How to build a DIY Culti-packer
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- čas přidán 4. 04. 2023
- So you want great foodplots. You've got the tools with one exception, but the cost of an implement you'll only use a few times a year keeps you from Culti-packing your seeds. Our solution- a $70 DIY culti-packer. Watch us build it...
Thanks for sharing. It serves as a starting point for community improvement. You have to be brave to post the first version build on CZcams. There are always ways to improve these ideas and there any many with more experience but they only make negative comments, not videos to share their knowledge.
Thanks for your interest. I agree that there are 1) many ways to improve it. and 2) we seem in society to focus on negative. Getting ready to make my mod to the unit and hopefully put out a video, getting ready for spring food plot season.
I built mine 3 years ago and it works like a charm , hiwever I used a steel axle sleave and I used bearings , couldnt be happier
Fantastic idea. Thanks for sharing.
your welcome. I look forward to shooting some more videos of it
Great idea!!
Cool idea think I'll try this. 1k for these is just too much
I like this A LOT. I know what my dad and I are building this weekend. Thanks for the idea and plans.
Hope it worked out for you. I have thoroughly enjoyed using it.
@@davidt-the-mortgage-farmer works great. We did a lot of food plots
Well done. Thanks!
Would love to see some footage of this in action!
I would like to see that as well.
Second that.
I’ll get some footage up in my next video on “Foodplots”. It worked great… for $70. In wet ground, the dirt packed in the grooves a tad. I’ll be modifying it. But all in all. The foodplots look awesome thanks to the cultipacking (and moisture).
czcams.com/video/-qdS7SK_gog/video.htmlsi=9DBHywcR062qgC4P Here is the update showing some of the action.
I agree. I watched the entire video and nothing at the end .
I'm out. Not coming back.
Very nice well done
I just completed at 10ft one i used rebar through the shaft and welded on and i used normal greasable bearings just because it is so heavy i luckily have a maunre pit that i could stand on the wall and pour the concrete into. The neighbors were confused for awhile lol untill i took it out just drilled a small hole in the concrete floor slipped the shaft in with the end cap and cement bolted a bracket in to hold everything level. Definitely heavy probably 1200 lbs. Cant wait to use it i usually just broadcast my seed and get okay results obviously cultipacking it in will help alot plus it will break up all the big chunks...that i usually puck up in the sickle blades of my haybine...
wow, 10 ft. Nice. I will say that my germination rate went thru the roof just by using the cultipacker…. My turnips and clover were lush and green thru the whole deer season.
genius idea
Why doesn't the axle walk in the PVC ? And if you just tightened the u bolt down on the axle, how does the axle turn? I would think it would be pretty solid.
PVC is centered in the concrete and the "Axle" (piece of 1.75" conduit) spins within the pvc. Axle is affixed to the frame with 2 U bolts. I made two "bushings" out of the same pvc that are about an inch long each... they occupy the slack space between the end of the concrete and the frame. Over many yrs, and many hrs of use... I assume the pvc will degrade. But using the cultipacker for a couple hrs each yr... It'll last a LONG time.
Did you pre-mix the concrete? Or fill it dry and water it as you went, like a post hole?
Pre mixed then poured in . 1-that many bags would be hard to get the water mixed. 2-It was very very heavy.
Great DIY project on the cheap. IM on the lookout for some culvert/drain pipe. Any issues since the build? I looked for a video of the unit in use, but didnt see it. Do you add any oil or grease when you slid the axle pipe in? Curious if you think thats needed. Would like to see a follow up video on the mod you talked about to keep the mud from packig up too. Again...these are the best projects. When you can create something on the cheap that will last and be a 10th the cost of a commercially availalbe unit.
You can get some at a hardware store looks like a 8 inch pipe can get 4 6 8 easy enough cut to length for most places
check out the updated video for a few peeks at it working. On,y issue is it packs in when the ground is really wet, but I have a fix and will shoot that video soon. It’s a 1.5 inch piece of pvc and a 1.25 inch piece of conduit as the axle. No grease, although you could do that. If it wears out in 5 yrs, I’ll rebuild it. If you have access to to the cultipacker plates, that would be an upgrade. I didn’t. So I used what I had and the food plots were a lot better germination this past yr.
czcams.com/video/-qdS7SK_gog/video.htmlsi=1Uqvl987hQpFicii. Here’s the update video.
What prevents the axle from spinning out one side?
If this helps. Its a 1.75" piece of PVC. Inside that sleeve, is a 1.5" piece of conduit. On EACH end... I have a U bolt that is affixed to the metal conduit, which spins inside the PVC. It has worked remarkably well and I used it approximately 2 hrs in yr one. For $70, its one of my best "projects". foodplots came up Super nice.
No pillow bearings, just a u-bolt? No support arm going from the tongue to the frame? That MIGHT make a single pass around the field before something gives. Also, if the wheels don't move independently, it ain't a cultipacker. That thing is rigid and will bounce over high spots instead of helping to smooth them out. What you've made is a ribbed lawn roller. That will be somewhat useful on ground which is already pretty smooth, but it will not perform the functions normally associated with a cultipacker. On the plus side, it's not going to last very long anyway, so you'll get a chance to take another stab at it real soon.
Jason, thx for the comment. 1) the frame is strong. No issue at all. 2) I only use it to get seed into the ground on "already soft, disked ground". 3) its certainly not perfect but hence the term DIY... I used what I had, put $70 in it and have cultipacked 2.5 acres so far. It shows "no wear". Again thx for the reply. For $70, I can rebuild it 14 times before I've spent what a cultipacker would have cost me. I'll have a video coming out soon showing it in action.
It,s not like it,s going to be used for 12hrs a day for years. It will work fust fine.
@@winterhorse290 - Nope, it'll get used for an hour or two at a time, over rough terrain, getting jerked around by a quad or tractor...and it'll break. I've been putting in food plots and helping folks put in theirs for more than a decade now, so when I tell ya that thing is not going to really work as a cultipacker, and that tongue isn't going to last, I'm not just speculatin'. ;)
We’ll, so far it has about an hour and 2.5 acres of foodplots and it is in great shape. But again, Jason… thanks for being so open and candid with your opinions.
@@davidt-the-mortgage-farmer - Just out of curiosity, have you ever had the pleasure of using a real cultipacker?
Boy you sure made it cheaper by painting it Kaboda orange
You could have made it worth a lot more by painting it John Deere green
Lol I hear you… @kdb991. Funny story… I grew up on a tobacco farm and we had JD, Ford, and farmalls. My first real job out of the field, was at the local JD dealer assembling and delivering mowers, tractors, chainsaws, etc…. I love JD. But when I bought my tractor for my small hunting farm, I needed convenience, and I wanted “universal tractor accessory” ability. Love my Kubota. Would equally love a JD but the kubota was 1)close by, 2) in my price range, and 3) Available.
@@davidt-the-mortgage-farmer I bleed green
@@kdb991 me too. might be a slightly different shade. I love JD, especially the AG stuff... When it comes to my small hunting farm, though... it just worked out to be orange. As a 9 yr old in the tobacco fields, I could only push the clutch in on a Ford.. so I ran the ford 3000. As I got older- I spent my time on the JD 4250. Love them.