Cultivating season. WD45 4 row, D17 4 row, CA 2 ro
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Topic: Cultivating season. WD45 4 row, D17 4 row, CA 2 ro
Posted By: Tim_Gorge
Subject: Cultivating season. WD45 4 row, D17 4 row, CA 2 ro
Date Posted: 22 Jun 2020 at 7:37am
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Posted By: Tim_Gorge
Date Posted: 22 Jun 2020 at 7:42am
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Posted By: Tim_Gorge
Date Posted: 22 Jun 2020 at 7:49am
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Posted By: Tim_Gorge
Date Posted: 22 Jun 2020 at 7:49am
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Posted By: Tim_Gorge
Date Posted: 22 Jun 2020 at 7:50am
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Posted By: Tim_Gorge
Date Posted: 22 Jun 2020 at 7:54am
| The D17 is a series IV, the WD45 has factory power steering, and the CA is a later model with the snap couple. |
Posted By: Dave (NE)
Date Posted: 22 Jun 2020 at 8:43am
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Boy, always took so long to put those darn things on and then if you didn't have power steering, oh boy! Preferred the narrow front WD and 2 row cultivator for putting on and turning at the end rows! ------------- Do not argue with an idiot. He will drag you down to his level and beat you with experience. Mark Twain. |
Posted By: PaulB
Date Posted: 22 Jun 2020 at 9:32am
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is the CA driver a coon hunter with his headlights pointing up in the trees ??? Kinda looks like a Ford fresh off the assembly line. ------------- If it was fun to pull in LOW gear, I could have a John Deere. Real pullers don't have speed limits. If you can't make it GO... make it SHINY |
Posted By: Brian F(IL)
Date Posted: 22 Jun 2020 at 9:49am
| When my dad and uncle farmed (before the dealership) they had 4-row front mount cultivators like the one pictured on the WD-45. Had them mounted on a narrow front WD and narrow front WD-45. Neither of them had power steering. I used to ride along on the toolbox. |
Posted By: Tim_Gorge
Date Posted: 22 Jun 2020 at 9:58am
| When my grandfather switched to four row they cultivated one season with out power steering my dad said the next spring the 45 disappeared no one knew where it went then it showed back up in the yard a week later with a char Lynn pump on it. |
Posted By: Tim_Gorge
Date Posted: 22 Jun 2020 at 10:01am
It's funny that you notice the lights we were picking on him too. We just switched that ltractor to 12v system. I gave him bulbs to put in and he didn't even try to adjust them when he was done. 
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Posted By: Tim_Gorge
Date Posted: 22 Jun 2020 at 10:09am
| We had 4 of us to put it on it wasn't too bad but still a pain. But the d17 cultivator on the other hand, very nice, I can put it on myself in less than a half hour. The crane system was a brilliant upgrade. |
Posted By: john(MI)
Date Posted: 22 Jun 2020 at 10:16am
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Great pics. Thank you for posting. Brings back some good memories of many hours on the tractors. We had a C and the guy I worked for had a Farmall H, neither had power steering. I don't remember them being difficult steering. ------------- D14, D17, 5020, 612H, CASE 446 |
Posted By: Tim_Gorge
Date Posted: 22 Jun 2020 at 10:39am
| Your welcome is not everyday ya see these in working order anymore. The ca with the 2 route isn't bad at all to steer. And I've never had the pleasure of driving a 4 row anything with out power steering but my dad always said it was terible. We have a 2 row for our c as well but I can only remember 1 time it was mounted for sweet corn years ago. |
Posted By: Tim_Gorge
Date Posted: 22 Jun 2020 at 10:39am
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Posted By: Orange Day Farm
Date Posted: 23 Jun 2020 at 12:25pm
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Beautiful pictures, we run 2 row set ups on our farm, currently running a 41' C with the fully mounted 80 series cultivator. We have a 53' WD with the fully mounted 2 row cultivator which I am trying to install the side dresser fertilizer set up on. And we also have a 51' CA with a fully mounted 2 row. We are close to having all the correct brackets and hardware to mount our 2 row set up on the 37' WC as well. uploads/9251/C_2_row.jpg" rel="nofollow - uploads/9251/C_2_row.jpg uploads/9251/WD_2_row.jpg" rel="nofollow - uploads/9251/WD_2_row.jpg uploads/9251/Mounting_Fertilizer_set_up.jpg" rel="nofollow - uploads/9251/Mounting_Fertilizer_set_up.jpg ------------- Orange Day Farm Clint Worron 30' United, 37' WC, 38' B, 41' C&80 Series cultivators, IB, 51' CA, 42' WF, 49' WD,53' WD&cultivators, 57' WD45&33 Picker, D12, D15HC, 180, All Crop 60, 444 baler, etc... |
Posted By: Tim_Gorge
Date Posted: 24 Jun 2020 at 8:01am
 We just took the side dressers off the ca in the pictures. I use it to side dress our sweet corn but at 3000 pounds per acre chicken litter on 100 acres i would be at it for a month trying to run that through the side dresser hahaha. We've got 2 2 rows for a WD both missing some brackets and another ca with a 2 row mounted on it. My dad went through a thing he was just buying all the cultivators and plows he could find it seemed like. There are soooo many plows in the shed name a number of botoms and a width of an AC plow and i promise we got one. One bottom up to six.  thanks for sharing your pictures by the way its nice to see I'm not the only one running this equipment like it's 1960.
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Orange Day Farm wrote:Posted By: Orange Day Farm
Date Posted: 24 Jun 2020 at 8:13am
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What brackets are you missing for the WD / WD45? I also went through a time where I would buy all the cultivators I could get my hands on, took me five tries to get a complete cultivator set up on the C. and about five tries for the WD, every time I found a set the seller was telling me that all the parts are there, and I would correct them.....well where is this bracket, that bracket, plant guards, etc... I have parts left over in the barn from all these purchases. ------------- Orange Day Farm Clint Worron 30' United, 37' WC, 38' B, 41' C&80 Series cultivators, IB, 51' CA, 42' WF, 49' WD,53' WD&cultivators, 57' WD45&33 Picker, D12, D15HC, 180, All Crop 60, 444 baler, etc... |
Posted By: Tim_Gorge
Date Posted: 24 Jun 2020 at 9:14am
The front bracket for both. We had one 2 row for wd and a 4 row for 45 we found the back brackets on junk tractors at the bone yard and then bought the other 2 row because it had a front bracket but no rear/ center. It would be nice to find other front bracket for the 2 row not sure how much it would get used but it would be complete. |
Posted By: Bill Long
Date Posted: 24 Jun 2020 at 10:08am
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They are some outstanding pictures of cultivators-I think- we do not use any more. You know I always thought the C was a really neat cultivating tractor. Only did two rows but handled nice and easy. One time I was at the Prigel's farm in the beautiful Long Green Valley and heard a WD really talking. Figured he must be working the tractor. He was cultivating - 2 row. Mr. Prigel believed to cultivate deep. Set the cultivator as deep as he could. He felt it was better for the corn. He always did have outstanding crops. Great pictures. Brings back some outstanding memories. Good Luck! Bill Long ps: You know the WD cultivator would fit the WC. Wertz power equipment started in 1937 as Wertz Garage. Fred Wilke restored a 37 WC with a WD cultivator mounted on it for them to coumarate their roots.
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Posted By: BrianC
Date Posted: 24 Jun 2020 at 5:52pm
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Today I got to use the '48 C wide front with the two row #80 cultivator in sweet corn. Corn taller now took the draw bar off...hope it don't get lost again. At one end of rows it was tight (fence) to turn around, had to back up. That is when I wish it had power steering. I also planted more corn. Irrigated. Going to side dress some tomorrow. And mowed the church's field. So a good day playing with the stuff!
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