Farmers call them chisel plows, as differentiated from a moldboard plow. A true cultivator is for shallow weeding, not deep ripping.
I've bought four implements that way and you can certainly get one heck of a deal on stuff.
Unfortunately, I don't live in a farm-dense area. I am kind of an outlier. I check FB marketplace and CL all the time, but that's basically what I have to work with.
The manufacturer calls it an "All-Purpose plow"!
We likely live within 100 miles of each other.
I have that same chain harrow. I was thinking of doing that with the Cultivator.
hipping isn’t an issue. When I bought my plow from EA in NC, they shipped it to me in NM though FedEx freight. It arrived at their local freight depot strapped to a pallet and I had to go pick it up. They loaded it into my truck and I unloaded it with my pallet forks. I remember freight costs only being a little over $100.
It will takeover passes with the plow first because the rippers do have some distance between them.
The place in PA that has the FC 9T cultivator is $425 shipping and the NC place is $485
I have an offset hydraulic flail mower and a rotary cutter and they're very different animals. I would say that the rotary cutter is a one-trick pony whereas the flail is more versatile and more maneuverable. The flail will leave a better finish than the rotary cutter too, but ground speed with a flail can be slower.
I was looking at the woodmax 78. I’m currently cutting 10+ acres biweekly on a z turn cuz if I go any longer the fields will be too long for the z turn. Figured with the flail I could let them go longer and free up a little time for other tasks.
