Whats this tool bar from?

[AlanPCUBS]

Saw this on e-bay and was wondering which imp. it was from or is?
http://cgi.ebay.com/IH-FARMALL-CUB-TOOL ... dZViewItem

ty Alan

[LabadieBill]

Ty,

It's a middle buster. The tool bar is set up to hook into the front cultivator mounts. Some people use them to open a furrow for planting potatoes or other vegetables.

Bill

[Brandon Webb]

It's the optional furrowing atachment that mounts on a Cub runner planter I know a 174, probably all planters that use the similiar runner design. It's shown here:

[Rudi]

Alan:



Yup, that is what it is.. a lay off plow or similar to a middle buster. That is exactly what I had been looking for to aid in planting my taters. It is a pretty good little tool.

They can be mounted directly onto the cultivator tool bars as well. I just had one given to me that will mount up nicely.

Great kit to have, if it is close.

[Super A]

They call it a "bull tongue" in these parts.....

We figured out a good way to plant taters using the disk hillers: (the ones with the offset shank, not the straight one) You first turn them backwards, so they are throwing the dirt out instead of in. When working this gives you a side by side trench with a tiny ridge in the center, like between the gangs of a single action disk. Drop the taters, we actually drop the taters on one side of the of the "ridge" and put fertilizer on the other side. The ridge keeps the tates off the fertilizer. Then, turn the hillers around the "right" way and throw the row up.

We actually make our garden rows the same way. "Throw them out," add fertilizer by hand, and "ridge it back up."

Al

Al

[George Willer]

They call it a "bull tongue" in these parts.....

We figured out a good way to plant taters using the disk hillers: (the ones with the offset shank, not the straight one) You first turn them backwards, so they are throwing the dirt out instead of in. When working this gives you a side by side trench with a tiny ridge in the center, like between the gangs of a single action disk. Drop the taters, we actually drop the taters on one side of the of the "ridge" and put fertilizer on the other side. The ridge keeps the tates off the fertilizer. Then, turn the hillers around the "right" way and throw the row up.

We actually make our garden rows the same way. "Throw them out," add fertilizer by hand, and "ridge it back up."

Al

Al,

That sounds like a great method!!!

[(CUB HUT)]

AlanPCUBS
In the picture look in front of the planter---the red bar holding the disc hillers is the one you ask about. DAVE

[Super A]

They call it a "bull tongue" in these parts.....

We figured out a good way to plant taters using the disk hillers: (the ones with the offset shank, not the straight one) You first turn them backwards, so they are throwing the dirt out instead of in. When working this gives you a side by side trench with a tiny ridge in the center, like between the gangs of a single action disk. Drop the taters, we actually drop the taters on one side of the of the "ridge" and put fertilizer on the other side. The ridge keeps the tates off the fertilizer. Then, turn the hillers around the "right" way and throw the row up.

We actually make our garden rows the same way. "Throw them out," add fertilizer by hand, and "ridge it back up."

Al

Al,

That sounds like a great method!!!

George, not to get too far off the topic of the original thread, but we've done it this way for years in the garden. On the taters, it probably really puts them a little "too" deep as they may be a little slow to emerge but they push on through and do fine, and you end up with a nice deep row where the potatoes actually develop. Also, I can't prove it but I believe it protects them when they are young and you get a cold snap--deeper root system. Keep in mind this is in light, sandy soil. If the ground is heavier, the furrowing attachment may get in the ground deeper.

As far as making the garden rows this way, I think the logic was, they didn't want to put the fert. attachment on, simply for 6-8 garden rows.

Often what you see people here do, if they do have the fertilizer attachment on, is they use the layoff plow/bulltongue/etc. on the toolbar as illustrated, with the fertilizer spout dropped down just behind that. Then they have the hillers on also in order to furrow, apply fertilizer, and ridge the row all at one time. The setup looks similar to the picture Cub Hut posted, minus the planter.

One of these days, if I can make the time, I will try to use the tools I have to take some pictures of the different way you can set up hillers, rolling cultivators, potato hillers, (tobacco plows) etc. if it would be of any use to anyone.

Al

[Buzzard Wing]

Dang Cub Hut you got a fancy step there!

Seriously that is a wicked nice rig. I am still trying to figure out the cultivators that came with mine. I never knew you could hang so much off a Cub at one time!

Larry

[(CUB HUT)]

Larry

More than A good man can pick up with the hand lift

[Buzzard Wing]

Yikes! Couldn't see the TC was missing behind all the other stuff. Now I see the lever.

My #3 has a manual lift and I am thinking of making it a mowing machine, but I hope that is pretty reasonable to lift a Woods 59