with a couple spare wheels ) I can pull both offset which covers seven feet or one with the garden tractor for small areas. Works real well for me.

 

[rdln]

Hmmm, my 4" axle brillion was $200 used turnkey, and I believe the pointed wheels help break the up the large clods, what you are describing is a cement roller...just guessing but maybe that would push the clods it the soft, tilled dirt underneath. Could you use 18" corrugated steel culvert for the outside?

 

[john_bud]

this?

 

[LeadPoison]

Yep that's it. The corrugated pipe would work well. Basically I just want to press seed firmly into the ground. Good soil to seed contact. I will be breaking up the dirt clods with the tires.