7' do-all

[dgoodman2]

Since I have never had or seen a do-all. Can someone tell me what all it does???? No pun intended. Looks like not much more than a section hare.

Worth having? Advantages? Disadvantages?

 

[Young_NY_Kid]

I have never ever seen one, but keep it.

 

[fastfarmall]

Not real sure, but think it's used to fill in holes on a gravel road, The neighbors got a 8foot, 3 point hitch one, but a lot newer, it does a lot of good !

 

[AG in IN]

Generally, a Do-All was a tool that usually had some type of shoveled tillage tool in front (think spring-loaded cultivator shanks), a rolling basket, some kind of spike drag, and then some kind of leveler in the rear, usually spring loaded boards, buster bars, and/or row(s) of harrow tines. Some had another row of rolling baskets toward the rear, some had more shanks or danish tines in the middle, there were various combinations. Some were sold as "incorporators" with no shanks in the front, generally used for lightly working in fertilizers or granular chemicals.

The "Forrest City Do-All" is the tool where the name comes from. Forrest City Machine Works made the first tool marketed with these features. The idea was to make a self-contained 1-pass finishing tool with tearing/cultivating, chopping/clod busting, leveling, and smoothing actions to prepare a seedbed for planting. IH/CIH (models 468 and 568), Noble, Deere, Wil-Rich, and others had similar machines in the late 1970's into the 1990's.

The rolling basket framework pictured appears to be at least part of a wing from what was perhaps a 3-section folding Do-All. There are holes on the right side of that frame for where it pivoted when folded up for transport.

AG

 

[dgoodman2]

Thanks. I saw that mount on the side and wondered. I also knew the 3 pt hitch looked way to heavy built for a 7' tool. A wider one makes sense.

 

[BarnyardEngineering]

The 3pt parts could have come from anything really. The original tool was probably on wheels.