What Is This Implement?

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Does anybody have any idea what this implement is? I inherited it from my grandfather who passed away 10 years ago. I vaguely remember him saying he used it to run over fields when he overseeded them but I could be wrong on that. I never actually saw him use it. Any idea on who made it and roughly what era it came from? I don't think I've seen something like it before.
 

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Yup! :applause: Rotary hoe. :thumbsup:
 
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Does anybody have any idea what this implement is? I inherited it from my grandfather who passed away 10 years ago. I vaguely remember him saying he used it to run over fields when he overseeded them but I could be wrong on that. I never actually saw him use it. Any idea on who made it and roughly what era it came from? I don't think I've seen something like it before.

another picture: Series 14 Rotary Hoe
 
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I have one identical to that. I use it to arerate my yard. Had no idea what it really was. Got it off my father inlaw. He didn't know either. Only difference being is mine is a pull type.
 
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Does anybody have any idea what this implement is? I inherited it from my grandfather who passed away 10 years ago. I vaguely remember him saying he used it to run over fields when he overseeded them but I could be wrong on that. I never actually saw him use it. Any idea on who made it and roughly what era it came from? I don't think I've seen something like it before.

That's pretty neat! Just in looks alone. And its from your grandfather, so you have a connection to it. I'd pull it out of there, get it up on blocks out of the dirt, spray it off and set it in a flower bed if you have no use for it.
 
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Also used on soybean fields when soil is worked fine and the crust of the soil gets rock hard after a hard rain then sunny days at the same time that the seeds are germinating and seedlings are trying to push up through the soil. The seedlings can literally get trapped beneath the hard crust. A quick/shallow pass with the rotary hoe breaks up the crust and allows them to emerge. A few seedlings are killed by the hoeing but the reduced population can mostly compensate by making additional branches and yield reduction is only slight.
 
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Well who would've thunk? At least i know what it is now. Thanks guys
 
 

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