# Cutting through thick steel

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cutting-through-thick-steel/653200>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [March 17, 2013, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cutting-through-thick-steel/653200 "2013-03-17T21:44:25Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Fubaya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c2a13f/32.png) [@Fubaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fubaya)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2013, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cutting-through-thick-steel/653200/21 "2013-03-19T00:38:21Z")

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Judging from some photos, I bet it’s an Allis Chalmers cultivator. [Here](http://www.ytmag.com/cgi-bin/viewit.cgi?bd=ac&th=135766) is an AC tractor with part of a cultivator mounted underneath it. You can tell the tube and brackets seem to be the same as yours. [Here](http://www.allischalmers.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=26862&title=mounted-cultivators-pictures) (fourth from bottom) is what looks like a larger version of yours being towed behind a tractor. You could probably find an Allis Chalmers or tractor forum to get more info and a possible price.

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**Author:** ![Dag\_Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@Dag\_Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dag_Otto)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2013, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cutting-through-thick-steel/653200/22 "2013-03-19T00:52:49Z")

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C’mon, this is the Dope. The OP just wanted to post a few cat photos, without having to come out and say he was just posting cat photos.

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**Author:** ![moriah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b2d939/32.png) [@moriah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moriah)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2013, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cutting-through-thick-steel/653200/23 "2013-03-19T01:45:58Z")

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> [@Fubaya](#):
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> Judging from some photos, I bet it’s an Allis Chalmers cultivator.

Nope, it’s the base for this:

[![](http://www.dgath.com/misc/grid_ball.jpg) ](http://www.dgath.com/misc/grid_ball.jpg)

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**Author:** ![Fubaya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c2a13f/32.png) [@Fubaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fubaya)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2013, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cutting-through-thick-steel/653200/24 "2013-03-19T04:41:18Z")

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> [@moriah](#):
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> Nope, it’s the base for this:
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> [http://www.dgath.com/misc/grid\_ball.jpg](http://www.dgath.com/misc/grid_ball.jpg)

Probably used to have an under-the-wheel treadmill attached too.

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**Author:** ![Deereman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Deereman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Deereman)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2013, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cutting-through-thick-steel/653200/25 "2013-03-19T12:03:17Z")

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I’m with the others that suggest posting it for sale, you might get a few takers. I can’t identify the brand, but you could always ask on one of the many antique farm equipment websites out there.

[www.ytmag.com](http://www.ytmag.com) (Yesterdays Tractors Magazine Online)

happens to be one of my favorite general sites. Heck, if it was a cultivator I wanted I’d offer to buy!

If you REALLY needed it gone, I’d suggest a cutting torch, though you probably don’t have that handy or portable…

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