Which Cultivator do I need for my H?

[eodcoduto]

This is cross posted in the implement section as well.

We are expanding our truck garden in Muscle Shoals, AL and adding 2 acres for row crops, Bloody Butcher corn, purple hull peas and such and we need a cultivator. I have a 1948 H, distillate model, that runs great and I’d rather not buy another machine, but the lack of three point gives me two choices; add a three point and you can buy 2-4 row cultivators all day long for $500. Or find a complete mid mount setup and leave it on the tractor. In have an IH 184 2 row planter we pull with a Kubota M7060, but for cultivation the front tires are just a bit to wide for our double 30” rows.

Thats a long winded way of saying which mounted cultivator should I look for, or do I just put a three point on it? We do this for profit and not a hobby, with cornmeal and grits as our best sellers.

 

[used red MN]

For 2 rows at a time front/side mount IH HM238 or IH HM 250.

 

[eodcoduto]

I have bits of the mounting system, I want to find a complete setup for southern clay.

 

[BarnyardEngineering]

I wish you luck, because you most likely have a long row to hoe. Maybe you'll luck out and your next door neighbor will have a complete setup sitting on a pallet in the corner of their shed. Heard of it happening but not to often.

Most likely it is going to boil down to whatever you can find vs. looking for a specific model. A lot of the time if someone has one to sell they have no idea what model it is, or that it's even a cultivator. To them it may be a pile of random junk. It will be advantageous to be able to identify cultivator parts by sight.

The lion's share of these mounted cultivators ended up in a pile behind the shed in the weeds where it was picked over when the farmer needed a scrap of metal to fix something. It was otherwise forgotten until the retirement sale. That's where the scrappers picked it up for $1. So many ended up as Harbor Freight wrenches, unfortunately.

 

[wh]

In your area there should be several cultivators behind the old barns. You are in the edge of cotton country. Go towards Huntsville and stop at every large farm you see. You might just strike gold!

 

[eodcoduto]

I’m constantly scanning tree rows and old barns for equipment. It’s an interesting circle of life. The farms got bigger so this equipment was no longer needed but now the farms are so big, most people can’t get into it so they’re starting small direct market farms that make good money and now we need the equipment that our grand and great grand parents used.

 

[wh]

Check out bates equipment in cullman. I65/hwy 278 Exit 308 on i65. Located just west of 65. Coming South you can see it just before you exit. Very possible they would have one. 256 734 7822.

 

[eodcoduto]

Check out bates equipment in cullman. I65/hwy 278 Exit 308 on i65. Located just west of 65. Coming South you can see it just before you exit. Very possible they would have one. 256 734 7822.

Thanks they have a nice gleaner there too I’ve wanted to check out.

 

[Powered By IH]

I’m constantly scanning tree rows and old barns for equipment. It’s an interesting circle of life. The farms got bigger so this equipment was no longer needed but now the farms are so big, most people can’t get into it so they’re starting small direct market farms that make good money and now we need the equipment that our grand and great grand parents used.

If you don't mind traveling @jon f mn knows someone in our area I think with cultivators.

 

[eodcoduto]

I’m good for a couple hundred miles.

 

[wh]

Thanks they have a nice gleaner there too I’ve wanted to check out.

That gleaner has been there awhile I think.