Used my CCA field cultivator today

ndaircapt · Apr 9, 2015

After cutting off and replacing some rusted bolts, resetting 7 shanks and replacing some points, I got to try my 14 foot CCA field cultivator today! 60 will pull it in plowed ground about 5 inches deep in 2nd wide open. didn't try third. ran out of traction before power. Cultivator worked well and smoothed everything out well.

vscummins · Apr 10, 2015

Nice rig thanks for posting

showcrop · Apr 10, 2015

I pulled a similar one behind my cousins Ford TW-30 for a few hours once. He uses it to smooth in front of the planter. I was going a little deeper, but now and then I would get it too deep and it would make that TW-30 grunt.

Richard G. · Apr 10, 2015

Would love to hear that 60 pulling that. Would be music for my ears. Use to love to hear my uncles old A off in the distance pulling a 5 disc tiller and sometimes it would lug down in a hard pull and sound like it was going to stall. Then would just keep on lugging an speed back up.
Then as I grew up, I spent quite a lot of years on that A and it was finally presented to me as a gift.
Richard in NW SC

donjr · Apr 10, 2015

It looks like that thing is doing a wonderful job, like around here, of finding every stone in the field. And it ought to make that 60 grunt- it's at least 4' bigger than that tractor really wants. I used to do the same sort of thing.....!! I also notice that you fellows are also growing a fine crop of houses!

flying belgian · Apr 10, 2015

It's hard to believe you can pull that thing 5" deep. If you have much acres to do, you could help your traction problem with a set of duals. We had a set of duals for our 60. Needed them to pull the 40 ft. spike tooth drag ahead of the planter.

AJB-830 · Apr 11, 2015

I think I have the same size CCA field cultivator as you. But I have a bit more power to pull mine. I am surprised a 60 can pull it. Al

fixerupper · Apr 12, 2015

My stepmom's dad pulled a 16 footer, if I remember right, behind an R in North Dakota but he didn't till deep, just deep enough to kill the weeds and conserve moisture. When we were getting set up for his farm sale in 1989 I hooked the R up to it, went out in the wheat stubble and dropped it in deep. Darned near stopped the tractor. The R had three weights per wheel plus fluid in 18.4-34's and it started digging itself down and the cultivator went down deep real quick. I was accustomed to our tight black Iowa soil that gives us fairly good traction and is too hard and compacted to let a cultivator like that one sink in if the soil hasn't been deep tilled first. I ended up buying the R and brought it to Iowa. I drained the fluid out of the tires, left the three weights on and still have enough traction to load it down good in low gear without spinning out on firm untilled ground.

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