Ford 900 cultivators

grandpa Love · Oct 7, 2020

I saw this ad and got to wondering if anyone on here has used a set like these? How hard to find a complete set? Not useful in the hay field, but we grow a big garden!

larry@stinescorner · Oct 7, 2020

use the cub,,easy to find cultivators for,,,and better for garden,,I know we love FORDS,,but,,listen to me!!!!! lol

formerly ny bill · Oct 7, 2020

what Larry said.
I have a front 2 row set for the Super C/200, and I have used a 3pt 4 row on the 3010, once when the spray failed. The only best part of that exercise was, nobody could find me to bother me for several hours.

RBnWA · Oct 7, 2020

Cultivated with a Z moline when i was a kid. RB

Richard G. · Oct 7, 2020

Kevin, the Cub is the way to go.
I enjoy cultivating with my 1942 JD H using it as a one row unit on one side.
Listening to that 2 cylinder is in my blood.
But, the Cub was probably the best garden tractor ever made.
Big cotton farmer near here who died many years ago, would send one of his boys out into the big fields to cultivate cotton.
He could have used one of those Ford units.
Another really big cotton farmer near here used JD A's and sent his sons out to cultivate with.
Could here those things at night for miles.
Music to my ears.
Richard

Jim in NC · Oct 7, 2020

Since you have a cub, I say use it. I have had and used them, but my preferred choice for a one row cultivating tractor would be a Super A or a 140. More power, ground clearance, faster, and will work the soil deeper. We used to grow tobacco, and my crop was usually cultivated at least 4 times up to layby. At 10 acres of tobacco, I cultivated an average of 40 acres in a season.

Dean · Oct 7, 2020

OK for field corn but cumbersome for just about any garden.

Dean

Traditional Farmer · Oct 7, 2020

As everyone said cub is the way to go, good cultivator plus side dressers and planters are usually pretty easy to come by.

DeltaSteve · Oct 7, 2020

I remember from when I was a kid a neighbor had one.Had a single front tire and was set up to do 6 22" sugarbeet rows.

steve_in_mo · Oct 7, 2020

We ran a four-row mounted front cultivator on a Farmall M.
That will really build up your arm and shoulder muscles.
A neighbor ran a four-row front mounted cultivator on a John Deere 70.
I envied that power steering.
I wouldn't recommend either one for a house garden.

The biggest commercial gardener around when I was growing up used a Farmall Cub.
He grew about ten acres of flowers for his flower shop.
He spent a couple of days each spring plowing the whole garden with that cub.

DeltaSteve · Oct 7, 2020

A highschool teacher of mine grew a 5 acre flower garden. Sold iris bulbs and flowers. Did it all with a JohnDeere L.One 12" plow bottom,little disk,one section harrow......

DeltaSteve · Oct 7, 2020

Agree onthe Cub. equipment is plentiful for them.Handy,easy to manuver.

paul · Oct 7, 2020

Yea I spent a lot of hours on the 960 and a 4 row cultivator like that. The pipes going back to the 3pt to raise and lower it make it interesting to get on and off, feel like you have a roll cage around you!

Paul

Smalltowner · Oct 7, 2020

Nice sales brochure, haven’t seen that one. I remember our local ford dealership had a new 900 in his showroom with 4 row cultivators and 4 row planters on rear. I was about 10 yrs old and thought it was beautiful. But it sat there for months unsold. Local cotton farmers had moved up to 6 and 8 row equipment of other brands. Dad said dealer finally traded to another dealer.

Repairman60 · Oct 7, 2020

You need a 501 offset Ford!

grandpa Love · Oct 7, 2020

I sure do need a 501.

Hobo,NC · Oct 7, 2020

A Farmall 100,130,140 life will be good... Use the ford to break and disc... I have my farmalls set up to do one chore they all do it good and can not be beat.. I have a 100 set up to hill and cultivate a 140 with rolling cultivators. I was told once I got the rolling cultivators set up right I would not take them off he was right...

I had a cub (had two of them ) what a poor excuse for a tractor : ( I sold them...

Jim in NC · Oct 7, 2020

Hobo, how much gardening are doing these days?

Hobo,NC · Oct 7, 2020

Not much, 50 maters and some other things my picker and canner passed away... I still help the neighbors with the dirt work in their garden...

I did get back into corn cuzz the tractor driver loves to cultivate corn : ) I put up 60 ears and gave the rest away...

johnlobb · Oct 8, 2020

I had always heard the Allis Chalmers G was the best cultivating small tractor. I'm surprised no one mentioned it?

Traditional Farmer · Oct 8, 2020

He doesn't own a G,but in the case of a G I have a G clone called a Hines H-1600 has hydraulic lift front and rear,hyrastatic drive,more power and a lot easier to get on and off much better than the G's I have owned.

grandpa Love · Oct 8, 2020

I would live to have a G. Too expensive for me.lol

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