Implements mounted side-by-side

[Laapa]

Anybody recognize this?

I have seen in the past pictures of "hitches" or "toolcarriers" or whatever you call them that allows implements to be monted side by side - creating a wide implement of two smaller ones.
I have seen some small balers and hay equippment arranged this way but also tillage machinery - mainly discs.

A local big farmer uses two 9 m Vaderstad seedbedcultivators arranges this way (after a 400 hp rebuildt Steiger) but he buildt the system himself.

I think such arrangements have been professionally manufactured and used for Discs. I have seen it in old advetisments in "Implement and Tractor" magazine in the 1970's but also on modern implements being used in Europe (Germany I think).

Does anybody know if such dual-imlement-hitches are being manufactured today and where I maight be able to find info on them?

[eppie]

Lately, there was a picture in 'Boerderij' of some guy with a toolcarrier, he hung his two hay tedders in it. Working with 19 meter !! His 80 hp Renault could handle it, but it needed all the 80 hp it had !!

Vicon is doing this with their mowers. They make a 3ph behind the pull type mower, and hang a standard mower behind it. With a mower in the front linkage, it can reach working widths of about 9 meter.

You can find it via the Kverneland website, i suppose, because Vicon is taken over by Kverneland.

[Jon B]

John Deere always had a dual hitch available for their 750 no-till drills. I know of one guy who had 3 sets of it, meaning that he had 6 no-till drills, and he doubled them up.

I would suspect that with the advent of the no-till air seeders, that market is all but done.

Neigbour has a dual hitch on a set of CIH 5100 drills. It worked really good, and it was cheap too.

You don't see too much of it anywhere else, unless its some home made outfit. I've heard of guys pairing up grain buggys, pulling a harvester behind a SP harvester, pairing up square balers etc. But I don't know anything off the top of my head in terms of manufacturers

[Red_Painter]

Since we have used crawler tractors in the Palouse for decades, multiple hitches have been used since the forties. Farmers here built almost all the multiple hitches with their shop welders. First multiple hitches were cables for multiple rod weeders or wood framed hitches for two or more drills and later tandem plows or discs usually using heavy duty steel pipe of some sort. The problem was moving. Everything had to be broken apart (except plows) and loaded onto truck usin a loading dock which every farm here had at one time. My dad used a four bottom IH plow followed by separate three bottom Oliver behind a TD40 in his younger days. We still use one tandem set with the IH trip beam plow. John Deere used to market a tandem plow hitch in the 70's to pull behind their early four wheel drive tractors. Waldon in Oklahoma used to build a multiple hitch sold with Case equipment. It had a three sided "C" shape which allowed the second implement to be folded with drawbar adjustments behind the first implement and then pulled out off of the road for more side by side working position though the second implement always tagged behind to the left of the front implement. Before folding drills took off here in the last decade(way after other areas) most drills were IH end wheel 510's. Farmers mounted a folding A frame with a wheel on end on each side on the front drill. which could be folded down in the field and have another drill attatched to each side for a 36 foot width and folded up for moving. A local manufacturer built a frame on each drill with little wheels that were raised in the field but put down lifting all drills at once so one could attatch tractor on one end and pull them sideways down the road. I think folding implements manufactured in the factory have replaced these old implement multiple hitches.

[Red_Painter]

Just found this picture from this old subject that illustrates the drill multiple hitch with transport wheels in up position for drilling, but could be lowered to raise drills and with the tractor rehitched on one end, the drills moving sideways could be pulled down the road while field hitch was folded up. Unfortunately, this method of moving came into practice as air seeders were replacing older style drills. I don't know who built them. Many manufacturers had them. See www.farmphoto.com/homestead/message.asp?mid=15908

[HPP]

Hey Laapa!
What´s up? Your implements too small for your new Deere now?
See you at Svenstorp next wednesday?

[Laapa]

There is a great picture of what I am talking about on the BigBud picture gallery at www.bigtractorpower.com of a BigBud KT525 pulling two 40 foot discs in tandem.

Hey HPP.
Our implements are just about the right size. I am just doing some research for my own amusement. We got the JD7710, the IH1455 and the IH3588 (2+2) working hard together to create a decent seedbed of the concrete hard dried out clay-fields around Ängelholm.
It is striking what a good job the 2+2 is doing. If the concept reapear on Magnum, we might be presuaded to go red again.
We will take a day off to go to Svenstorp though. It was a while since the "Day of the Sugar Beet" show was in Sweden last time.