Drag Harrow

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rosey

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Anyone out there use a drag harrow to dress up their crusher run / gravel drive??? I'm considering getting one for my sub-cut to dress up my drive and control the weeds. What do you think of it if you use one???
 
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rosey said:
Anyone out there use a drag harrow to dress up their crusher run / gravel drive??? I'm considering getting one for my sub-cut to dress up my drive and control the weeds. What do you think of it if you use one???
Would help if you were a bit more specific. Drag harrows come in at least three different kinds commercially, more if you count the homegrown verision.

Off the top of my head I can think of chain harrow, spike tooth harrow, spring tine harrow - all of which are typically "dragged". I personally have an 8'x9' chain harrow, but I use it more for pasture maintenance than I do for roadwork.

//greg//
 
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I have a flexible tine harrow. I use it for dragging the pastures and dress up the gravel. It works great.
 
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Cottonhawk said:
I have a flexible tine harrow. I use it for dragging the pastures and dress up the gravel. It works great.
Cottonhawk.............thanks for the reply. So in your opinion a "flexable tine" harrow would be my best bet to dress up the gravel and loosten up the weeds??
 
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GregG:

Can you post a picture of your chain drag with details on chain size and the speed you drive.
 
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I have found this works for many uses ... It is not flexible but can be configured in one of 3 ways for levels of aggressiveness. Comes with an option 3ph frame also .... (not shown)

Works great in the pasture to bust up manure and grooms the arena wonderfully... from REM Manufacturing ... my local dealer carried this unit ...
 

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gordon21 said:
GregG:

Can you post a picture of your chain drag with details on chain size and the speed you drive.
No problem. By chain size, perhaps you mean diameter - I wouldn't recommend investing in anything less than 5/8" hardened chisel point steel. Keep in mind though, all this takes horsepower to pull.

Speed? Fast as I can for the conditions. You can go a lot faster over a level gravel driveway than you can pulling through pasture grass uphill.

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I like to make a couple of passes in the spring with my landscape rake. That works much like a spring harrow would. My spike tooth fills up and rides up over rocks and vegetation. It's only good for breaking up clods after plowing.
 
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I use the same as Greg and Dap (5/8" chain harrow) with the tines up for the driveway. Works great. I like these cause they can be used tines up for smoothing, tines down and back for lighter cutting/harrowing and tines down and forward for a more agressive cut. Mine is made by Rankin equipment co but there are several manufacturers out there. Mine is 6' wide and 4' long. And I can just get away with pulling it on the driveway with a 27HP sears garden tactor. The 28 Horse Diesel dosn't even know it is there:) Cost a little over $200 for just the harrow mat. I used some scrap pipe and chain to connect it to the tractor and I use the boom pole assembly from my post hole digger to lift it off the ground.
 
 
 
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