Arena drag, soil pulverizer

[jmarotz]

First a special thanks to members on this forum, Eddie P and toxic.
Last year my arena was hard as a rock so I used my box blade with the scarifiers and all I did was make trenches every foot with baseball size clods covering the ground. With a few modifications this is what I came up with.
Weighted every piece of metal while building and came up with 120 lbs per foot. I do have some railroad track that I could lay on if I need more weight.
The harrow points (29) were $2.15 apiece and the I beam cost me $36 dollars, other that the cost of paint I had all the other material no hand.

 

[bucmeister]

That looks mighty fine. Need to build a bigger version for myself to condition food plots.

 

[WarrenF]

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[GaryBDavis]

Very nice work. How about some action shots?

 

[bx24]

I am ignorant on this point. I understand what the roller does on a pulverizer, but what does the "pipe roller" do on this? The same thing?

Just curious, educate me!

 

[Reg]

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Not if you are a "Build it Yourself" hobbyist (-:

 

[kthompson]

I am ignorant on this point. I understand what the roller does on a pulverizer, but what does the "pipe roller" do on this? The same thing?

Just curious, educate me!

I wondered also but for a different reason probably. They are used on field cultivators but all I have ever seen used flat metal and most are, so to speak, twisted (the full rolling basket is not each piece of metal). I wondered how well the round stock does compared to the flat metal used in all rolling baskets I have seen. It does not seem it would pick up the small clods and held break them as I believe the flat metal does.

Harrow attachment crop performance comparison


As to the harrow you made, it really looks good. If the pipe does not give the effect you think it should, you may wish to look at flat metal and test that. kt

 

[jmarotz]

kthompson,

Let me start by saying the the round pipe does a better job job than I expected, so much so that I made brackets on my s-tine field cultivator so that I could use it on both pieces of equipment.
In the past (when I farmed for a living) a few neighbors got together, each with a field cultivator with basket harrows, the herringbone style out preformed the other styles when the soil was extremely fine and made it finer and looked pretty. There was a model that had 1" x 3/8" flat bar with a serrated edge and did the best job with dry hard clods. There was also a model using round pipe like I used which IMO was the best compromise of the models we tested, above average clod breakage and not fining the soil to much. This was not a scientific test, just a visual test among neighbors. We did not test if there was a difference in chemical incorporation, just final soil preparation.

 

[kthompson]

You may be totally right on the pipe being better. The flat metal will throw the dry dirt many feet as you said. I guess a lot of that would be affected by the weight of the basket with the pipe or total down force from weight and springs. As to incorporation of chemicals, never thought about the basket doing that, felt it was the plows. They sure do leave a good looking piece of ground if run right. Made my disking look right good. kt