identify cultivator manufacturer

dxtrcatl

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I have an old cultivator(?) that I am trying to identify the manufacturer. The hangers for the axle are cast with an "A21" in the casting on the axle side, the axle caps are stamped S14 on the ends, the toothed sprockets are cast also with "PATD 2 15 27" cast into them. The axle caps have zert fittings and and appear to have wooden inserts instead of bearings. I have attached some pictures and would appreciate any help I can get.
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Cultipacker and those notched wheels are called a sprocket wheel. Very good for clay type of ground that doesn't like to crumble well but will crust over easy. If all the packer wheel typr it makes a perfect surface hard on top that will crust easy but with those sprocket wheels the packing is slightly under the surface with a thin layer of unpacked on top that will not crust as bad. Perfect to pull behind a grain drill to firm the seed in but not leave that crusting surface. Used that type for years behind the disk, field cultivator and grain drill. To cold and snowy to go out to check some parts to tell if a Brillion. Dunham had different bearings and Avery-Moline used a different frame. Brillion was sold by Deere at that time and Deere did not have a packer under their name. Never seen McCormick have those sprocket wheels.
 
Looks similar to a Dunham, Leroy or Chattanooga, all of which I have run across, but all three of those always have the name cast into the end hangers . . . .
 
Dunhan does not have that type of loose bearing housing. All I have see is Brillion, Parted out one years ago before I knew what it was.All Dunham the bearing housing is built into the cast ends of the frame.
 
Tim, where did you ever here of a Leroy brand as that is my name. Have heard of the Chattanooga line of machinery but never seen any as it was not sold here in northwestern Ohio.
 
Thanks Scott, I had figured out that much, I simply added that as additional info to help identify the unit.
 
Thanks Charlie for the pictures.

I've attached some additional pictures of my unit. Please note the notch in the axle hanger and the raised bar on the axle cap (1st and 2nd picture). The one cap is inserted from the inside to the outside then the axle is pushed all the way in. The other cap is then placed in the same manner at the other end and the axle is centered between the caps. There are two bolt together spacers (3rd picture), one for each side, that keep the axle centered and keeps the caps in place. There are no bearings in the caps, but they once had wooden inserts (small pieces on end of 4X4 in 3rd picture)to serve as bushings/bearings. Also note the jig bent bolts in 4th picture.
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(quoted from post at 10:24:12 01/25/14) I have an old cultivator(?) that I am trying to identify the manufacturer. ...... the toothed sprockets are cast also with "PATD 2 15 27" cast into them........
rillion Iron Works was issued patent US1617821 A for a "Sprocket-type soil pulverizer" on that day.
(Copy and paste the patent number listed into Google.)
 
Don't know how to copy and past so tried typing that number in and everythin else but it came up.
 
Where I came from, they called them rollar packers. I have a 3 section one with no name on it that I assume is a Brillion. I use it after drilling down seed.
 
Thanks Barite, you hit it right on the head! I guess it will be hard to find parts, but at least I now have the manufacturer. Thanks again, Dxtrcatl
 
What parts do you need?
may not be that hard. Wheels are interchangeable from one make to anouther.
 
Those wood boxings as they are called are easy to make if you have the tools. Use a hard maple to make them and soak in a bucket of oil for a month before installing them. A good machine shop if the holes in the bearing housing are worn can turn them and put in a sleeve to bring back to normal. Just last summer for a friend that had the Brillion cultimulcher, 2 rollers with 2 rows of teeth, that there was nothing left on top side in bearing housing and axle shaft was worn way away the machine shop and with no electricity bored out those bearing housings for a sleeve, put a sleeve on the wore axle and made new roller bearings for it and should last for years. The previous owner looked like he never used a grease gun on those 2 bearings. And I might have those bearing housings. When it warms up I can check but was about 17 below last night. email opened.
 
Just checked and my bearing housings are a bit different but a good shop could make them even if you did not have any old ones to repair. And mine had loose rollers in for bearings so it was a later model.
 

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