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What type of harrow?

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Ralph

03-06-2004 17:45:17

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What are the different types of harrows--disk, spring tooth, spike, chain, used for? What type should I use for my soil--a sand-clay mix.

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Ralph

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Leroy

03-08-2004 18:38:11

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Re: What type of harrow? in reply to Ralph, 03-06-2004 17:45:17

Disc with cultipacker or spike tooth or both first time, possibly disc with spring tooth followed with spike tooth next time, and final preperation spring tooth with spike tooth for final work and leveal, good farm had all of them as there are all different conditions that make for a lot of different combinations dependant on conditions, possibly pull a spring tooth behind a field cultivator as well and to complete the line you also need a cultimulcher

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jhill52

03-07-2004 16:23:00

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Re: What type of harrow? in reply to Ralph, 03-06-2004 17:45:17

here in Michigan a spring tooth is used on heavier clay type soils. the spring type action breaks up clods and leaves then on the surface. A spike is used on lighter ground to smooth out the seed bead. Both are no longer used on on larger farms. replaced by a field cultivator with a spike or rolling basket behind.

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Rick

03-07-2004 05:26:38

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Re: What type of harrow? in reply to Ralph, 03-06-2004 17:45:17

Ralph; Just for your info I have all four types here for sale,don't need anymore changeing operation, 25ft spike,26ft chain,disc harrow and regular drag harrow sections. Also multcher harrow.319-257-6764 as my computer is acting up.

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So.IL.Farmer

03-06-2004 19:22:39

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Re: What type of harrow? in reply to Ralph, 03-06-2004 17:45:17

I have never used a spring tooth harrow.But I do have and use a spike tooth harrow.It gets used every spring.After I clean up from feeding the cows and horses all winter.I disc and reseed the areas using my spike tooth harrow to work the seed in.Sometimes I also use the harrow in the garden to level and smooth it after plowing.Our garden is too small to use my disc on.

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riverbend

03-06-2004 19:15:25

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Re: What type of harrow? in reply to Ralph, 03-06-2004 17:45:17

It depends what you want to do with the harrow. There is a newer style harrow that has long flexible tines. It is used to kill weed seeds that have germinated, but have not yet emerged.

Spring tooths are used to pull out weeds with rhyzomes like quack grass. They have a different action than a disk which tends to bury weeds.

You have a sandy clay soil ?

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SAm in NS

03-07-2004 04:59:48

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Re: Re: What type of harrow? in reply to riverbend, 03-06-2004 19:15:25

What do you mean by rhyzomes and what is quack grass? Thanks, SAm in NS

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riverbend

03-07-2004 07:14:40

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Re: Re: Re: What type of harrow? in reply to SAm in NS, 03-07-2004 04:59:48

Rhyzome is a misspelling of rhizome. Quack grass or couch (agropyron repens) is a noxious perennial weed that spreads by rhizomes and seeds. It makes a dense patch that crowds out all the other weeds. A rhizome is an underground stem - it looks like a root. There are joints in the rhizome where the roots grow and where a new plant can start.

To kill it you have to mow it a couple times when it is trying to set seed and then pull up the weakened rhizomes with a field cultivator or spring tooth and dry them out.

Cows will eat it as hay and hogs will dig up the rhizomes and eat them. Quack was brought in by the railroads to hold the banks. Now it all over Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, northern Iowa, n. Ill., n. Ind., n. Ohio, etc., but my weed book shows it mysteriously stopping at the Canadian border....

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RayP(MI)

03-07-2004 17:31:57

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Re: Re: Re: Re: What type of harrow? in reply to riverbend, 03-07-2004 07:14:40

riverbend - you forgot to include a whole stream of cusswords in your definition of quackgrass. The stuff is a major nuisance. impossible to get rid of - will take over whole fields. Will destroy and choke out other crops. I've even seen the rhizomes grow right through potatoes and carrots!

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riverbend

03-07-2004 19:16:36

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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: What type of harrow? in reply to RayP(MI), 03-07-2004 17:31:57

It's Sunday.

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kyhayman

03-06-2004 18:07:24

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Re: What type of harrow? in reply to Ralph, 03-06-2004 17:45:17

A lot depends on what is used locally.As much custom as anything, though each has its place. My question to you is what are you wanting to accomplish by harrowing, then maybe when can help you find which is best for you.

Here, you only find 3 kinds of harrows, disc harrows (for cutting plowed ground into a fine tilth to plant or transplant crops into). Usually used here pulling an iron or wooden drag to help level and pulverize the soil; Chain (for scattering manure); and bog (for rough tillage similar to plowing). Never even seen a spike or spring tooth except in pictures.

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