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SVcummins · Mar 31, 2019

Picksd up ome packers and a bigger fuel tank from the guy who use to run the organic dairy . My plan is to make a packer to go behind either the John Deere cultivator or the vibra shank or the power harrow . I can?t decide if it?s worth trying to make the packers shorter or Just overlap a little bit each pass

SVcummins · Mar 31, 2019

How would it pull if I put one roller behind the other overlapping about 6 feet ?

JayinNY · Mar 31, 2019

That's some nice mountian scenery in the back ground! Also is that a old truck with livestock box right on the back of the truck? Pretty neat!

SVcummins · Mar 31, 2019

Jay this is the truck about a 55 Chevy it had grain sides but they need rebuilt so I took them off . My nephew was going to take it to school and redo the engine but it?s to late in the year

Leroy · Mar 31, 2019

No problem.

SVcummins · Mar 31, 2019

Leroy I think that?s how I am going build it

johnlobb · Apr 1, 2019

That Chevy truck would be around '53 or older. '55 had the cross grille...I had a '54...

caterpillar guy · Apr 1, 2019

Over lapping behind the center piece was how the packers with pups as they are called around here were pulled for years. Till they got to folding them for road transport with tires on them for higher speed.
I'm surprised you would want much of a packer because of wind erosion. I know that is one of the reasons the guys in eastern WA and OR like their Cats for ground working and planting with of the dealers told me once.

Adirondack case guy · Apr 1, 2019

hey SV. I am one step ahead of you, but in 1/16 scale. This is my current build to hook behind the disc that I built.

SVcummins · Apr 1, 2019

johnlobb Thanks I had it all figured out once with the help of the chevs of the 40s catalog and the help of guys like you but I had forgot the exact details

SVcummins · Apr 1, 2019

Acg that is awesome work I wish I had your talent . It looks easy when you think about it but it isn?t when you actually go to doing it . You could sell those models for a fortune

SVcummins · Apr 1, 2019

caterpillar The packer will be used for final seedbed prep on pretty flat land not much erosion ever happens here the soil is heavy and we don?t get much moisture either

Adirondack case guy · Apr 1, 2019

The tractors and equipment that I have built this winter will hopefully be worth something. I have spent about $350 just on brass, tiny screws and miniature tires etc from Dakota Toys. Then add the time that I have spent, if it is worth anything, and then add in some new tools, and some bags of wood pellets to keep my cellar shop toasty warm.
Toy making is not cheap. I spent about the same amount of money last winter building full sized wood hauling trailers in my big shop which requires no extra heat source.
Loren

SVcummins · Apr 1, 2019

I bet those implements would sell for around 3 or 350$ each and the tractors 5 or 6 hundred each with the amount or detail you have put into em which is actually probably an insult for the amount of work you?ve put into these projects . I?d pay 4 or 5 for a nice hand built customized John Deere .

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