High wheel cultivator

[Randy Rooster]

I got one as a gift yesterday for doing some unpleasant work for a neighbor. Its new and has 3 different attachment- a 5 tine for cultivating, a small shovel that would be good for making rows for planting and a small side sweep. Im just wondering if any one uses them anymore and might have some pictures or suggestions for getting the full benefit out of them.

[veggrower]

I love those things. I use the optional slicing hoe, which can be purchased from Heirloom Acres for about $25. It is what is called a stirrup hoe, and oscillating hoe or a hula hoe.

My Grandma used an old one to keep her large garden spotless well into her 70s. The big wheel gives you a lot of leverage.

The 5-tine cult is good for mixing in compost, manure, fert, lime etc. It is best used when the weeds are small from pinhead size up to about 1 inch. The slicing how will get out bigger weeds, but any cultivator is best used when the weeds are small. The attachment with a point on each end is good for making rows or for hilling up leek, onions, etc.

Like any tool there is a learning curve while your body is figuring how to move with the tool. I think after you work with it a few times you will like it.

With any cultivator, the straighter and more parallel your rows are the easier and more effective the cultivation.

[anniew]

Got any photos, especially of the attachments...thanks.

[agmantoo]

Here is what you can do with the high wheel cultivator. I got mine off the curbside where is was awaiting the trash collector. : )
http://s73.photobucket.com/albums/i237/agmantoo/garden/

[FarmboyBill]

Have always been around high wheeled cultivators. Aunt and uncle gave me my first one at age 14 thereabouts. It had a boy scout logo on the handles, so I guess they had put it together, and my aunt and uncle bought it somehow. I dont have it anymore, but I do have an iron handled one that was my Xs grandpas. But the cows stepped on the wheel and messed it up tho I fixed it the best I could, it never seemed to feel right, so Im trying to buy another wheel off a junked cultivator for it. Ive also always heard that low wheeled cultivators are better. probably sales hype but I got one at the sale last month for $4 without handles which I had at home, and have got it ready and am anxious to see if there is a difference,When I was a kid, Sears advertised the high wheeled cultivators with a disc attachment. Ive never seen one. Has anybody seen a disc attachment for a cultivator. All ive ever seen is a plow, a hoe schovel reversable, a 5 or 8 tined weeder with curved rods, and a 5 tined weeder, with a blade on the reversable side. Ive also heard that they had planters for them, something which ive never seen also.