cultivators for C allis chalmers

RalphWD45

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I have an acre of sweet corn planted, and is just starting to come up. It is too much for me to hand hoe, and I can't walk enough, to follow a tiller on that many rows. I need to find a set of mounted cultivators, to fit my Allis C. I already have an old Dearborn, 3 pt rear cultivator, but can't be tearing out the corn, trying to look behind me to watch it, not to mention what that does to your neck! If anyone has a set of side mounted cultivators available, I sure would like to buy them, and get them shipped, as soon as possible. My E mail is open. Thanks, Ralph.
 
In my neck of the woods a little scarce sure would like to have a c with cultivators or a wc!!! good luck.
 
I sure understand you predicament. I have a B with a one row cultivator that I used when I raised pumpkins. Trying to look under the center of the tractor was a killer. I bought a G where I could see down the center between my legs. I can't see to back up to hitch to implements the first time anymore. I bought a bunch of C's over the years and never got a set of cultivators. I wish you luck.
 
Cultivators for most any tractor are getting hard to find any more. I had a set for a Farmall B and I put them up for sale on here and some one from New Mexico drove all the way to Missouri to get them
 
I have some but am in Virginia,plus in a garden I would only use 1 set on the tractor that way they'll be out where you can see them plus you can cultivate more precisely with just one set.Also if you planted by hand or used a 1 row planter to plant you'll never be able to make a 2 row set up work anyway.
 
agree,
I had a full set of cultivators on my D14, we set tobacco with a one row setter,
so I just locked one side up and cultivated the tobacco with the one row.

the front cultivators on the D14 did a great job, you could see your work almost like hoeing the crop.

now I have a TO35 Ferguson and use a one row cultivator behind it, what a pain,
I guess if you never had used a tractor with a front set of cultivators, you would not know what you were missing, using rear cultivators.

I just happen up on that set many, many years ago, I think you are going to have a hard time finding a set for your tractor,
you may just have to bite the bullet and buy a 3 pt hitch conversion for your tractor and buy a 3pt hitch two row cultivator, they are cheap. as no one cultivates crops anymore.
 
one other thing you could do that might help.

find a large rear view truck type mirror and mount it so you can see the row,

be sure you have good to excellent side stabilizers for you cultivator,
you will never be able to use a rear cultivator without bars to stabilize the cultivator.
also the cultivator must have a guide wheel disc to stabilize its side motion.

this might be easiest solution for you.
picture of my old two row cultivator with guide wheel,

again, good hunting for the set of front cultivators, but if a guy had them he probably knows just how rare they are and you might be better off buying you an A farmall with under belly cultivators
this tractor was probably the best cultivating tractor ever made.
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Ralph, Portland craigslist has an AC B with cultivators. Says tractor only, but might be worth a call. If B cultivators will fit I may know of one also.
 
I have a set of ford rear cultivators, like the one in welmax's picture, and I removed all but 4 shanks, and set them for 36" centers. I used them to mark the patch off, with 36" furrows, and then planted my corn with an Earthway one row planter. I am hoping that 2 rows can be cultivated at a time, however the Idea of using 1/2 a set to do one row at a time, sounds good, but never entered my mind, till now.
 
I already have 3 pt hitches on my 52 B and my CA, and my C. I built them myself, and they work well, but I have live hydraulics on two of them, but the C still has the original hydraulic pump, which should raise cultivators ok, just not as fast as the other two tractors.
 
it might work if you left one shank on the other side positioned in the mid of a row.
that way you could balance the cultivator, otherwise I think its going to pull to the right or left which ever side you are doing the main cultivating.

that would be my thought as I used to set tobacco with a one row setter and had much experience plowing one row at a time, cultivator has to have some pull on the other side or it tends to go sideways.
 
If that were true then all 1 row offset cultivators on tractors like a Super A IH would pull to one side which they don't.An Allis C is heavy enough to keep running straight plus with
the bench seat the driver can slide to the one side and its just like cultivating with an offset tractor.
 

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