Model L12 cultivator parts

[micdelbo]

Hoping I can get some help on my current project. It is proving difficult to find information on the cultivator and parts for my LA.

My grandfather had an LA and I learned how to drive on it. He sold it before I was old enough to have a need for one. His had the plow, sikle bar mower, cultivator and homemade snow plow. I tried to locate the owner who purchased it but had no luck.

I purchased mine last October. It has been re-painted unfortunately (I like original) but other than having to replace the brake linings, is in very good operational condition.

The tractor came with no attachments so I found an L12 cultivator and single bottom plow online. From what I found out, it is an L12 cultivator but has solid, inside, front shafts with no spring trips on them. Instead, there are angled pieces that look like someone fabricated to cultivate weeds. I actually fabricated a set of replacement pieces from a lawnmower blade to use until/if I get the correct shanks/trips.

I would like to get the correct front inner shanks (1 1/8" shaft I believe) with spring trips and replace the worn shovels and sweeps that are on the other C tine spring teeth. I am pretty sure the manual shows the original configuration with all shovels, but I would like to have the front outer and rear inner tines with sweeps.

This site has been the best resource for finding information about this tractor. I have hit a brick wall in not only finding original sweeps and shovels, but even replacement sweeps with the same bolt spacing (1 1/2") and shafts with spring trips.

My plan is to use this to cultivate my 80x200 garden. Mainly sweet corn, beans, peas and also for hilling potatoes. I think I can maybe find 12" discs to mount to the existing shafts, but would need to have the replacement shafts with trips for cultivating.

I am actually really excited about using this tractor. It will bring back a lot of great memories.

Any help on part numbers, resources, sources for parts (I would prefer original but would use newer if I need to) would be appreciated.

My hope is to have something that will last another 72 years and I can hand down to my grandkid, one is on the way in October.

Thanks in advance.

Mike

 

[Hotflashjr]

I am not sure on the shank size but I think anything off of an A, B or H from the time or potentially a M or 40 would work. I am
not sure you will be able to find exact ones off of a LA set up. My LA had the same cultivators and I believe had shanks from a M
on the mid mount section and what appears to be original tines on the rear.

I would try Shoup for the shovels.

eBay might be your best option for both the shanks and original shovels.

Also try the Ridenours in OH to see if they have any shanks.

 

[micdelbo]

I wanted to post an update.

I was able to locate original spring
shanks with the one and 1/8 inch
diameter shank size. I only needed
two of them but the tractor junkyard
I was at had five, so I took all of
them.

I also lucked out at the same place
and found a set of the disc hillers
and also a set of shields.

Sweeps on the other hand are proving
a little difficult to find. I'm
pretty sure the original cultivator
did not come with sweeps and if it
did I don't know what type they were.
The manual just shows a couple of
part numbers none of which I can
locate anything about online. I'm
trying to locate sweeps with either
one and a quarter inch or one and
3/16 in mounting holes in the right
pitch, which I believe is 51 to 55.

I'll keep looking but I think I'm
coming down the home stretch.

Steve Ridenour basically said good
luck and all the normal resources
such as Shoup, Herschel, CNH, JD, etc
don't seem to have anything in the
correct hole spacing.

Mike

 

[J.Wondergem]

My Dad replaced the shields with disks. turned them to throw the dirt out away from the plants when they were little, then turned them to throw the dirt back in when the plants got higher to cover the weeds. That was on a 36 JD B. But I think it would work the same on any cultivator.

 

[micdelbo]

I wanted to post an update.

I was able to locate original spring
shanks with the one and 1/8 inch
diameter shank size. I only needed
two of them but the tractor junkyard
I was at had five, so I took all of
them.

I also lucked out at the same place
and found a set of the disc hillers
and also a set of shields.

Sweeps on the other hand are proving
a little difficult to find. I'm
pretty sure the original cultivator
did not come with sweeps and if it
did I don't know what type they were.
The manual just shows a couple of
part numbers none of which I can
locate anything about online. I'm
trying to locate sweeps with either
one and a quarter inch or one and
3/16 in mounting holes in the right
pitch, which I believe is 51 to 55.

I ended up using a set of JD 850N
sweeps I found on eBay that had 1
inch and a half hole spacing and just
ground the 2nd hole into a slot with
a die grinder ang carbide bit.
Worked great and fit nicely.

Steve Ridenour basically said good
luck and all the normal resources
such as Shoup, Herschel, CNH, JD, etc
don't seem to have anything in the
correct hole spacing.

Mike

 

[micdelbo]

Sorry for the double post.