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Question on a Spring Tooth Drag

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SW MI Dale

08-15-2003 04:18:05




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Last spring I purchased an old (ancient) two-section spring tooth drag. After the seller had finished dragging the unit out of the weeds and welding on patches for the missing frame sections he told me he didn�t have an �evener� for the drag. The drag seemed to pull behind my tractor o.k. when I used it last spring with just a rope run between the eyes on the drag sections.

Since I�m basically clueless when it comes to farm equipment I�d appreciate any information you could give me as to; What�s a drag evener? What does one look like? Do I need one?

Thanks in advance for any help/advice you can give me.

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Thank you!!! from SW MI D

08-15-2003 12:32:33




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 Re: Question on a Spring Tooth Drag in reply to SW MI Dale, 08-15-2003 04:18:05  
I want to thank you all for the great information. I am especially grateful for the safety tips. I am hoping that my playing at farming will be an enjoyable life activity, not a life ending one. I honestly hadn�t thought about the potential dangers involved with what I was doing.



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okla/kans Bill

08-15-2003 06:09:42




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 Re: Question on a Spring Tooth Drag in reply to SW MI Dale, 08-15-2003 04:18:05  

dangit I didnt finish. Clamp the V like I said, a foot from your rear whee, BUT LEAVE ENOUGH TO GO TO THE DRAWBAR CLEVIS, AND LET YOUR DRAWBAR SWING FREE FROM SIDE TO SIDE



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Okla/kans Bill

08-15-2003 06:03:53




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 Re: Question on a Spring Tooth Drag in reply to SW MI Dale, 08-15-2003 04:18:05  

Was the sellers name Haney?? As hard as a good spring tooth harrow pulls, and if he had to weld it yup, you had better be looking for another real soon, as that one will only be good for parts. Get the same make so the parts might interchange. Yes, you need an evener. Its nthing to make. Space your sections out say 4in away from each other, side by side. take a 2 by six or 8 and drill holes in the upper middle of the board slightly away from the edge near the harrow in line with your eyelets on the harrow. Next in between them, deill one hole each closer to the edge near the harrow. For a 2 section harrow, that shld be 6 holes, Might make it 7 if you put the last holes inbetween the eyelets, giving you a center line of pull. Next get some 3/8ths cable and 8 clamps. cut anc cable the harrow eyelets to the holes in line with them, then cable the hitch to the tractor wioth the other 2 or 3 holes. NOTE. take your tractor and turn it at a 90% next to yur harrow. Run your cable enough so that the V from the 2 or 3 points on the harrow end a foot from your rear tire nearest the harrow. Clamp it at that point and your done. This will let you turn sharp and not have the cable climbing up the rear tire and bringing the harrow up with it, sothing thats happened to ALOT of young people, when they was young.

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paul

08-15-2003 06:00:54




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 Re: Question on a Spring Tooth Drag in reply to SW MI Dale, 08-15-2003 04:18:05  
You can use one section as you are, but how are you using 2 sections that way????? Sure hope you didn't pay much.....

Anyhow, the evener has 2 jobs:

1. Hits the big lumps of dirt & breaks them up, or 'evens' the lumps a bit.

2. Hold the drag sections in place, and attach the 'hitch' which is usually just a chain.

They can be metal, can be wood. On a 2 section, either is fine, which do you like working with?

A 2x6 the full length of the drag, with 4 U shaped metal bits bolted around one edge to line up with the hooks coming off the front of your drag sections, and a pair of U shaped metal bits centered on each drag section pointed to the front for the chain hitch is all you need. Hook it all together & you have an evener.

Easy to weld out of a stout pipe as well. I could send you a pic of a manufatured one, altho it's deep in the grass right now....

Be careful on the hitch, it is easy to turn to short & hit the chain with a rear tire, bringing the harrow up on top of you.

--->Paul

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Nebraska Cowman

08-15-2003 04:36:55




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 Re: Question on a Spring Tooth Drag in reply to SW MI Dale, 08-15-2003 04:18:05  
maybe not. Usually if you have the drag set very deep it will tend to fold up in the middle. You just need to fix a stick (evener) like a 2x6 timber long enough to reach both "eyes" there were hooks on the evener to attach the drag but you can use pieces of chain. Then just use another piece of chain to form a V to go to the tractor clevis.



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