What's this?

[skidoo]

Can anyone tell me what this is and what I could use it for?

 

[MicroPilot]

Cultivator? It's hard to see with all the brush.

 

[Grand_Pooba]

Looks like a drag.

 

[bruceatlam]

That's an old spring tooth harrow. Normally used after plowing to work the ground prior to planting.

 

[Mighty Dodge]

Looks like a spring tooth harrow to me.

M.D.

 

[Sackett2]

Can anyone tell me what this is and what I could use it for?

i like the fact the we can find something in the brush and the first things in our minds it "How can I use this with my tractor?"

 

[LBrown59]

i like the fact the we can find something in the brush and the first things in our minds it "How can I use this with my tractor?"

i found my spike harrow in the brush 37 yers ago used it one time and put it away in the carport where it's been ever sense.

 

[skidoo]

Here is another view.

What would you do with it? What would it do compared to a disk harrow?

 

[schmism]

Here is another view.

What would you do with it? What would it do compared to a disk harrow?

till dirt. does basicly the same thing as a disc just older version.

if memory servers from previous discussions you need about 5hp per tooth to pull it at full depth

 

[bruceatlam]

Here is another view.

What would you do with it? What would it do compared to a disk harrow?

My father used to use the spring tooth harrow on fall plowing -- by the next spring, the fall plowing had hardened up and wasn't so easy to disk -- the disk wanted to bounce along the top of the fall plowing. We would first use the spring tooth and then disk the fall plowing. The spring tooth was much better at breaking up the fall plowing.

Spring plowing was much softer and we would just disk that before we planted. FWIW -------