Snap coupler field cultivator?
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Topic: Snap coupler field cultivator?
Posted By: Dan Hauter
Subject: Snap coupler field cultivator?
Date Posted: 29 Apr 2020 at 8:49pm
| Did Allis-Chalmers ever make a snap coupler field cultivator? Not a row crop cultivator but a light tillage tool? |
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Posted By: tomstractorsandtoys
Date Posted: 29 Apr 2020 at 10:03pm
Yes. Dad bought one at a consignment sale about a 10-12 footer. I never saw it because the next day a collector called and wanted it real bad. He got over twice what he paid and did not have to haul it. Tom |
Posted By: wjohn
Date Posted: 29 Apr 2020 at 10:11pm
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This was one version. I picked this up last year from a forum member. It's currently set up for a pre-Snap Coupler WD but I also have the Snap Coupler drawbar. I believe there was a heavier version possibly made by the Oxnard Works as well. 
------------- 1939 B, 1940 B, 1941 WC, 1951 WD, 1952 CA, 1956 WD-45 |
Posted By: Steve A
Date Posted: 30 Apr 2020 at 7:05am
| I have one that my neighbor gave me 20 years ago. Similar, but the brackets are made of 3/4" X 3" heavy flat stock and adjustable. Somebody torched off the snap set up and put on 3 point attachments long before I got it. I was going to take it to Dads, put it on the 170, and try using it along with a disk to work up a couple of sandy loam fields. |
Posted By: Roach
Date Posted: 30 Apr 2020 at 8:54am
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I've got a 12 footer that I converted to 3 point back in the late 70's. I will try and get some pics in the next couple days. Still use it once in a while for food plots and gardens. ------------- 1937 WC, 1948 G,1954 CA,1956 WD45, 1967 D17, 1937 M crawler, 1963 D-19, 1966 190XT, 1967 D-15, 1948 HG42 Cletrac, 1955 G456 Terra Trac, CAT 10 1928 and CAT 22 1938 |
Posted By: Dave (NE)
Date Posted: 30 Apr 2020 at 8:56am
I have an 8' one. Like it a lot. Does a nice job. If this works right, following are some pictures.   ------------- Do not argue with an idiot. He will drag you down to his level and beat you with experience. Mark Twain. |
Posted By: Steve A
Date Posted: 30 Apr 2020 at 9:38am
| Just went out and looked at mine again, loosened the bolts with ATF and adjusted it. It's the same model as the others. What grade bolts did they use to hold the cultivator shanks? |
Posted By: IBWD MIke
Date Posted: 30 Apr 2020 at 2:52pm
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I'd like to have one some day. I have work for a small cultivator. |
Posted By: Ed (Ont)
Date Posted: 30 Apr 2020 at 3:59pm
| We had one of those on the farm. Worked well! |
Posted By: wjohn
Date Posted: 30 Apr 2020 at 8:22pm
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How robust are they? I have a couple of small fields that used to be old town lots and there are a few pieces of brick, chunks of rock, etc. but probably nothing that's like bedrock sticking out of the ground. I don't think the tines are available anywhere so I'm concerned about tearing it up. ------------- 1939 B, 1940 B, 1941 WC, 1951 WD, 1952 CA, 1956 WD-45 |
Posted By: Roach
Date Posted: 01 May 2020 at 1:08pm
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They are pretty tough and I would not worry about bricks and smaller rocks. The only problem I ever had is if I had too much ground cover that I had not disc up and then it would plug up. Other than that they do a good job. I need new spear points someday. ------------- 1937 WC, 1948 G,1954 CA,1956 WD45, 1967 D17, 1937 M crawler, 1963 D-19, 1966 190XT, 1967 D-15, 1948 HG42 Cletrac, 1955 G456 Terra Trac, CAT 10 1928 and CAT 22 1938 |
Posted By: truckerfarmer
Date Posted: 02 May 2020 at 6:49am
  Here's a couple pics of mine from when I first got it. It had a couple broken tines when I got it. And I broke another 1 or 2 trying to used it after plowing. Right now it is set up to cultivate potatoes with hiller discs. ------------- Looking at the past to see the future. '53 WD, '53 WD45, WD snap coupler field cultivator, #53 plow,'53 HD5B dozer Duct tape.... Can't fix stupidity. But will muffle the sound of it! |