Front mount cultivator for an 8N Ford

About a year ago, I asked if anyone had ever seen or knew how to mount this cult. that I have. Well, after searching through all my junk, I found all the brackets and have one side mounted. There is only one shank on each side of each row. The shovels don't lift straight up like other cults. do, they swivel back. My dad bought it when he bought the tractor new. Said he only used it once. I asked him why. He said be ause it was the biggest piece of junk he ever bought. After seeing it mounted, I think I agree with him.

You have never cultivated a small crop with a rear mount that's why they had the row shovels up front so you could see what you were doing.

The reason for the one shovel. The single shank in the front is it is ment to be used with the rest of the cultivator that is the part that goes on the 3 point and you could see and keep them on the row better than the rear mount that had the other shanks on and the only downside is having to step over the lift rod for the front to get on. That is other than taking them off or putting them on for using tractor on a different job the rest of the day. I hated that rear mount and wished we had the front unit as well. I only ever saw one front mount unit and it was at auction that I did not have enough money to get. Your pictures do not look right as there is no connection to rear axle and the front unit bolts to front side of front axle. If I could find it I do have the owners manual for one. I started cultivating with the rear section in late 50's and because we did not have that front section I took over the John Deere A with hand lift cultivators in 58. In later years we had 3 point 4 row cultivators for the bigger Fords but I left them set and went back to the 4 row Deere front mount cultivators. What you are showing in your pictures is in no way a normal front section for an 8N. I don't know what it is tho.

I never saw one,but Dad said he had one for the 8N that he had after the war,between the Allis B and the Oliver 66. He said that was a miserable monstrosity to put on. The way he talked,he never used it more than a time or two either.

I agree with genebender! Here is how I cultivate.

You are correct that you need the 3pt cult to work the ground between the rows and behind the tires. If you look closely you can see that it is connected to the rear axle. The front bracket only fits in one postion. As far as I can tell, there is no other way to mount it.

I have a two row front mount cultivator for a 9,2 or 8N & likely even the Fergusons. The front unit mounts to the front axle. There is a rear unit also to clear the tracks. A bar runs from the top of the 3pt links in back to the front mount part. When the rear part lifts, the bar is pushed forward which causing the front part to rotate the shovels toward the rear until they are out of the ground. It has a mfg tag on it but I don't remember the mfg.

If you dont remove the backets each time you take it off, its simple to mount and dismount. If you remove the brackets, you have to remove the fenders to remove the bracket on the three point linkage. Not enough room between the fender and 3pt arm to get the pin out and it has to go in from the fender side. The rear axle bracket can be removed at that time since the fender is removed anyway. The front brackets have to come off when you narrow the front axle.

I cultivated with that tractor and a 3pt cult for years until I bought a JD A with a front mount when I was in 7th grade because I hated that butt dragger on the 8N

Would you be willing to sell the manual?

If I knew where it was I could make you a copy. Thing is I just moved and have not gotten what I moved where I can find things and still have several days of moving to do and only have till around of febuary to get it all done. Then there is everything from outside yet to take care of.

The one I did not get at that auction did not in any way hook to the rear axle, Only front axle and the lift bars that were missing should have hooked to where the lift arms hooks to the rockShaft. And I could have easily made them from the Deere lift pipes. Only 2 bolts on each side at the front axle to mount the front end and putting on the lift pipes about 10 seconds on each side. Sears sold a simular cultivator for all the N seriem NAA, 600 and 8oo Fords and the grey 2000 and 4000 Fords in the non row crop style. The Ferguson TE & TO 20, TO 30 & 35 tractors plus the Oliver S55

We had a new ferguson one for my'44.Dad said it was a pita and threw it away and just used the rear part;It had a pointer bar clamped to the front axle for aiming.If you think that's a complicated mounting,you've never seen a two row Dearborn corn picker mounted on a 901 tractor.Rube Goldberg would die of envy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I remember hauling at least 3 of those to the scrap yard over the years. Anyone that tryd to use them as a boy said the same thing, they were a big piece of scrap iron.