A Level Field

   / A Level Field #11  
Well, since everyone is sharing their homemade rigs I'll tell you what I use. It started out just like Eddies log harrow but it was an old 6x6 I found. But, my plots are small and it would not make tight turns plus it tended to wander from side to side. So, one day I just rolled it up like a carpet. So you basically have several layers of chain link fence wrapped around a 6x6. I wired it together and now just drag it this way. I works very well and turns tigher too.

I also noticed that the info about my disk says that it is built strong enough (I hope) to pull a harrow behind it. I'm done disking this spring but next fall I may try to rig it so that I can pull it behind my disk. It will need to be able to hand back far enough not to get tangled in the disks but close enough so that it will come off the ground when I left the disk. Even then, I suspect I'll have to be careful to prevent tangling when lowering the disk back down.

Of course it would only be used on the last pass.

I'll post pics if I ever make this work.
 
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If it's sharing time, I'm going to use 3 logs 7' or 8' long, chained together, laid on a piece of cyclone (chain link) fence.
I tend to overdo or over-think some things.:eek:
 
   / A Level Field #13  
Dana,

I understand about over thinking these things, but in this case, I don't see how you will gain anything with more then one log. The key to the log drag is the log being big enough to work as a plow on high spots and to be able to push dirt forward to fill in the low areas.

It wont level a field, but it will make it allot smoother. I've tried and tired, but my log just isn't big enough to move enough dirt to remove a real high area. For those, I use my FEL or backhoe and dig them away. Then the log drag is awesome at smoothing it out.

More logs wont do anything for pushing the dirt, but having the largest, heaviest one that your tractor can pull will.

My neighbor tried to build one out of channel iron. The idea was that the front of the iron would break off the high spots and spread the dirt back to the the rest of a frame that he welded up. Unfortunately, it was too big and if part of it lifted up, it didn't do anything.

A length of railroad track would work great, as will some I beams or just about any heavy iron with sharp edges. My other drag is a pair of oversize forks for a very large forklift. Each fork is over 300 pounds. I can pull them with my 35 tractor on solid, dry clay, but if I hit anything soft, I'm not moving. With my 80hp backhoe, I can pull it through just about anything. It's heavy, but it does a great jog at smoothing out my roads.

Eddie
 
   / A Level Field #14  
I would rent a rear tiller; then a landscape rake with guage wheels. A Harley power rake would be the ultimate to finish with after the landscape rake , it would be as level as you want it and smooth.
 
   / A Level Field #15  
Fellas, I've never gotten smooth in one step.... disk/harrow in one direction, then at an angle... let it rain and melt down.... disk/harrow more shallow... maybe at 2 or three different angles.... let rain melt things down.. if that isn't smooth enough for you...you are too pickey!
 
 

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