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Mikey

03-20-2001 05:38:10

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I have been feeding hay to cows on my pastures and meadows(established)...I would like to break up the manure...and even it out...I have a rotary hoe , a drag disc, and a cultipacker...would it hurt to use the rotary hoe followed by the disc and then the packer...or how is the best way to spread the manure....have established clover-orchard grass meadows and pasture...thanks

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Cliff (OR)

03-22-2001 12:49:30

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Re: Rotary Hoes on Pasture in reply to Mikey, 03-20-2001 05:38:10

I built one of those car tire pasture harrows several years ago. I use 3 rows of tires (pickup tires work good) attached with short chains to a log with eye bolts. I arranged the tires like this: ===== ===== O O O O O O .O O O O O. O O O O O O I drilled through the tires (least fun part of the project!) and used 3/8" bolts with fender washers and nyloc nuts to attach the tires to each other at their point of contact. You can make it as wide as you have tires and a gate for.
This drag (harrow or whatever) works great! I left the sidewalls on and it seems plenty aggressive for my needs. It smooths out the hoof holes, mole hills, and manure. It doesn't plug up like a chain link drag will. I saw the plan in an ag bulletin years ago and built it from memory so it might be different from the plan.

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george s

03-24-2001 09:59:18

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Re: Re: Rotary Hoes on Pasture in reply to Cliff (OR), 03-22-2001 12:49:30

Cliff, You can build it wider than the gate,just drop one chain and drag it sort of diagonally the long way

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sammy the RED

03-20-2001 18:40:02

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Re: Rotary Hoes on Pasture in reply to Mikey, 03-20-2001 05:38:10

I call them all harrows, except for the rotary hoe.

Disc Blade Harrow
Spring Tooth Drag Harrow
Spike Tooth Drag Harrow.

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paul

03-21-2001 08:41:46

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Re: Re: Rotary Hoes on Pasture in reply to sammy the RED, 03-20-2001 18:40:02

Where I live, a 'harrow' has to have teeth on it. I don't understand why a disk would have the word 'harrow' attached to it?

Many implements - chisel plow, disk, field cultivator, etc. - will have a 2 or 3 bar harrow attachment on them to level the soil behind. This would make it a 'disk with harrow attachment.'

Just the differences of where we live - try to name weeds sometime. they have 3-4 different names for each! :)

--->Paul

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rhudson

03-20-2001 13:42:07

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Re: Rotary Hoes on Pasture in reply to Mikey, 03-20-2001 05:38:10

Mikey, i saw in the farmshow mag. where a farmer used a 10 foot long 6 x 6 dragging two offset rows of 14" car tires on their sidewalls. the 6by had a 3 pt. hitch bolted to it and was acting as a tool bar. the 6 by had eye bolts through it. the first row of tires also had eye bolts and chains connecting them to the 6 by and the trailing row of tires. i was thinking of trying it using metal tubing with maybe folding wings to get a wide path. if i recall he left sidewall intact, but said that if you cut out the downward sidewalls, you could get a more aggresive drag for spreading wasted hay. (i got to learn how to use a scanner so i can try to sketch this stuff)

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To: RHudson - Check page 141

03-21-2001 10:55:46

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Re: Re: Rotary Hoes on Pasture in reply to rhudson, 03-20-2001 13:42:07

of the "Farm Show Magazine Encyclopedia Of Best Ideas Born In Farm Workshops, Volume II" for a picture/text of the "Car Tire Pasture Harrow" with folding wings. Three point hitch. Widths of 12', 18' and 24', with folding wings on the 18' and 24'. Looks like a neat idea. I've always dreamed that I would make something similar to that, but first things first. . . I just finished dragging our pastures with an old three section harrow/evener turned upside down.

Paul

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rhudson thanks

03-22-2001 07:39:32

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Re: Re: Re: Rotary Hoes on Pasture in reply to To: RHudson - Check page 141, 03-21-2001 10:55:46

thanks, i don't usually miss a chance to copy someone designs.

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F14

03-20-2001 08:27:53

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Re: Rotary Hoes on Pasture in reply to Mikey, 03-20-2001 05:38:10

A chain harrow, made out of an old piece of chainlink fence would work good. In a pinch, a set of box springs will work too. All you want to do is break up and scatter the piles, not tear up the surface of the ground.

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paul

03-20-2001 07:40:58

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Re: Rotary Hoes on Pasture in reply to Mikey, 03-20-2001 05:38:10

The word 'disc' is so dependent on where you live, I don't know what a 'drag disc' is!!! Here we have disks, harrows (drags), field cultivators.

Anyhow, I would not use what we call a disk. I would just pull stuff over the surface of the ground, like a harrow. The rotory hoe is good too I would think. Some people chain old tires together & drag that over. My pasture is under a foot of snow yet. I'd wait until things are fairly dry, & just break up the piles a little, don't need to do too much. Hard on the clovers/ legumes with too much traffic/ tillage.

--->Paul

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Mikey

03-20-2001 09:21:00

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Re: Re: Rotary Hoes on Pasture in reply to paul, 03-20-2001 07:40:58

Thanks for the input.....what I call a disc is four sections of round discs..which can be either all rolling in a straight line or sort of made into an X type ,which helps to cut better...the drag type is one which is drugg behind the tractor..some are 3-point hitch type....a harrow is a V shaped drag with iron pegs in it...or uses springs....and cultivators are small chisel pointed plows, spring loaded...which is used to cultivate between the crop rows.....if i use the disc, I would leave the disc in line ,where it would only cut a groove like a knife in the ground.no snow here , cold and windy though....thanks.....

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paul

03-20-2001 13:45:50

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Re: Re: Re: Rotary Hoes on Pasture in reply to Mikey, 03-20-2001 09:21:00

Ok, if you have an adjustable disk then rolling it in a line like you said works too. :)

Once the sod starts to green up & is firm, it doesn't hurt to knock the piles around a little. Doesn't take much tho for me anyhow.

--->Paul

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