Terry - Sure, I think some pics could be arranged...
The scarifier is a scarifier bar that can be purchased separately from Landpride. It comes with a three-point-hitch on the front of it and a three-point "receiver" on the back. It's made so you can hook it up to a tractor, then put a blade or rake or whatever on behind it. I couldn't use it that way, of course, because the PTO shaft had to go through. So, I cut all the three-point-hitch stuff off the top of it, which left me with just a scarifier bar. If I had it to do over again, I'd try to find an old beat-up box scraper and cut the scarifier bar out of that.
As to function, if the ground is pretty soft, it can have a tendency to pull the tiller down a bit, but this is easily controlled with the angle of the teeth via the top link (especially if you have "top and tilt"), and by raising the scarifiers a notch. I've really never seen it want to do that to any objectionable degree but once. And it was easy to overcome. If you had to, of course, you could raise the scarifiers all the way up, but I've never seen a reason to.
When you're pulling the scarifiers through really hard ground, there's a fair bit of pressure against the top link, of course, which tends to raise the tiller out of the ground unless the top link is adjusted to the right length (again, t-n-t helps a lot here), but the pressure against the top link is still less than it would be with a box scraper, because of the tiller's added weight.
Does this answer your questions about how the scarifiers work?