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James Howell

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Need "[i:654c4848f0]an unofficial ballot conducted as a test of opinion[/i:654c4848f0]" of what this implement is called.

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Mihindra, and other tractors of that ilk have what looks like that for them. They call them cultivators. I have a STH and it has ALOT more teeth than that, and the frame only sets around a foot off the ground. This frame is higher, thereby allowing the cultivation of corn. Just my guess.
 
If it was bigger,I'd call it a chisel plow,but chisel or ripper. My uncle had one just like it by the way,that he pulled with a Ford 3000.
 
Field cultivator or light light duty chisel plow but given the time frame that was manufactured could have been a lot of different names either way it does the job of a field cultivator or light chisel plow work depending if it has sweeps or chisel points
 
Years ago they were called tillers

But today I would call the tool a field cultivator

Great tools really work up the ground
 
Cultivator for previously broken up land, preferably sandy loam or softer. One of my first implements when I started this farm. I didn't know any better. I thought it looked like a plow so I bought it and attempted to "plow" Houston Black Clay in August..........chunked it at my first opportunity.
 

It is too light to be a chisel and it is nothing like the spring tooth harrow that I have out back. In this area it fits into the cultivator category. The teeth of a spring tooth harrow are the springs, so there are no additional springs on a spring tooth harrow.
 
That is a good question! I have one, and never really know what to call it so others know what I mean.....

In my northern area, it is often called a field cultivator, but it is a heavier shank than we commonly would have on a cultivator. It would almost be a light chisel plow 'here'.

Here a spring tooth harrow is a very light implement, it is sort of like side rake teeth for smoothing the soil and digging an inch or so in well worked ground. Nothing about

It is always interesting to see how machines get local regional names.

So in the south a 'harrow' can be a disk, or a heavy cultivator or light chisel plow?

Up here a 'harrow' is a drag, or whatever the lightest machine you have to lightly stir the ground after seeding, etc.

Paul
 
To me a spring tooth is a tillage tool with shanks that are springs. Each shank is in a c shape and made of spring steel with no other springs involved. This tool does not have spring shanks but instead the c shaped shanks are rigid and the spring action comes from the double coil springs. With two coil springs per shank it looks to be more of a deep tillage type tool. What’s it called? I call it a deep till cultivator.
 
I live in North East Georgia. We call that type of plow an "All Purpose Plow".
I have a 7 shank that I pull behind a Ford 3000. Mine is about 6 feet wide and covers my tracks.
 
Mostly called a ripper in my area also called a cultivator when they are set up with shovels to cultivate,used to be a popular tool with tobacco farmers.Big difference in what they sell for in different places too.
 
In 1939/'40 they were called All-Purpose cultivator. Later they were called field cultivator

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Get lost if yo ucannot say something nnice don't say it here in Missouri tha tis what it is called
 
We have a 9 tine Ferguson cultivator that we use every year to till our garden. we also take off the middle 3 shanks so we can till between the rows of our potatoes. we have sweeps on ours. also sometimes called a tiller.
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Tillage tool is what they were called when I sold them new in the 60's-80's. IMHO they don't resemble a spring tooth harrow such as 2nd photo.

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Tx Jim, your second photo shows one exactly like mine, except it is 50% wider than mine. Texas sized, LOL.
 
Thanks to all for replies on "[i:654c4848f0]naming[/i:654c4848f0]" this implement.

Used it yesterday to rework several areas that had some wild hog damage.

Also changed the title on a couple of videos that featured this implement in action over 5 years ago.

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Thanks again for your comments.
 
What did I say that wasn?t ?nice?? A spring tooth harrow is in a previous picture. If your telling me to get lost I believe your the one not being ?nice?
 
I use mine all the time for roughing up the deer food plot where it too riocky to sink a plow it the ground. Works great in the garden too.

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