What is that?

P. Coltrane · Mar 17, 2020

Does anybody remember what is mounted on the tractor, i think an 806 in the opening credits/theme song of "Dallas" it is mounted on the side frame rails, had folding markers on it. I've ever see one of those up here. Was watching YouTube tv show theme songs from shows my folks watched when i was young. Just curious. Thanks

Bob · Mar 17, 2020

https://youtu.be/8sKX3tWaOew

0:24 mark.

kcm.MN · Mar 17, 2020

I'd say likely a cultivator. First 3 pics are from the show opening.

Bob · Mar 17, 2020

Looks to me like planter, fertilizer, or insecticide units mounted to the bar.

Why would a cultivator need markers?

kcm.MN · Mar 17, 2020

(quoted from post at 20:34:14 03/17/20)
Why would a cultivator need markers?

Bob, you silly man. For the same reason I answer questions I have no clue about! *hehe*

paul · Mar 18, 2020

I often wondered about that too, it always looked to me like a cultivator with markers.

kcm.MN · Mar 18, 2020

The markers are throwing me off as well. Originally I thought a planter or sprayer, but couldn't find anything similar. Be darned if P. Coltrane didn't have an excellent question there!

Maybe some sort of modified system?

Bob · Mar 18, 2020

(quoted from post at 01:12:06 03/18/20) The markers are throwing me off as well. Originally I thought a planter or sprayer, but couldn't find anything similar. Be darned if P. Coltrane didn't have an excellent question there!

Maybe some sort of modified system?

"but couldn't find anything similar"

There's all sorts of specialized aftermarket or "shortline" ag equipment makers, from big national outfits all the way down to local welding shops, so there's all sorts of possibilities, I suppose it could even have been cobbled together as a movie prop?

onefarmer · Mar 18, 2020

Could it be they are making hills for some kind of hill planting?

Tx Jim · Mar 18, 2020

(quoted from post at 05:36:16 03/18/20) Could it be they are making hills for some kind of hill planting?

DITTO frt mount attachment could be row bedders? I don't know if IHC offered frt bedders with row markers but I know JD did.

Farmer Rock · Mar 18, 2020

From the first 3 pictures it looks like a mounted sprayer,but it's strange because the inner part looks like a cultivator,but maybe its some type of leveling system?

Rock

jm. · Mar 18, 2020

Here is my guess as I have seen in the Florida vegetable growers . They worked the ground up then used an outfit like that to hill up rows before they went back with setters for the vegetables. Someone mentioned cultivator with markers , that was about what it was. My memories from late 60s early 70s.

P. Coltrane · Mar 18, 2020

Thanks for putting that on here

coshoo · Mar 18, 2020

And I have an excellent question for P. Coltrane- Is your first name Roscoe?

Texas Cowboy · Mar 18, 2020

Looks like front mounted bedders to me. In the last picture of the 806 below you can see a single shank with what looks like a buster on the left end of the toolbar. The row markers were probably from Rolla-Cone in Tulia Tx. Tony

P. Coltrane · Mar 18, 2020

Lol! No but i met him couple years before he died. Nice as they come!

fastfarmall · Mar 18, 2020

That's not the original shot, on the original Dallas show, the original was a 806 LP gas !!

old smokey · Mar 19, 2020

its what farmers up north use to refer to as a middlebuster? they would use it for tilling the field in the fall, in the spring they'ed knock the ridge down and plant were the ridge was

sandel · Mar 20, 2020

Why would you need markers for cultivator?

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