Cultipacker ? Unknown

[gunny2]

Anyone possibly ID this cultipacker

 

[Leroy]

Avery later Moline. Had one.

 

[Traditional Farmer]

We used to call that style clod busters,would run it over ground with clods before planting corn

 

[charlie n]

Dunham??

 

[Leroy]

Not Dunham, made entirely different. I had them also along with one like he shows. I found an owners manual and that is how I identified mine.

 

[gunny2]

Thank you , thought maybe Dunham but the side bearing supports were not cast. Made from flat iron . Going to get it this AM 900.00 do not think i can find a 8 ft in better condition .At least from the pictures LOL

 

[coonie minnie]

Looks a lot like a Brillion we once had.

 

[Timmycornpicker]

I've never seen one with those serrated rings where at least one wasn't broken and at least one more was missing. It's a nice one for sure.

 

[Timmycornpicker]

That should say was broken . . . or should it? Now I've confused myself!

 

[Alvin 41]

Mine is a Brillion,with slightly different cast end bearing holders. Same angle iron top frame and hitch. had it over 40 years and added a center bearing,extended frame to pull 4' wing rollers to follow a 13' IH 5300 drill (had to extend tongue considerably for short turning) and have sometimes had to repair broken rollers by welding in steel replacement sections. Sold the larger drill and roller wings and am back to pulling the base roller behind a IH 510 9' drill.

 

[Leroy]

Brillion night and day different.

 

[Leroy]

That packer would have been made in the 40's by B.F.Avery for tha little Avery A or Wards Twin Row tractors and up into early 50.s for a short time by Moline after the bought the B. F. Avery company. Probably sold new for around a hundred dollars. I sold mine around 3 years ago after I lost the farm and think I got less than a hundred for it. I pulled mine and aso a Dunham behind the disk or also pulled that Avery packer behind the grain drill. When I got mine it was so loose I added a press wheel and a sprocket wheel form Dunhan beside what was on it to tighten things up. When I got it I thought it might have been Oliver till I found that owners manual.

 

[gunny2]

Neighbor told me the teeth rings float and push down rocks . I did pick it up . I ran the disc and then pulled the packer .I could still see my tire tracks somewhat. Think I may add some cement block and see if that helps.

 

[Timmycornpicker]

My grandfather had a hitch on the disk and pulled the packer behind it. He had a 7 foot disk with an 8 foot packer.

 

[lastcowboy32]

(quoted from post at 18:30:23 06/29/22) Neighbor told me the teeth rings float and push down rocks . I did pick it up . I ran the disc and then pulled the packer .I could still see my tire tracks somewhat. Think I may add some cement block and see if that helps.

When I was a kid, my father had the local welder handyman do quite a few projects on the farm. Two of them were "weight boxes." One bolted onto the front of our old Farmall 706 gas tractor. It was just a box set in a channel iron frame that bolted onto the front of the tractor. We could throw suitcase weights or even stones into that box to keep the tractor's front end down while it pulled the ploughs. During haying season, when the tractor ran the haybine or baler, the box served as a tool box, carrying extra guards, sections, shear bolts, rivets... one of those old sickle bar riveting tools, etc. And, two of the pieces of channel iron on the front served as a bumper, so we could push haywagons into the barn for unloading.

Anyway... the other weight box went on our cultipacker. Our welder handyman found an old steel water tank, the old style, about the shape of a modern hot water heater... but thicker steel. Looking back from nearly 50 years, I would say 1/4" thick... but it couldn't have been that thick. It was thick enough to hold rocks, though.

He cut that water tank in half, and laid each half between the top rails of the cultipacker, open side up... just like a big, heavy trough. Whenever we fitted a field for planting, when we picked rocks, we would load that weight box on the cultipacker with enough weight from the rocks to pack that particular field. Some took more, some took less.

 

[lastcowboy32]

Dad had a brillion "pulvimulcher" that was sort of like a combination drag and cultipacker. We used that usually as the last step before seeding. The procedure was usually...

plough
disc up the sod
pick rocks
run the pulvimulcher with the drags set deep
maybe pick a few more rocks that the pulvimulcher dragged up
run the pulvimulcher with the drags set to skim...

Then...

The cultipacker was pulled behind the grain drill, with stones for weights, as mentioned above.

It's still fascinating to hear all of the different ways that people fit ground for planting and seeding.

 

[Leroy]

That is the way they were ment to be used unless you were disking with horses.