Building a drag/harrow and comments welcome

[Rford]

Here's a couple showing it working on less trashy ground after I'd flipped it over. Much nicer .

 

[Egon]

Center picture; what's the purpose of dragging?

 

[Rford]

These are food plots that are old pasture originally tilled using a 3 pt tiller. I am trying to use the field cultivator now instead. That leaves the surface too rough, furrowed, for planting clover, alfalfa, turnips etc. that are supposed to be planted on a smooth, clean surface and then cultipacked. The dragging gives me that surface.

If I was planting corn or beans by broadcasting I think it would work to use the field cultivator, broadcast, and then drag to cover.

I think I'll be able to use the cultivator and the drag at the same time rather than separately. Or the tiller and the drag although the tiller leaves a better surface. With the tiller I would till with the packer attached, then seed, then roll it again. Works great on small seeds.

 

[Egon]

Go get a diamond harrow. It'll do what you want.

 

[HCJtractor]

Here's some photos. When I first put this to work it grabbed a bunch of dirt and grass so I flipped it over thinking I might have it "upside down." I see the original builder had it this way but for me it picked too much trash. When I have a cleaner plot I'll try it the other way. Don't know how many photos I can load.

I find that sometimes going faster works better, as it collects less trash. It tends to bounce more which drops the collected trash. So often I pull mine with a truck, going faster than i go in a tractor, circling the food plot making multiple passes. Often i have a buddy follow me pulling the drag as I'm disking ahead of him. I even tow it around the property with my truck smoothing the roads. Try it with a vehicle.

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[Rford]

I'll give it a try...makes sense. Since this was the first outing and I was using the least expensive chains and connectors I could buy, I was being careful lest something gave way. But it all seemed solid. I used my Jeep to pull the cultipacker so this would be similar. Although I think using the tractor/cultivator/drag combo will work good too.