A well spent $3.50

[Johndeere3720]

Yesterday, We went out to the garage sale that a local school has every year and I found some neat things in the tool department. I found an old cultivator head and an old bar that was probably used for a drag harrow of some sort. I grabbed them both for $3.50 and today started restoring them. I figured the drag bar could actually be used to skid smaller loggs out of the woods and I can use the cultivaror head for my middle buster so i can make smaller furrows if needed.

 

[Mousefield]

Sometimes you can find treasures at garage sales. Glad you found yours. :thumbsup:

 

[jayste]

Hey Jacob, what you've got there are antiques! BTW, that "old bar" is actually part of an old yoke to hitch a team of animals (probably horses or mules) to the tongue of a wagon. Actually looks like it could still be used if cleaned up. The outer rings are made to join the each animal to the yoke by way of a snap connected to the hames around the animals neck. The center ring is what the wagon tongue slips through. Below is a link to a pic of what I'm talking about. The yoke in this pic is actually made of wood and metal. Look how the animals are attached to the end of the tongue (underneath their chins). :thumbsup:

http://www.clydesdalecarriage.com/images/p7040002_july_4_08_cropd.jpg

 

[maybar]

Yesterday, We went out to the garage sale that a local school has every year and I found some neat things in the tool department. I found an old cultivator head and an old bar that was probably used for a drag harrow of some sort. I grabbed them both for $3.50 and today started restoring them. I figured the drag bar could actually be used to skid smaller loggs out of the woods and I can use the cultivaror head for my middle buster so i can make smaller furrows if needed.

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I find garage sales and auctions can be rather entertaining at times. I like to find old hand tools and restore them to a former capacity.

For future reference what you have found at your garage sale is a cultivator sweep and the pipe piece was probably used as a single tree with draft horses.

 

[mjarrels]

Use to go to the Coupeville Wa. Lyons garage sale every June at the School in Coupeville Wa. After 2 PM, everything was free. Always got great deals.

mark

 

[Iplayfarmer]

Good job buffing up that head. Of course a few minutes plowing through dirt would have done the same thing.

I'll second what jayste said about the old bar. My dad and brothers and I play with teams and wagons a bit. I don't know the official name of it, but that is indeed the piece that holds the wagon tongue. It's definately not a single tree.

 

[Johndeere3720]

Good job buffing up that head. Of course a few minutes plowing through dirt would have done the same thing.

I'll second what jayste said about the old bar. My dad and brothers and I play with teams and wagons a bit. I don't know the official name of it, but that is indeed the piece that holds the wagon tongue. It's definately not a single tree.

I had no idea that it was for a team of horses. Now it will be used with a tractor with several team of horses under its hood.:thumbsup: The cultivator head looked like it came off an old walk behind rototiller since it was also in a box full of old rototiller tines and parts.

 

[Johndeere3720]

I just went out to the shop. My cultivator head is done! looks brand new! i got it sitting here next to the computer since i might as well enjoy it being clean before i go play in the dirt with it. I also have been painting the bar John Deere green and it is coming along nicely.

 

[Iplayfarmer]

I had no idea that it was for a team of horses. Now it will be used with a tractor with several team of horses under its hood.:thumbsup: The cultivator head looked like it came off an old walk behind rototiller since it was also in a box full of old rototiller tines and parts.

Take it easy on that bar. It's not intended to withstand a lot of force. It's meant to hold the weight of a wagon tongue.

 

[Johndeere3720]

Take it easy on that bar. It's not intended to withstand a lot of force. It's meant to hold the weight of a wagon tongue.

Im debating rather than skidding logs, i can use it on my Dad's blanket harrow to attach it to the tractor. I think it is a 6'x4'.