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Pull-Type Toolbar For ATV'S
"It's a lot easier to use than 3-pt. mounted equipment," says Darin Hubscher of Swan River, Manitoba, about his new pull-type ATV toolbar that comes equipped with a cultivator but can also be equipped with a box scraper, disk, potato digger, and a variety of other implements.
The 2-wheeled rig hitches to the ATV with a drop-in pin and plug-in wire and is raised or lowered by an electric actuator that operates off the ATV's battery.
Hubscher's 4-ft. wide cultivator has 7 shanks and is equipped with a spring-loaded harrow. It's perfect for cultivating in shelterbelts and gardens.
A 4-ft. wide box scraper can be mounted on the back row of shanks and a pair of potato hiller moldboards can be attached to the two center shanks. Also available is a 4-ft. tandem disk, potato digger, lawn aerator, and 2-spool barbed-wire dispenser. The implement can also be used for weeding between rows in a garden by removing the center shank and straddling the unit over the row.
"It's very cost effective," says Hubscher. "A 3-pt. hitch alone can cost as much as this unit, and it ties up the ATV suspension system which causes the ATV to ride hard. Also, a 3-pt. is designed only for a particular ATV brand so if you sell your ATV and buy a different brand you'll have to sell the 3-pt., too. And, on rough ground a 3-pt. mounted implement can jump out of the ground whereas a pull-type attachment follows the contour of the ground."
Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Quadivator, Inc., Box 218, Swan River, Manitoba, Canada R0L 1Z0 (ph 204 734-5868; fax 5865) or Swisher Mower & Machine Co., Box 67, Warrensburg, Mo. 64093 (ph 800 222-8183; fax 816 747-8650).


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1998 - Volume #22, Issue #1