Willl
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Nice job. And not bad pics for a phone.
finished welding cultipacker frame
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jenkinsph
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Looks good. Have to ask why you painted it yellow instead of matching the tractor?
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Looks nice. You did a fine job. What diameter rollers did you use from the Dunham packer? Ken Sweet
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Would you mind going over which bearings, mounts, and axle parts for me? I can do the frame work. I picked up a old 7' dunham double for a couple hundred bucks and might chop it and make two packers, sell one to get mine free! Dang thing is too heavy for the angle iron frame on it, at least for a three point hitch. It is a pull type now. I know the bearings are shot. I suspect they are wood blocks rather than bearings, but I haven't cut off the rusty bolts to look.
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My question would be how could you possibly get enough weight on it to do any good? I guess mine is a double row 7' Dunham from 1921 and I spent quite some time rebuilding it. I fabricated some parts but found places on the internet who will sell you parts if you didn't buy the cultipacker from them. Anyway, I have a thousand pounds of weight in the 'weight box' and it seems to be the minimum needed to do a good job at smoothing after I plow, disc and then rototill. If I don't use enough weight, I'll get grass to grow fine, but it will settle out to be as lumpy as heck; which is the reason I re-did the area in the first place.
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Mine is still a pull type, I added a 2" hitch on the front. However, I have to use either forks on my tractor or my forklift to move it around. I cheated and got rid of the old wood bearing blocks that just used a grease bath. I'd laugh at the design, but they were still there and it's how many years old? Anyway, I carefully welded some high carbon plate inside where the old bearings were. I had 1 shot packer wheel on each row, so that gave me enough room to go ahead and bolt on some regular heavy grease-able bearings to hold the new axles I bought. I actually did the axles twice too.
The first time I just used regular steel rod (1.75"?), but discovered the axles were flexing up over humps rather than using all the weight I had to mash them flat. I had to change out my axles to a hard alloy axles. I generally use my Suzuki 750 King Quad to tow it because the quad doesn't put down hardly any ground pressure (no tracks) yet has enough power locked in 4X4 to pull the cultipacker. Without the added weight box, it was just bouncing along and not doing what I needed. It looks like you could use some angle and weld weight boxes on top of your packer and get good results as it is; unless you run into the axle flex I did.
I think you can see in the attached pic where I squeezed the bearings inside the packer and retained the (now non functional) old block bearing caps on the outside. You can see the pretty purple grade 8 bolts I used on everything. Good luck. I sure use the heck out of my cultipacker. Every spring and fall I run it over my entire yard to smooth it out when the ground is soft, but not mushy.
