What is this??

[Eagle10]

Can any one tell me what this 3 point attachment is? What is it worth? What is it used for? For more pictures, go to treasuretrovesonline.com or call Raymond @616-836-7376.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

My guess is an aerator.

 

[JoeinTX]

Ya, aerator or tined cultivator.

Tines don't seem quite long enough for true aeration but it also seems to have too many sets/gangs for simple cultivating. Non-adjustable and seem to be staggered to cover entire width of the tool.


Worth? Couple hundred maybe if it's free-wheeling and in decent working condition. And assuming you can figure out what to call it and how to describe it to a buyer.

 

[Thomas]

Also aerator,by the looks one could add weight on top...wonder if each disc are re
moveable for spacing?

 

[mustangsallysdad]

Call it an antique farming artifact and ask a small fortune for it.

 

[Eagle10]

I like it!!! Thanks for the idea!!:thumbsup:
Thanks to all of you that have replied. That is what I thought it was but was not sure.

Oh and by the way... it is free wheeling and seems like it would work fine. We do not have a tractor to hook it to any more, so we can not really try it out.
Thanks again.

 

[deepNdirt]

Even though it looks like its purpose would be to aerate, I think back in the days of when this tool was built a much simpler design for aerating would have been made, even today it is as simple made as a steel drum with spikes weld to it..... this tool looks like it would do a bit more than jab holes in the ground, it might be more for cultivating topsoil or could have been the first design of a pull behind rototiller for a tractor, the cutters are stager as would be Tines on a tiller, .... I'm gonna guess the first none PTO powered rototiller

 

[Eagle10]

You could be right. I see what you mean with the tines. It does look like a rototiller type thing.
I guess that I need more replies to figure this one out.
Thanks again!!

 

[kebo]

I think it's a rotary hoe, but I guess it could be called an aerator as well. Either way, the tines dig up small divots as they rotate.

 

[Egon]

http://www.oldfergusontractors.com/photogallery/Florida 2007 All/_DSC2143.jpg

Rotary Hoe.

 

[Eagle10]

Thank you Egon. I appreciate the pictures!!!:thumbsup:

 

[Farmerford]

kebo is right; it is a rotary hoe. On south Georgia farms it was used if after planting and before the seeds broke through, the wind dried a crust on the soil. The tines would crack the crust enough to let the seeds break through. Though called a "hoe" , it was not designed to remove weeds.

I liked them because the driver (me) didn't have to pay much attention to what he was doing, you could go pretty fast and generate you own cooling breeze, and they were so easy to pull that you ran all day on a tank of fuel on a John Deere 420.

 

[sandman2234]

And I thought a rotary hoe was what they called a woman that got around a lot...
David from jax