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Beins you said what you just said, I bought a cone harrow last year and was wondering how to set it up. Don't have the number handy. 11' wide, medium to heavy duty chassis. Blades are about 22 inches diameter. When you look at the cone, you (I) would think that it would cut best if the leading edge of the cone was aligned with the direction of travel. That way it could slice the sod like a coulter does on a moldboard plow. This would require a very deep V of the front gangs. The main boom has no holes for the boom pins for this aggressive a V. This would also throw the cut material off to the side as the rear of the cone would be roughly 45 degrees off centerline. No biggie, just different than a regular blade. If you look at the pins to set the booms (gangs) they are in about the same spot as they are on harrows with normally shaped discs. Setting up the booms like that (shallow V ) means that the incoming dirt hits the back of the cone and for first tillage of heavy clay, I don't see this as the best way to get the blade to cut the sod. Where did you run yours and what did you do with it.....break fresh ground, like in plowing or did you follow a moldboard plow and use it as a cultivator? What type soil did you run in? We don't use moldboards down here as the heavy clay just gums them up. Have to have a rolling disc so we use a disc harrow as primary plowing implement or a thing called a "one way" which is a string of rolling discs on a boom also, but there is a tail wheel to counter balance it and it only throws dirt "one way". Thanks, Mark
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