rod weeder

[crowspond]

still looking for older around 10 ft used rod weeder . i am located in ky any leads appreciated . thanks crowspond

 

[Jim.ME]

still looking for older around 10 ft used rod weeder . i am located in ky any leads appreciated . thanks crowspond

Have you tried posting a wanted ad in the classified ads section here?

 

[crowspond]

no i have not but i appreciate the suggestion

 

[MarkB_MI]

That is a remarkably small rod weeder. Out west, where they were once common, they're typically 30 feet wide or more. Maybe you could find a thirty foot Flex-King and cut off the outer wings. I have a cousin who picks up used rod weeders for a song and uses them to build miniature circular sprinklers.

 

[crowspond]

mark maybe your cousin cold help me out . The older ones i believe were 10 foot sections pulled with a squadron hitch to be a lot wider pulling 3 or 4 sections at a time depent on avaible horsepower thanks for the reply

 

[MarkB_MI]

mark maybe your cousin cold help me out . The older ones i believe were 10 foot sections pulled with a squadron hitch to be a lot wider pulling 3 or 4 sections at a time depent on avaible horsepower thanks for the reply

My cousin is about a thousand miles from you over in eastern Colorado. And he's had to give up mini-sprinkler fabrication because of his health. So I don't think he can help you. He was using old Flex-King rod weeders to make his sprinklers.

It sounds like you're looking for machines built back in the forties or fifties. Finding parts for these could be a problem.

I'm a bit surprised even want to use a rod weeder. I always thought of them as strictly summer fallow implements, not something you'd ever use east of the Mississippi. And chemical fallow has largely replaced summer fallow tillage out west.

 

[crowspond]

i am just a small farmer . wanted to try one for awhile just a idea i have be a nice trip to see diffrent part of the country. thanks for the reply maybe something will turn up

 

[Bill in Colo]

I have 12'ft John Deere in near new condition, last used in 1984 likely new in 1960.