18ft. Vibrashank 45 value?

I paid $500 for a 20' or so IH 45 with harrow (not attached) a few years ago in the middle of Iowa. I beat a neighbor with a much bigger operation by a few days at getting it. If I leave the wings folded down it stalls my gas 4020 which then digs holes.

Don't fall for the special not marathon field cultivator shovels from Shoup. They don't cut weeds except with the front two inches. The edges are blunt. Real marathon sweeps are much better at cutting weeds.

I've gone no til so I've quit using my IH-45. It may be up for sale in a year or two.

Its worth checking shanks for side play. If they've been replaced they will be tight, if they wobble like a drunken sailor, they will need to be repelaced and that gets fairly expensive, though shanks are available from Shoup, Sloan, and IH. Sometimes IH has a sale and beats both of those alternate sources.

Gerald J.

Been wonderin' if that wouldn't work. A heck of a lot cheaper than me havin' to buy a rod-weeder too.

Now, if I can just find those darned harrows. :>)

Allan

Bought this one set up on 6" centers last spring to handle my summer fallow.

After pulling it for a season, you couldn't get it away from me at gun-point. Just an excellant machine and they do a super job!

Allan

If you can buy it for around $600., use it as is until shanks start breaking, then change it to The large S tines, designed to clamp on the 2.5" tool bars. You see a lot of that being done here. You'll have to change all at the same time as depth will be different on the two shanks. You'll very likely be able to sell any decent vibra shanks.