Cultipacker Pulls Behind Drill Or Plow

Cultipacker Pulls Behind Drill Or Plow CULTIVATORS Cultivators (58C) 21-2-8 Bill Kurtz, St. Croix Falls, Wis., used two old 6-ft. cultipackers to make a single 11-ft. wide packer that he pulls behind his grain drill when planting oats and alfalfa. He also pulls it behind his 6-bottom plow which allows him to plant corn with no further tillage. "It really works well on my sandy ground," says Kurtz. "The only time I have to disk is when I plow up sod." He made the cultipacker by moving the two 6-footers together and welding the center shafts end to end, then welded the two frames together. He pulls it with a 10-ft. long hitch behind the drill to keep the drill's wheels from interfering with the cultipacker on turns. He can disconnect the cultipacker by removing two pins. "I use wheels on the cultipacker when-ever I pull it behind the drill, but I remove them when I plow," says Kurtz. "I pull a 10-ft. wide smooth roller ahead of the drill to level out gopher mounds and clods. I used a length of 16-in. dia. well casing to make the roller and mounted it on a home-built frame that I welded to an old disk frame. I welded both ends of the well casing shut and mounted a plug on one end so I can fill it with water for extra weight. I ran a pipe through the casing and welded a 16-in. long shaft onto each end. I use the original disk cylinder to raise or lower the roller. A grader blade mounted ahead of the roller knocks the top off gopher mounds to make leveling easy." Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Bill Kurtz, 2187 State Rd. 87, St. Croix Falls, Wis. 54024 (ph 715 483-3866).

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