Pittsburgh Field Cultivator Gauge Wheels

[Winfield Dave]

[Jim Becker]

If this explanation and the existing pictures aren't clear enough, let me know and I'll take another picture. Let me know if you want exact dimensions of the angle iron and holes.

I took some additional pictures and drew up the bracket. This bracket worked out fine with the gauge wheel parts I had. If you want to do something like it, you may have to make changes to go with your gauge wheels. My parts came off a round (pipe) frame cultivator. The u-bolts that came with them are longer than for a square frame. I had to use inch long spacers on them. You can see them in the new pictures.

The wheels are very close to the rear tractor tires. In fact, if I crank the front of the Fast-Hitch up they can touch. The forward (unused) hole in the bracket lets you move the blue brackets forward, which would be usable with a Lo-Boy. It could also be used if the wheels were reversed to angle back rather than forward.

[SamsFarm]

Your gonna need some wheel weights on your Cub to pull that!

[CapeCodCubs]

Thanks for posting the additional pictures, the mounting details are food for thought. I also appreciate the manufacturing back story which is something I enjoy just as much as owning a Cub.

[SamsFarm]

In your rusty pre painted pic, there is a extra set of mounting brackets on each end. Looks to be the same as the ones that hold the cultivator shanks, but they are turned around.

Was them on there for a set of round shank gauge wheels?

Do you have any literature / brochure for this nice piece?

I guess it would be possable to add a front row of shanks, or stagger the ones there.

I wonder why they put that bar on clamping all the spring tines together. ???

[CapeCodCubs]

In your rusty pre painted pic, there is a extra set of mounting brackets on each end. Looks to be the same as the ones that hold the cultivator shanks, but they are turned around.

Was them on there for a set of round shank gauge wheels?

That was for putting the rake on when it was used a rake. Roseman Rake. Do a google search for one...or here is a link. That is our rake in the pictures.

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[Jim Becker]

I put the extra brackets back on. They don't stand out as much in the after pictures. They are identical to the others that are holding teeth. I have one ad for Pittsburgh (1966). It doesn't show a lot of detail, but it appears the same brackets were used for multiple attachments, including the Roseman Rake CapeCodCubs has. It looks like their gauge wheel attachment used them. Interestingly, the exact tooling combination I have seems to have been very common with the Ford and Ferguson versions, but it is not shown in this ad. Set-up on these cultivators was quite flexible as the brackets can be reversed to move tools fore/aft and the round parts that clamp to them can be adjusted vertically and turned to position fore/aft as well as sideways. I suppose the bar clamped across the spring teeth adds some stability to each one in hard ground.

I believe Barnyard posted some other literature into an earlier thread.

Pittsburgh ad from 1966

[SamsFarm]

Interesting!

Thank you!