3pt Culivator

Robert_Parent · Oct 4, 2004

Hi,

Here is a photo of a pull type culivator which I modified to work with my 3pt hitch. I have about $100.00 invested including the cost of the drawbar being used to attach to the lower arm assembly.

Robert

JerryG · Oct 4, 2004

Looks like it may work. /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gifYou may need to add a couple of braces from the upright to the back.

Robert_Parent · Oct 4, 2004

Thanks, I thought I would need a couple braces as well, but its small enough so it works fine as is. The neat thing is that other than the drawbar and a couple bolts all parts came with the original cultivator and there are even a couple pieces left over for some other project. I don't have a welder so figuring out to make the conversion was the fun part of the project.

hobbyfarm · Oct 4, 2004

That looks pretty ingenious.
Do you have much clearance to cultivate?
phil

Robert_Parent · Oct 5, 2004

Thanks,

My main use for the cultivator is to prep the sub-soil around my new house for a lawn. For the front yard I tried using a std garden tiller but it was so slow and the tiller took a real beating as the ground is very hard (clay). While roaming through the local Fleet Farm (farm supply store) I came across the pull-type cultivator and thought this might do the trick so home it came. After pulling it through the back yard a couple times I decided it would work but the pull-style hitch had to go. With a hillside and small areas to get into something that could be raised and lowered from the tractor was needed, hince this project.

After a few trips through the yard I pick the rocks out and the tiller zips right through. I then spread some black dirt (the loader is a life saver!) till again, rake, plant and water.