Colin King
Well-known Member
I wanted to build a tool bar this spring for raising beds. Instead of building from new, I thought I could use a set of unused coulters from my plow and the little used cultivator. I removed all of the shanks from the cultivator and set the coulters and shanks at the spacing I was looking for. I then used allthread to keep the coulters from swinging around.
The allthread was not stout enough to hold the coulters in place. It wanted to bend. While raising beds, I kept to the time honored tradition of holding my machine together with bailing wire - tying the coulters together. It worked pretty well. And I put to use two pieces of equipment that rarely get used on our farm, while saving me at least a day's worth of back-breaking manual labor. With the exception of $12.00 in hardware (allthread and nuts/washers), this implement cost me nothing. I'm pretty happy with the results. Using stabilizer bars next year will help keep my rows a bit straighter.
Colin, MN
The allthread was not stout enough to hold the coulters in place. It wanted to bend. While raising beds, I kept to the time honored tradition of holding my machine together with bailing wire - tying the coulters together. It worked pretty well. And I put to use two pieces of equipment that rarely get used on our farm, while saving me at least a day's worth of back-breaking manual labor. With the exception of $12.00 in hardware (allthread and nuts/washers), this implement cost me nothing. I'm pretty happy with the results. Using stabilizer bars next year will help keep my rows a bit straighter.
Colin, MN
