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I have several pieces of equipment that I am going to sell but have no idea what is their value. I thought I'd use the experts on this forum for any information.

I'll combine a couple of pieces on this thread. I have a four row (five cutter) cultivator, an 8' drag (two pieces), and a 10' pull behind rotary hoe. Do not know the age/history of these. All have been outside storage for a long time (notice size of trees grown in front of them).

What the heck is that middle pic? Never seen anything like that. I know what spring tooth and spike tooth harrows are, and that sure isn?t?

Paul

We always called it a "drag". Would pull behind tractor to smooth/level area. Normally throw some weight on it to get the "cutters" to break up the soil. Normally used it after the disk on loose soil. My dad used it in the fields sometimes, also used on our church softball diamond.

Of course it is standing on it's tail end in the picture. When in use it would lie flat and has a chain to pull.

Bottom picture is a rotary hoe for cultivating crops just as they are trying to get thru the crust to help emerge and get rid of tiny weeds. Should have a stif toung. Not worth more than scrap or yard art. Now if it was a Deere then it would have value.

That is a design I?ve never seen before in a drag.

I would say the plow and disk you will get rid of nicely.

The planter you might need to wait a while to find an Oliver collector to decide he just has to have it. Person would want to know how the seed boxes look, assuming it?s
a plate planter what plates it has, and what the inside of the fert tubs look like. It might actually be worth something, I live amongst a very strong Oliver fan area, and
really haven?t seen Oliver planters? That musta come from right near hen Oliver got bought out and ended.

The wagon might make a nice fall display piece for the right person or a pumpkin/ sweet corn seller. It might be of interest to someone without hydraulics on a tractor to
haul a little feed if it does work manually. Or it might not get ant interest at all, tough to judge.

The rest is just kinda iron, I?ve no idea if that drag is something special, the rolling weeder looks cute but light and they kinda plug up easy, the 4 row row cultivator sells
for scrap around here.

You can sell it all if it?s cheap enough, if you want to hold out for the high end some of those items you will be holding a long time they were left sitting maybe for a
reason.... An auction gets rid of it you never know who shows up, which pieces go good or bad that day, the commission these days is pretty high.

Paul

The second picture is a Soil Surgeon. The last time I seen one at an auction it sold for a lot more than scrap.
The third picture is a rotary hoe, if the wheels are cast iron it is a Dunham. If the wheels are pressed steel it is a General Implement

Middle picture very hard to tell what it is. From what I can see looks like a soil sergon(?). Knives under drag to cut up the chunks of soil. They were made in two types one with the teeth bolted tp a channel iron and the other on bottom of a pan that could be loaded for weight. The harogater replaced them and does the same thing.

I went online and googled soil surgeon and found a picture of a 1952 version which looked identical except it was a nice green rather than rust red!!

Thanks for the inputs!!

The first picture is a Oliver cultivator.

Leroy would a soil surgeon work behind a plow ?

Should work but for pulling something like that they had a special hitch to hold things over to the right I am talking one way plows, not the roll over, for that you would need a way for that hitch to reverse from right to left. On the older small plows and I am talking 2 or 3 bottom the load wanted to pull the back end ov plow to left out of the furrow. With your bigger plows I dont think that would be a peoblem. For hitch ideas look up plow packer as they had the hitch to do that. We tried using a single section of the rotary hoe like that. Did not do enough good in our ground to keep at it.

Rode many a hundred miles on ours (my brother too)..!!

Best tool you ever saw for 1st time over plowed ground..Levels as it makes a seed-bed..works sod Down, so a disc does not work it up into the seed-bed..

We would roll off and have any large rocks ready to toss/roll on..

Kept a short handled shovel on it to shovel soil off as weight of rocks increased..

Always pulled mine with a late Styled JD "B", usually in 4th gear..They are easy to steer on plowed ground..

Mine is completely rebuilt..Bought the last new knives for it and had more made at "Gingrich" in Plain City, Ohio..

Easy to empty..just hook on the reverse side, and pull it over upside down and it is ready to go down the road..!

Originally, those knives were over 4 1/2" deep...!

I have thought about trying to drag something behind to help smooth out the ground behind the plow but haven?t decided what to use or if it would even be worth it most of our ground is to heavy for anything to much good might could get something to work in stubble ground . I see the guys out west of here drag a section of ring packer behind their two way plows and just a long chain so when they roll it over the chain can flip over and the packer tags along .

Around here you do not want to put a packer on the ground that soon, to damp and would make a mess. Years ago an old neighbor had takenan old horse drawn disk and made a about 3' wide tandem disk, offset type, out of it. Think he only had a 2-12" plow pulled at that time with a 41 JD B as hid 1919 Happy Farmer tractor had given up by that time. That tractor only had one speed forward. I never saw it run but stories said hewould start that Happy down the furrow with the 3-12" plows, get off and jump on the B with disk and beat the Happy to other end of field and get off and turn Happy around and do it all over again. He might have riged up that disk for the Happy. He passed at 69 in 59 and I was 13 at the time but remember his homemade dist at the auction. I did for a time have a unit made for that, was heavy and had a set of rolling wheels in frame at fixed angls somthing like a Lilliston cultivator wheel set to roll backwards. It was about 4' wide just the right size for a 3-14" plow but sold it as at that time I only had a 2-12" plow and was too big for that outfit. Stupid me when I got a bigger tractor I wished I had it pack. Never saw one since, that was back in the 60's, someware I have a bit of sales lit on it but where? You could make something simular.

And the name of my township is Clay and the bricks for my grandparents house were doug out of field in front of house and fired on the farm.