McCormick cultivator and planter

[Boss Hog]

I saw this at a farm show. Why would you want planter units on a cultivator?

 

[Absent Minded Farmer]

I saw this at a farm show. Why would you want planter units on a cultivator?

That's how IH mounted a lot of equipment on their tractors, especially the Farmalls. It is indeed a planter & not a cultivator. The central mounting helped with row visibility & you always have your hoppers in front, to keep an eye on.

IH was not the only company that offered mid-mount planters & other equipment, either.

Mike

 

[Boss Hog]

Now that I look at it closer - I think I have a picture of the wrong setup. It may have been the one in the next tractor with the blue guards on it.

 

[used2bmike]

My family had a neighbor years ago when we lived in Pennsylvania that used a set-up like that. If I remember correctly he planted about 20 acres with it.

 

[rrlund]

I've got the remains of an Oilver planter like that. Dad always used it on the 66 when I was a kid. Some of the parts for it burned up in a barn fire in 1964. I've been looking for the parts to put it back together every since, but by now, what's left of it is probably too rough to resurect.

 

[560Dennis]

very nice showing . A Very nice C-221 planter , highly prized in my opinion.
Up the row looks like a C244 or a C 254 corn and cotton cultivators also very good
Probably has a 198 fertilizer unit for side dresser, also very showing.

 

[paul]

The next tractor over in your pic has a cultivator.

The one featured in your pic is a planter, the larger can up higher is for fertilizer.

If the cultivator tractor has a similar large can on it over the cultivator, that would also be for side dressing fertilizer, not planting. Can’t see if there is anything on the cultivator tho.

Paul

 

[Absent Minded Farmer]

Now that I look at it closer - I think I have a picture of the wrong setup. It may have been the one in the next tractor with the blue guards on it.

If that plain C next to it has a hopper mounted on the cultivator, it would be to side dress fertilizer.

Mike

Edit: Ok..... just read it now. X2 on what Paul said. Lol!

 

[wh]

I saw this at a farm show. Why would you want planter units on a cultivator?

Tractor was made during the time that one or two tractors did everything. Plow, plant, cultivate, harvest. You changed implements not tractors.

 

[J.Wondergem]

I saw this at a farm show. Why would you want planter units on a cultivator?

It doesn't look like a cultivator to me.

 

[wh]

It doesn't look like a cultivator to me.

Probably just a planter frame/brackets. Take that off and wrestle on the cultivator frame. Then need to plant something else. Off with the cultivator and on with the planter - unless you need to “fix” the ground, then on with the plows. These tractors were new when men were men and smelled like at the end of the day!

 

[J.Wondergem]

Probably just a planter frame/brackets. Take that off and wrestle on the cultivator frame. Then need to plant something else. Off with the cultivator and on with the planter - unless you need to “fix” the ground, then on with the plows. These tractors were new when men were men and smelled like at the end of the day!

The whole frame is different on the tractor next to it..

 

[Timmycornpicker]

I saw this at a farm show. Why would you want planter units on a cultivator?

I've heard that some farmers who were doing contour farming back then preferred the mid-mount planter over a drawn planter because it kept the row spacing more consistent while curving around the hills.

 

[paul]

Oh yea, mid mount equipment was so much easier to operate. Easy to watch and to steer precisely.

And so much more difficult to mound and dismount…..

Paul