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Building a flexible tine harrow/drag

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scott

01-07-2003 17:49:48

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I'm looking for info from anyone who has shop built a pasture drag or harrow. I've seen them made from old tire chains and am interested in any info regarding putting one together in my shop. I am winter grazing my hayfields and am planning to frost seed late winter. I need one anyways to scatter manure and encourage tillering in permanent pastures, but don't want to spend $600. Thanks

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gardener

11-02-2003 21:11:05

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Re: building a flexible tine harrow/drag in reply to scott, 01-07-2003 17:49:48

I just welded a row of 3/4" x 4" rd. bars on the leading edge of a 14" x 7" x 8' I-beam, with 1.5 " sticking down into ground. ..4" apart. this breaks up the high/hard spots. The xcess which slips under and between the edges of the beam gets redistributed similar to a box scraper. I attached short chains to it directly in line with and to the outer holes of the holed drawbar I can pull it easily and then even lift it off the ground if i need to cross the lawn or driveway ashphalt. If i want to leave the surface rougher , i pull the beam from the other edge....although it tends to trap more debris. It depends on how clean the field is. For serious shaving, i add long sections of heavy metal on top in between the edges

For a lighter use such as covering handsown seed in small fluffier fields, i'm now making an attachment using the drawbar again and 2 upright posts with crossmember to the toplink. These will lift a 9'x2"x4" steel tube with 30" x 3/8 rd.coldrolled steel bars spaced each 3 inches, and angled downwards to the ground.
I'm welding 2 old spring-u-bolts on the topside of the beam to carry an optional 3" pipe full of concrete for additional down pressure. Angle adjustment is by toplink.
I expect this will also be useful for dragging weed debris off the field after cultivating twitch grass etc.

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Ron in Nebr.

01-08-2003 19:51:10

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Re: building a flexible tine harrow/drag in reply to scott, 01-07-2003 17:49:48

Around here most people use a long peice of I-beam, just short enough to pull through gates, with various things from tires to old tire snowchains to old sections of spiketoothed harrows attached to drag behind the I beam. The I-beam really busts up the manure, and has an additional benefit of smoothing out gopher mounds, etc. We're planning on building a "new" one this spring using a bunch of steel wheels off an old center-pivot irrigation system chained together. It's gonna take a pretty decent-sized tractor to pull it, but it should do the trick. In my opinion, dragging hay meadows, etc., is one of the most beneficial things a guy can do to promote good grass growth. You can almost see the meadows greening up after they've been drug.

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01-08-2003 16:21:51

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Re: building a flexible tine harrow/drag in reply to scott, 01-07-2003 17:49:48

I'm using 18" dirt-bike rear knobbies with one side wall cut out. I've got a drawbar of 2X4 with 2 tires hooked to it with the cutout side down and a third tire behind centered on the first two. We use ditch irrigation on 2.5 ft. spacng so this set-up covers one row and two 'marks' (ditches). I pull it with a four-wheeler and follow with a section of spike toothed harrow.

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