Went looking and NO WE DIDNT TRESSPASS (pix)

Lou from Wi. · Feb 19, 2011

Went looking for equipment and had a real enjoyable day Seen both these pieces of equipment and son took photos. fellow we talked to ,had 68 acres of good farming ground for sale and had I been 40 years younger, and in great health.I would have bought it. Still could ,but no need to saddle my family with added work. Any way I can find other ways to go broke slower.lol Hope you enjoy the old stuff that was used then . Regards, LOU

Anonymous-0 · Feb 19, 2011

Yea right....You prolly tried to negotiate with him too. Hope he took down you license number. Can't be too sure about little fat guys with ugly tractors :shock:

RayP(MI) · Feb 19, 2011

Too bad it"s on the other side of the lake. I"ve been wanting one of those cultivators. We had one when I was growing up on this farm. Very useful for digging up quack grass roots, when preapring a sod field for rowcrops.

Lou from Wi. · Feb 19, 2011

Dave I LOTFLMAO.Now you know that you beat the other brain dead mal-functioning fellows off me.lol.
SATISFIED ??? THANKS FOR THE HUMOR. WE BOTH CAN US IT. YOURS AND MINE? REGARDS you pal LOU.

Adirondack case guy · Feb 19, 2011

Lou;

The first pic. looks like it could be a CASE "0" series field tiller with the spring teeth, in lieu of straight shanks.

RayP(MI) · Feb 19, 2011

Quite sure it's JD.

Lou from Wi. · Feb 19, 2011

Thanks for the post. After looking at the plow .I was thankful for the older farmers that used the hard riding equipment. They were real Americans. working from sun up till sundown . I can remember them from the farm my Dad had in Penn.Brings back memories. REGARDS LOU.

Lou from Wi. · Feb 19, 2011

WE didn't ask the fellow what make it was, but should have inquired. Such a pleasant guy to talk with. We (my Son And I and the farmer ) had such a swell time together. Later on Coming spring weather . wife will bake a cake and we will make it a coffee, clutch LOL .Still wish I was younger though .Warmest regards LOU & VICTOR.

just another old geezer · Feb 19, 2011

The first one is an International field cultivator, aka quack digger. I think a no. 8. Have one out back just like it.

MSD · Feb 19, 2011

That first one is a JD CC field cultivator. No mistaking it if you ever used one.

1950whiteC · Feb 19, 2011

The first one is junk....no mistakes about that.
But the horse-drawn plow is field ready and you can hook it to anything you own or share a bed with. That thing will turn dirt!
Nice pics.... and thanks for sharing.

Bill(Wis) · Feb 19, 2011

No one around where we farmed would call that second one a plow. It is a one row sulky cultivator designed to be pulled by two horses, one on either side of the row being cultivated. It looks like a John Deere. If so, it will have, in addition to the hand levers, two foot pedals to adjust the gang width as you were in motion. That way, you could "sneak up" on the rows on each side of the cultivator making it unecessary to come back on the row next to you so you could hop over to the row beyond. Made it go just about as fast as a two row cultivator. My grandfather would start out on one side of a 40 acre corn field with the horses and I would start out on the other with a tractor mounted two row cultivator. I would always beat him to the middle but that was because he would stop to rest the horses every two rounds (one mile). Or so I thought. Perhaps he was just humoring me along. I was about 8 years old at the time. (;>))

RandyB(MI) · Feb 19, 2011

Quite sure it's a JD also. IH had the wheels outboard of the frame and the clutch was at the left end and not the center. JD had inboard wheels and center clutch. OOps! Just looked at my operator manual and sales brochure...it's a "CC" JD definately.

Anonymous-0 · Feb 19, 2011

Gosh,,,if you got the $$$ and its priced right BUY it,,,I feel lands still the best,,,,your offspring can always sell it or so can you ,,,land just dont go down

55 50 Ron · Feb 19, 2011

The two top photos are of a JD CC field cultivator just as others have said. I DISAGREE with the comment that they are junk. It looks to be in quite good shape and has 13 shanks at 6 inch spacing so it's 6 1/2 ft wide. I have an 8 ft like it. They were made up to 14 ft wide. They do a nice job in seed bed preparation on plowed ground. I also DISAGREE that they were good for killing quack grass. They wouldn't go nearly deep enough to kill quack grass. In quack grass they would act mostly like a hay rake by just scratching the surface and plug up with whatever they could pull off the top inch or so of soil. To really kill quack grass you need a heavy chisel plow.

Lou from Wi. · Feb 20, 2011

Ron, The fellow still uses it. Says it is in good shape. Gonna keep it when the farm ground is sold.Guess he wants it for a food plot. Thanks for the reply.

Bill(Wis) · Feb 20, 2011

To kill quack grass you need ROUNDUP. I R A Xpurt.

RayP(MI) · Feb 20, 2011

Maybe not in your conditions, but they dug out the quack grass roots and dragged them to the surface quite well here. We typically disked 6 to 8 inches deep, with a "disk tiller" passing twice at 90 degrees first, then two or three passes with the field cultivator over the period of several days. Allowing for the sun to dry out the surfaced roots. Also did a nice job in place of a 3 section drag (spring tooth harrow.)

I'd sure like one now. Maybe 14 foot!

Brian G. NY · Feb 20, 2011

I know absolutely nothing about that first piece of equipment but the different opinions as to its mfgr. are certainly diverse.
The big tip as far as I"m concerned is the remnants of JD green paint on various parts. LOL

mark in boonville ny · Feb 20, 2011

i got a lot of that old kinda stuff left from the last owner. any body want to come buy it. ill eventually cut it up and junk it. maybe 3-6 different large things that horses pulled around. come get it but not for free. reply to me if anybody wants some.

Lou from Wi. · Feb 20, 2011

Pictures would draw interest.
LOU

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