Shank implements are good at ripping things up. Chisel plow does a lot, a field cultivator is actually pretty light. I suspect you are in the south where they use an in between machine that is pretty aggressive but not a heavy chisel plow?
Anyhow, after a shank machine rips up something like sod it can be pretty lumpy. More passes with the shank machine just move the lumps around.
A disk would now cut the lumps down smaller, pack the ground a bit to level.
Or a harrow or drag would go over the top and roll some of the lumps smaller, break them up. Dad would put a heavy log chain on the harrow to make it do more, more weight.
The disk or harrow will work better or worse depending on how moist the lumps are, if your soil is clay, loam, or sand, and so forth. There can be a good timing and poor timing on this as far as moisture of the lumps, my clay dirt can set up hard and dry like bricks, but we usually get a lot of rain and the next rain helps soften them up.
Then after a rain, the field cultivator will break up the dirt again.
Sorry for the long winded answer, it seems like a simple question but so much in farming depends on the local conditions......
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