Box Scraper box blade as harrow?

[Diesel_Boy]

with a box blade, could the top link be shortened, the teeth dropped down as low as they will go, and used as a harrow on a small garden plot?

 

[Timber]

Yup I have done that. I did that to break up the soil before I tilled it

 

[jbrumberg]

Diesel Boy:

A poster called 3RRL used his box blade extensiely as a harrow with great results on a very large area . I have used mine like Timber. Jay

 

[ratter]

I tried something similar but my blade's teeth wouldn't go nearly low/tilted enough, even with the rippers all the way down and the link all the way short. So I think it might depend on your particular setup.

 

[greg_g]

with a box blade, could the top link be shortened, the teeth dropped down as low as they will go, and used as a harrow on a small garden plot?

Depending upon your equipment, you might have to buy a shorter toplink. I've seen Cat 1 toplinks as short as 13" (body), I think your Kubota is 14.5"

But yes - when the geometry can be made to work, the chisel points perform an excellent (albeit narrow) harrowing job.

//greg//

 

[ahvatsa]

Diesel Boy
This was an impressive documentary:
http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/...-food-plot-box-blade.html?highlight=food+plot

You can PM 3RRL a question and you'll find him to be helpful and a gentleman.
He's another example of the wonderful people on this forum.

 

[heymack]

Not having my own plow, trying to beat some rain and particularly being lazy in not wanting to drive 5 miles to a friend's house that does have one, I decided to try "plowing" a little over an acre with my 7' box blade rippers. It did a decent job of tearing up a severely packed sandy/clay pasture that had been trampled by cattle for the past 6 or 7 years. After I plowed, I used my 7 1/2' disc harrow to till the soil even further. Now several months later I have an exceptionally nice looking food plot.

Next year I'm going to deep plow this and other fields to really prepare the soil and bring up trapped nutrients.

 

[MFL]

I'm with Heymack! I've done some pasture renovation prior to a re-seeding exactly as Heymack described. If I start with my box bade set up correctly I can use the teeth to break up the hardpack to a depth of about 2.5-3 inches. I then run my small two gang disc harrow over the same space to create a pretty nice bed ready for re-seeding.

It's no tiller, but it gets me to where I need to be with the equipment I have.

 

[tensaw12]

with a box blade, could the top link be shortened, the teeth dropped down as low as they will go, and used as a harrow on a small garden plot?

I, have had pretty good results, with my tooth bar, dragging in reverse
Ray

 

[jim2210]

It worked for ripping sod to put in a food plot.

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