I built me an ATV cultipacker
 

I built this over the last couple week in preparation for fall deer planting. Im not sure who here has ever farmed or used one but they are AMAZING for establishing a great seed bed and make some awesome food plots.

Anyways, its 12" corrugated pipe filled with concrete. 1.25" axle housing permanently inside and 1" axle going through it. Its removable with ubolts for greasing and maintenance. Ill likely add some pillar block bearings in the future. I built and welded everything with my new MIG, love that thing.




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Stinky, that's a thing of beauty. How did you find the center of the pipe so there's no wobble while towing it? I agree on migs being a nice easy all around welding machine. Is your's flux wire feed only or can you use gas also?
Damn, that's a sweet looking rig. I wish I had the land to use and the skills to make things like you do.

Thanks alot brother I appreciate it. I cut out plywood inserts for the concrete stage of the build and drilled the holes dead center. They were screwed in with deck screws through the plastic pipe. Once dry I removed the plywood as its no longer needed.


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There is also 6" pieces of rebar welded across it inside the concrete to help keep it from ever breaking loose. The "rack" on top was for added rigidity but also to use if I want to add weight. Total it weighs about 350-400lbs but I can always throw sacks of seed/fertilizer on there or ratchet strap a log or weights to the top as I do with my disc.



It works really well, I tilled and cultipacked my garden last weekend.

Nice fabrication!

stink, we used a rig similar when sprigging golf courses. had a set of disc in front, then a hopper basket for the sprigs, the a drum roller to pack them in.

nice job!

Looks great Stink!

You know of course you automatically tripled the value by painting it green right?

;-) on the paintjob. JDGreen i$ money.. BUT - I have found that wasp don't like Blue. I buy International Blue Rustoleum by the gallon and keep it around just in case I get rangled into a project. Love the work. How do you find the time?

Very nice Stink!!

Just think....You could weld some rebar to that angle iron then flip the thing over and have a helluva drag tine.....

Wish we had a packer like that. We still haulin around a pallet with four sand bags on it!!!!

Weld up a tank made to fit the weight rack. Put in a 1" fill and a large (2-3") drain pipe. This way you can vary the weight of the rig by the amount of water you add to the tank, and when you are done just drain the water. No more lifting or removing heavy sacks or whatever to add or subtract weight.

Thanks for the kind words guys.


Destroyer, Ive got two plastic drums for just such a situation. A 30 and a 55 gallon. Going to try it as is but take the 30 in case. If I need it I can use my pump setup I use for spraying to fill it in the creek. This was two weeks ago at the hunting property spraying herbicide.




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Nice job on that StinkMan:clap:

Not much of a farmer so I will ask. What is the purpose of a cultipacker?

Basically it makes a nice firm seed bed, helps with erosion and soil to seed contact. I spray my fields with glyphosphate (roundup) about 3 weeks before planting. Come back planting day and disc, spread fertilizer, seed (wheat oats, rye, winter peas, etc) ... then cultipack. After that spread your clover and walk away.

......and hope for rain:sun:

Yep. I ALWAYS plant by the weather and not the calender when it comes to food plots. Hit it perfect this year like years past, front coming in and it got a soaking the next day then another about a week later. Last year I had beautiful plots for the opening of bow season, when alot of folks are just getting seed in the ground around here.

Cool man..... I tried to get the clover down last week after our fields were tilled but the ground was soaked. Im sure the clover would pop right up but we cant put any vehicles on it in the state its in now. Im headin out there Wed to get a sit in and I'll check it again. I typically want it in no later than OCT 1st.....Ours were real pretty last year as well. Didnt get much attention till Xmas but they definitely held last years Xmas party in my food plot, haha!!

Sounds good. I experimented with one small shady woods plot this year with clover early. I planted it alone the last week of august. Its coming up good, may need a spray for weeds at some point but so far so good. I love trying new things when it comes to growing stuff whther in my garden, grow room or in the woods. It doesnt always work out but everytime you learn something new.

I hear ya on that, love to experiment with that stuff. Hell my clover looked good up until Aug with 90+deg heat. I was shocked!!

What kind of selective herbicide do you use on clover? I havent pulled the trigger on whitetail institute's hi-dollar herbicides yet. I did want to try Triflurilin and/or Dimension to see if that would work but havent yet...

Clethodim. Some clover specifically white will tolerate low dosages of 2-4D in my experience also. i have a mix of Durana and Crimson. I top mow mine when it goes to seed early summer and it keeps on making. Sometimes without replanting for a few years. Depending on weather conditions obviously.

Awesome man I'll check into that. That Imperial did really well for us so I think Im gonna stick with it....

Oi, I'm not a farmer, so sometimes you guys are speaking a foreign language. I understand all the chatter about the various chemicals and such, but exactly why are you planting clover in the first place? :beer:

Deer LOVE it and its a great source of year round food and nutrition.

Ok, that explains a lot. My back yard has a LOT of clover. I'm reluctant to cut it since it's a treasure trove for the local honey bees, so I always leave about a 10' swath nearest the woods uncut. And during the time it's growing we always have 4-6 deer in our back yard eating the stuff. Since no one around here is allowed to shoot a weapon within city limits, the deer are safe so they don't spook all that fast. Beautiful creatures, and between them and the wild turkey flocks our backyards are regular highways for the animals. Had a black bear in the back yard a few days ago, which makes us all a little nervous, but it wandered off and hasn't been seen since. (I keep my Marlin .35 near the back door)