Drag Harrow Lift?

Jason Hubner · Feb 29, 2012

I plan to pull a set of 8ft Oliver drag harrows with my Farmall 504 this spring and was thinking of using a boom pole on the 3pth with a spreader bar to lift the harrows when i turn around or if i want to cross some ground without scuffing it up. Do any of you guys think there would be any problems with this set up? Is it a bad idea? Thanks

retired farmer · Feb 29, 2012

I tried something like that years ago. Didn't work very well. Gave up on the idea and bought a chain harrow.

Anonymous-0 · Feb 29, 2012

If you search the internet, for flexible tine harrow, you will see that some are sold that have a 3 point frame. Good thing, to copy from...

RayP(MI) · Feb 29, 2012

I have a 3point spring tooth harrow. Has a rod going to the back of each section, frpm the top of the 3 pt mount. Works great.

504 · Feb 29, 2012

We always used a 4 section with a log chain for a hitch, make two passes around the field and that will mark where to turn a round with out getting into a fence. when you are done drag out the end rows again and that will smooth out any humps from turning. When crossing something you do not want to rough up, just lay the teeth down, it really wont hurt anything. I always harrowed crosswise of a field on the last pass, to level out and it made it easier to see the planter markers

Jason Hubner · Mar 1, 2012

It's a disk harrow.

maxwell99 · Mar 1, 2012

If you could build something like the attached picture, it should work fine.

looks like it has a 3 pt hitch and the frame would carry the harrow.

might give it a try.

looks fairly simple to build

hard to see in the picture, but it has cables or chains from the center lift point back to the corners of the frame to provide the weight distribution.

if you had one and i lived close by, i would want to borrow it from time to time.

maxwell99 · Mar 1, 2012

jason,

i did not read you reply, that its a disk harrow.

my plan would not work for that,

but still, it would be nice to have a 3pt hitch frame for your spike harrow.

dhamps10 · Mar 1, 2012

Works great for a single gang horse disk. I don't know about a double, but would think it would work.
Dennis

Texasmark1 · Mar 11, 2012

Go to the site for "Small Farm Innovations". Look up harrows and in that section you see a pic similar to this harrow with a front and rear 2 7/8" pipe with the fingers mounted between.

They show a lifter for their harrows for about $500 and this is a production lift, so in answer to this thread's question, "will it work", it must.

I have one of those harrows ordered and will receive it by the end of he month. I had a 3 pt hay spear made out of 2 7/8 pipe and the main spear was sharpened axle out of an 18 wheeler.

While waiting, I just finished making a lift using that hay spike. I just put two short pieces of pipe.....long enough to get the front pipe behind the tractor tires, and slid another 2 7/8 over the spear extending out about 6'. I put hooks on all three places to hang chain and I will have a chain from each short piece of pipe to the front harrow pipe, and on the rear, I will take one piece of chain and attach it to the rear harrow pipe in 2 places for stability and hang the center of it on my long pipe hook. Should work just fine.

If interested I can figure out how to show you a pic.

Mark

Tx Jim · Mar 11, 2012

(quoted from post at 21:04:15 02/29/12) I plan to pull a set of 8ft Oliver drag harrows with my Farmall 504 this spring and was thinking of using a boom pole on the 3pth with a spreader bar to lift the harrows when i turn around or if i want to cross some ground without scuffing it up. Do any of you guys think there would be any problems with this set up? Is it a bad idea? Thanks

Most drag disk harrows I've seen have the capability to set the disk gangs straight so they just roll similar to steel wheels and leave tiny marks in soil.

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