Brought home a cool tool today

Ultradog MN

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Location
Twin Cities
I bought this on CL a month ago.
8' double roll cultipacker.
Seller said he was coming about 2/3 of the way here on Aug. 31st so if I was willing to wait he would bring it along that far.
I did.
So we met in the Wal Mart parking lot in Menomonie WI today and I winched it off of his trailer onto mine.
I've been looking for one at a reasonable price for 3 or 4 years now.
Patience paid off.
It has a crack in the end frame which you can see in the second photo. But I can fix that pretty easy.
I'm pretty happy to get it so gotta show it off a little if you don't mind.

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A thing of beauty for sure! Talk about good old quality and durability!

What song did you have to sing to get it? :)
 
Looks good to me, nice find!
I've seen pictures of your welding, that crack shouldn't even be
a challenge. Question is, what color to paint it? I'd guess blue?
 
I couldnt find one, so I took a 5 foot piece of corregated culvert and welded a plate on each end. I put bearings and a hitch on it and filled it with sand. I works great for clover seed etc.
 
Nice! I need something like that at the hunting cabin. Its such sandy soil I bet my deer plots would do better with something like that than just dragging after seeding.
 
great find
been on my list too for quite some time.
never cheap enough for me at auctions, still in demand here big or small.
The giant ones are too big for my trails, and the smaller ones,
especially the about 8 foot ones, and the doubles are crazy money.

Might try that culvert idea.......nice
 
JimmyJack, I was thinking along those lines myself. Was going to fill one with concrete but never got around to it
I used to use an old bedspring.
Royce, I will just fix it but probably no paint. I took the end bracket off yesterday to fix the crack. - all the bolts actually came loose. One of the wooden bearings is worn pretty bad too so I will figure out some way to fix it.
Hobo, The trouble is it wont fit in a flat rate box to get it down there.
Duey, Yeah the deer love me but they don't know I have ulterior motives for feeding them.
Terry, As long as it took to find this maybe the right song would have been Ave Maria.
Thanks to all.

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I have much better germination than when I dragged the seed in. 1/4 inch is plenty, in fact it worked pretty well when I just ran it over with a 4 wheeler. I can send a picture of the culvert cultipacter if anyone needs it.
 
Yes, do post a photo or two.
Folks use the search function here a lot and if they were searching for home made cultipacker ideas your photos might be helpful.
 

I'm still trying to figure out it's primary purpose.
At first I thought it was for compressing the soil, like a sand filled roller but then the posts about seeding came along. :)
 
UD, glad u got it at a good price and a partial delivery is nice too. I spent yesterday driving to pick some stuff up n the old truck gettin about 12/gal. U might wanna just leave all that opera to the pros tho.
 
I guess I just like paint to prevent rust.
I fixed the wooden bearings in my roller with a piece of Hickory
and some grease. Not sure, but you could probably do the same.
Come to think if it, my roller's not painted either......
 

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