Push plow with disk attachment.

[Windy in Kansas]

I've never seen a push plow with a disk attachment. http://wichita.craigslist.org/grd/2688373751.html

So unique in my opinion that I'd buy it if it was local rather than having to drive after it.

The discs are small so not sure how well it would work. What they call a thatcher is of course a cultivator. Personally I don't think I would care for that "D" handle arrangement but I've read comments of others that say they are great.

[FarmboyBill]

Ive posted on here asaking about the very same thing years ago. I remember seeing them in either Sears or MW farm catalogs, But, Ive never seen one in person. I would think, If they ever were made, that they would show up sooner or later after 4yrs going to the huge sale I go to once a month, but not last Sat. TO COLD?WINDY, windy in Kans. lol. Ive seen dozs of the push plows. Ive bought those 5 schovels and took them apart and put them on handles of double schovels at various widths to cultivate between and next to rows, But ive never seen the disc.

[geo in mi]

That is unique! Never seen anything like it. Don't think it would be very practical, do you?

geo

[idigbeets]

That's a wheel hoe w/ attachments.. I've used wheel hoes with all kinds of attachments. Be prepared for a workout using those cultivator teeth and plow.

[Windy in Kansas]

I don't really think that the disk would be very practical.

My soil is sandy and I find that the push plow/wheel hoes aren't all that bad to push.

Decades ago my folks had one of those 5 tine cultivator units that instead of on a push hoe came on a handle. I really liked it. I think I may have it but it might have been sold.

They are readily available for the push hoes and could be adapted to any number of things.
http://www.agrisupply.com/-tine-cult...-plow/p/12570/

With lesser tines they are available again with handle/tool systems such as from Wolf-Garten.
http://www.wolf-garten.co.uk/index.p...999&no_cache=1
http://www.wolf-garten.org/index.php?id=641&no_cache=1

[geo in mi]

Waitaminute. Is that a double handled, or a single handled frame? A second look at the Y-Frame makes it seem like a double one. If that's the cse, it might not be antique, but rather one of those that caused the controversy a couple of years ago by the college(or was it high) school ag class that supposedly "stole" an "invention" from someone?

geo

[FarmboyBill]

I imagine it would work in sandy soil well, and dry saoil also. Might make a good hiller, or something to pull the diret away from a plant when turned around and spread out. Windy. Ive got 3 of those handles . One with the origional 5 tooth cultivator, the other 2 with double schovels at varieing widths. I want to make another with just one schovel in the middle for getting REALLY close to a plant or row.

[FarmboyBill]

IO cant imagine a push plow with a single handled frame. Its plenty to push with both handBeets, I just cultivated my small garden with a wheel hoe. 18 X 30. U right. For me at 64 that was plenty. I tried to 1/2 lap it as much as possible.

[FarmboyBill]

When I was a kid I always tried to think of my push plow haveing duel wheels and/or an engine. They have the low wheels that can be made into duels, and I have a oversize push plow with a koeler engine on it called the Iron Mule. In a fenced small garden, Its all a guy wants, and its hard to keep upright when left standing alone.

[CoonXpress]

Have always wondered about hooking one of those up behind a yard tractor, and seeing how that would do.

[FarmboyBill]

Thing I hate about them. and walking horse machinery in general, is that unless your careful, you leave tracks, and your feet can pack down the dirt around a weed that the push plow pulled and removed. It seems like, if a wheel of some demision on one side of the center line, and the impliment, say a 5 schovel at the other side of the center draw bar. That way, a guy could push the plow at the center while only cultivateing off center, and out of the way of the operators feet.

[FarmboyBill]

Anybody get Rural Heritage,. On page 20, and 105 they show tiny horses pulling a push plow converted for a horse. on page 26, they show one for sale.

[Windy in Kansas]

FBB that is quite interesting. On my sandy soil there isn't much need for horses of any size to pull the unit. With the tiny horses though it does remind me of the old photos showing women pulling plows.

[FarmboyBill]

On page 20 It looked like the tiny horses had all they could do to pull thew woman, much less the plow. I wonder what size plow they could pull in a garden. 10in?? This is OKLA. The soils sandy here too, but I still got to push, walk forward, pull back, Push, walk forward, pull back. Seems like, if I dont pull back, the dirt balls up front even with no trash in it. Pulling back, I get a running start at the slight ball I backed off of, and when I hit it, I bust it up into another slight ball when and when I stop again.

[FarmboyBill]

I wonder if they got the temperment of Shetlands? Ive always wanted a team of horses. By the time I could get them Thats about all I could handle.

[CoonXpress]

Originally Posted by Windy in Kansas

old photos showing women pulling plows.

So hard to get a wife to pull a plow anymore.