I have been wondering about this old piece of farm equipment for years. It is on our place in the foothills of Northern California.
I just got this from a friend. Is it a cultivator? Horse drawn? Haven't been able to find this one online anywhere. Any ideas? Wondering what it is worth as well.
This appears to be a horse-drawn chisel plow, used to rip through dirt to loosen it without turning it over or pulverizing it (in other words, it leaves top debris/nutrients in place). Please see this listing for possible value: bid.delozierauctions.com/
This is a Spring Tooth Harrow that could be pulled by a tractor or a draft animal such as horse, mule, or oxen. This machine is pulled over plowed soil as the last stage before planting. The curved tines can be adjusted as far as depth into the soil, by means of the handle. The tines further break up clods of soil, and level it out for an even surface to plant in. I found two like yours on a tractor equipment site, listed for sale for $50.00 each.
This is not a cultivator, this is a harrow (often called a set of harrows in a plurale tantum sense). Look how the teeth are located. "Harrows differ from cultivators in that they disturb the whole surface of the soil, such as to prepare a seedbed, instead of disturbing only narrow trails that skirt crop rows (to kill weeds).
There are four general types of harrows: disc harrows, tine harrows (including spring-tooth harrows, drag harrows, and spike harrows), chain harrows, and chain-disk harrows. Harrows were originally drawn by draft animals, such as horses, mules, or oxen, or in some times and places by manual labourers. In modern practice they are almost always tractor-mounted implements, either trailed after the tractor by a drawbar or mounted on the three-point hitch." en.wikipedia.org/
You have Vintage Horse Drawn Spring Tooth Harrow. www.pinterest.com/
Several of them are connected and drawn across the field. Your harrows were drawn by horses like here: betweenourselvesandourland.wordpress.../
You can also use a tractor www.tractorbynet.com/
The price is about $21-125 anyandallauctions.com/
Does anyone know what this old farm equipment is?
Please help me identify this! How old is it and what was this used for? I found it completely buried in my backyard while digging a pond last year. It has (pitch) forks on the back and I believe we have the seat, if it should be attached to a heavy duty metal shaft and hitch point. There are fields attached to my property so I'm sure it was used here! I would love to know more.
This appears to be a type of cultivator that would have been pulled by tractor or draught animal. You can see the chain-drive mechanism attached to the wheel shaft, so as the cultivator was pulled, the wheels moved the chain-drive for the cultivating tines...your "pitchforks", that would dig into the soil and loosen and break up the clods of dirt for planting.
What type of equipment is this and is it worth money?
Can anyone tell me who manufactured this plow clevis and type of plow; walk/sit behind? Any information would be much appreciated.
McCormick Deering could be the manufacturer. This plow clevis looks to be for a horse drawn plow, most likely a walk behind plow.
I found this the other day while exploring a rural property we recently purchased. The area is in the Lee River/Lac Du Bonnet municipality in Manitoba, Canada. We were told by the former owner that part of the property at one time was used for farming. They had not explored much of the 10 acres over the years so I knew there may be things left in the forest by the original homesteaders. I have absolutely no knowledge with farm equipment, past or present. 
It's a large machine and the photo that shows the dark metal "forks" is only part of that piece of the machine. These forks are on a long piece of metal, at least 3 feet in length and laid flat on frame of some sort. It is hard to really provide anything more specific as the machine is sunk into the ground quite a bit and is covered in leafs, dirt and branches. I didn't have the amount of time I wished to really investigate this find as there had been reports of bears roaming and I had gone into the bush unprepared should I encounter any wildlife. Any help would be much appreciated.
It looks like a sort of threshing machine. One photo shows the triangle-shaped cutting "teeth" that would obviously cut down the plants. Another photo shows the threshing part, that would beat down the plants to the ground after the teeth cut the stems/stalks. It is quite old, seeing those large all metal wheels. It would have been pulled by draught animals or a tractor, with another person sitting in the seat to control the machine.
I see three types of antique machinery , of what I can tell, it looks like a Hay cutter/cultivator, tractor and grader. Most of this looks like a tractor pieces with machinery attachments.
