3pt Toolbar

[creekshorefarms]

While I am all for building my own equipment from sratch, sometimes you come across a deal you just can't pass up. I bought this row crop cultivator at an auction for $65, just because it was $65. It sat around for a while, but I wanted to plant some potatoes and was looking for an easy way to furrow for potatoes so I removed all the cultivation parts, bought 2 12" furrowers from agrisupply and used 2 spare cultivator shanks off my Farmall Super 'A' to make a 2 row potato furrower. I was so happy with how everything fit together and the cultivator was already made to accept 1-13/16" shaft attachments like hillers or old style Farmall cultivation equipment.

Next year this will get turned into a 2 row carousel type potato planter, but we just needed to get the job done for this summer so we planted by hand.



My next project hangs in the works...

 

[whirly]

Congrats on having the insight to turn your $65 "yard art" into multiple useful tools.

Re-purposing and multi-use are the hallmarks of farming and rural life.

 

[Marveltone]

Well done! Instead of shelling out big bucks for a new one trick pony, you're on the way for more of a "Swiss Army Knife" on the cheap. I like your thinking.

Joe

 

[PhysAssist]

Is your next project a landscaping/grading blade?

Good find with the tool bar!
Thomas

 

[creekshorefarms]

Is your next project a landscaping/grading blade?

Good find with the tool bar!
Thomas

Nope

That is another toolbar for my raised bed maker, transplant marker...I have more pics and will start a thread about it soon.

 

[PhysAssist]

:thumbsup:

 

[charlz]

I have a 'T-bar' style toolbar and it has been handy. You can put most anything on the shanks; chisel points, shovels, sweeps, hippers etc. definitely a good buy. I use mine every year to lay out corn and potato rows and then again to cultivate the corn a few times before it gets too tall. With chisel points on I use it to rip my sons motocross track before running the tiller on it. I want to get some disk hillers so I can use it to 're-stack' my raised beds that are getting a little too spread out.

Great price on yours.. I paid more than twice that for mine.