Lift For Chain/Drag Harrow

[jeff9366]

BOOM POLE As Lift For Chain / Drag Harrow?

At age 69 years I do volunteer scut work in a small organic Blueberry patch, approximately 250 plants.

The 80 year old owner periodically runs a Tool Bar Cultivator and Chain Harrow (individually; not linked ) down the rows for organic weed control behind a Kubota BX.

It is too much for me to shake out debris from the Chain Harrow at the end of Blueberry rows.

The sole manufacturer of a Frame/Lift kit to convert a drag Chain Harrow to Three Point Lift is PRIEFERT. I am sure the PRIEFERT/ABI quality is good but the cost is $449 delivered, from any of several venders, for the 88 pound frame. Same price delivered to my Rural King stores for local pickup. (( Free local pickup may be available in Rural King stores closer to Texas.)) Frame does NOT include chains and other bits to suspend the Chain Harrow from the frame. Frame is just the Three Point Hitch components.

Priefert Lift for Chain Harrow Kits - PICHLB | eBay


I wonder if a Three Point Hitch Boom Pole could be used for provide Chain Harrow lift, stock or with simple modifications? Tractor is a Kubota BX with Cat 1 size Three Point Hitch
(( We have applications for a Boom Pole beside potentially lifting the Chain Harrow. ))

King Kutter 500 lbs. Lift Capacity Tractor Boom Pole

CountyLine Heavy-Duty Boom Pole - For Life Out Here Note center bracket with three attachment holes.

tractor boom pole - Google Search

I am zero as an engineer. I am hoping T-B-N readers with design/improvisation talent will help us out.

 

[Egon]

Add two short booms and you are all set.

 

[jeff9366]

EGON: I don't get it. Please expand on your suggestion.

 

[Egon]

EGON: I don't get it. Please expand on your suggestion.

[video]http://www.farm-king.com/Region-US/landscaping/drag_harrow/dh_options.php[/video]

 

[Spindifferent]

Could you disconnect it from the 3 point and then lift it with a loader configured with grab hooks? (Assuming that the BX has a loader and that the harrow is not longer than the lift height of the loader).

While more work, this may be the most economical solution.

 

[snonut]

I use a 3-point carryall from TSC hooked to a spike harrow with short chains and beam clamps. Works great

 

[MF283]

Jeff, don't see why the boom pole wouldn't work. I'm assuming your pulling harrow off the hitch?

Ronnie

 

[jeff9366]

I have sent this to travis@(Temporarily blocked due to reports of company closure), who has been helped me size several ETA implements:

"I know ETA is not producing Boom Poles at this time but consider this:

If one or two flat plates were welded to the boom pole, pre-drilled for U-bolts, it would be easy to mount/dismount a spreader pipe as wide as a Chain Harrow, with grab hooks on the ends of spreader pipe for mounting and adjusting spreader-to-Drag Harrow chain length."

 

[jeff9366]

Jeff, don't see why the boom pole wouldn't work. I'm assuming your pulling harrow off the hitch?

Yes. Pull Ring on Chain Harrow goes over trailer ball on Handi Hitch. We could easily pull the Chain Harrow from the center drawbar, rather than the Handi Hitch, freeing the Three Point Hitch for a Boom Pole.

Any suggestions on rigging?

 

[jeff9366]

Could you disconnect it from the 3 point and then lift it with a loader configured with grab hooks? (Assuming that the BX has a loader and that the harrow is not longer than the lift height of the loader).

While more work, this may be the most economical solution.

At our ages of 69 years and 80 years, backing the tractor down the rows, with the Chain Harrow attached to the FEL is not practical. Inevitably the Blueberry plants would be run over.
(( We have BB plant run over incidents with the tractor going forward, occasionally. ))

Neither of us retain the strength to lift the debris laden Chain Harrow often, to shake out detritus.