Couldn't Find it - So I Made it

[Creamer]

I had been looking for a hiller for my CUT that would make raised beds in my garden. I couldn't find anything that I thought would give me the depth I wanted so I finally designed it and had it made. I think it did pretty well. As you can see it is a toolbar with hiller disks and a pallet forks attached. The hiller disks are 16" and the pallet forks are hauling various skids I have set up for different types of jobs like one would use a carryall for or firewood. The key for me is that they are on the same toolbar so i could put weight on the forks to keep the hiller in the ground as my CUT does not have down force on the 3 pt. You can see by the shovel in the 3rd photo how deep they are. This was in recently tilled soil.

 

[Wolfy]

Nice. Can't beat a multi -use impliment. Say, how does your 1710 perform with those R-3 tires?

 

[Creamer]

Real well - but I do not do much pulling. Without the FWD I would be in trouble.

 

[stuckmotor]

Does the toolbar twist when you use the forks?

 

[Creamer]

Not that you would notice. There is obviously a twisting force on it so there is some deflection but it is made out of 3" sq tubing with 1/4" wall and my tractor does not have a lot of lift - somewhere around a ton. Therefore the twisting forces are fairly low.

The stresses are actually higher when doing the hilling as they are applied at the ends of the toolbar whereas the forks are usually much farther in. That is one of the reasons I chose to build my own - all the hillers I could find were made out of lighter material and could not have withstood the forces of single pas shilling to this depth. Furthermore, most had angle bars on them which severely limits the placement of the forks and are often right where I need the forks for such standard skid type items such as Ropaks.

 

[stuckmotor]

Very good. I'm glad it's working as you designed it.

 

[cmhyland]

All you really need is the inner discs turned inward. Also you could clamp a really smal section of chainlink to the forks to flatten out the top of the rows, I'm going to try it myself.... by really small I would say 24" by 36" long maybe... Here is a pic of the row builder I purchased and the rows it has made.



Regards,
Chris

 

[Creamer]

CMhyland - With a single disc how do you take out the entire tire track? How many passes were those rows?

With mine I am essentially making two beds every pass - half of one to the outside on each side as well as the one in the middle. Not that ti takes that long that I needed to - I just needed the width of two discs for the tire track.