Farmall Cub

I am looking for solid cultivator shanks for the cub. Something like illustration 8A here

http://www.cleancomputes.com/Cub/Cub%20 ... e%2013.jpg

I'd like to get some beet knives but all sources I've seen mount like these

http://www.buctraco.com/3%20Online%20Ca ... ments2.htm

Standard spring shanks are at shovel angle.

Also, does anybody sell half sweeps? I'm about to just get some full sweeps from TSC and chop off half.

-Josh
www.patchworkgardens.net

The spring trip shanks are adjustable

Guess I should have checked to see how far they adjusted first. They go all the way to vertical?

Im also thinking about maybe just mounting to "3" in

http://www.cleancomputes.com/Cub/Cub%20 ... age-29.jpg

or "4" in

http://www.cleancomputes.com/Cub/Cub%20 ... age-30.jpg

I guess these are actually standards. Just figured out the real difference between shanks and standards. Is there a good source for standards around?

what is the difference actually. my understanding is that the standard is the part that bolts to the cuff/clamp (the actual shaft), and the shank is the complete "foot" assembly.

Used ones are around, good ones will cost you $40 and up here. not so good $15 or so. some call them shanks, some call them standards and some call them feet.
Boss

I think we've called them all.

I bought half sweeps at a Big R (farm store) in Illinois. They are available.


Tom

The standard "3" or "4" in the manuals could easily be made by you or a neighbor by welding a piece of 1-1/4 round to a flat bar with holes in it. I'd think that buying the IH Cub part, or buying a whole spring-trip standard, would be too expensive just for that piece. Though, agrisupply does sell these, http://www.agrisupply.com/Shank-For-Plo ... sid=&eid=/

I remember seeing on some supplier's website that they did sell half sweeps, but they just made them themselves by cutting of one wing of a full sweep.

It seems like the flexible c-shaped flat spring-steel things are often called shanks, and the solid ones standards (like spring-trip standards) but I don't think there's an official name really. For the business ends, it's my understanding that sweeps are the triangle-pointed ones (or whatever other shape) and shovels are the narrow pointed ones. Seems a bit backwards to me, but hey.

I all - I found this older thread - read down through it I still have a question or two as usual.

I have purchased two IH Spring Release Cultivators for the Cub. I've looked at this thread, agrisupply and google shop and I'll be - I don't know which ones to buy. Given how the Cultivators are made I really don't see how two bolts hold a 12" Sweep in place.



Ken

Check on ebay for Cub Cultivator. I have bought several half-sweeps on shanks in really good condition this spring, enough to cultivate 3 rows at a time if I dare!