Hiller

[TraderMark]

ASC=AgriSupply Company
They have several locations mostly here in the south.

TSC=Tractor Supply Company
Lots more locations than ASC but more ranch oriented than dirt farming like ASC

 

[VPFarm]

It seems that I was thinking about the same basic thing as you were/are.

I'm working a new property and started a 1/2 acre garden late this last fall (even got a small crop). I'm currently planning for spring and gathering/manufacturing equipment over the winter for it. I decided for the sake of time and ease to use a few of the furrowing blades (shown in your post) and attach them directly to my single row cultivator C-shanks. Those will be attached to a heavy 2x2-in tool bar I'm having drilled to mount under the same cultivator I purchased used then stripped & re-painted to match my tractor.

I plan on first loosening the soil with the cultivator tines (6" deep or so) and then make several nice furrows on a second pass with three of these blades (8" front width, 11" back) to give me two beds spaced 21" . We'll see how that works out but I'm worried about the C-shanks having too much give/flex.

Plan-B, a better plan I think, is in the works as I do a little research on these forums regarding Hiller discs and attaching these to the same 2x2 toolbar I'm having made for the cultivator. I know this is a better setup but I'm trying to avoid the cost right now of the clamps and disc assemblies. I think my little home-made toolbar project will be useful for a number of other attachments and as I figure out my soil issues. I plan on expanding this to an acre or two after I learn the land/bugs/weeds a bit better in my new ranch/farm.

--David