LoneCowboy
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I remove my recomendation of the Delta Tooth harrow
go with something else.
go with something else.
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LoneCowboy said:
What happened to change your mind?
SCDolphin
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LoneCowboy:
I was going to ask you how wide and how much was your drag harrow but read your last post. Are you dissatisfied with the one from Hi Valley?? I am pulling a 10 foot run of the mill tractor supply one but I am constantly flipping it over and getting crap out of it. The one you listed "Hi Valley" looked good. Clarify...what changed your mind?
I was going to ask you how wide and how much was your drag harrow but read your last post. Are you dissatisfied with the one from Hi Valley?? I am pulling a 10 foot run of the mill tractor supply one but I am constantly flipping it over and getting crap out of it. The one you listed "Hi Valley" looked good. Clarify...what changed your mind?
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MtnViewRanch said:What happened to change your mind?
Ditto!
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LoneCowboy...Enquiring minds need to know...
LoneCowboy
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I should be a product tester, if it survives 4 weeks with me, it's good. (and I used to be a software tester, I could break anything)
Got it, did one 2 acre job with it, worked fine.
Did a 8 acre job with it, started to bend bolts on it.
did a 3rd job, within 5 acres it started losing pieces, breaking bolts. I still didn't finish (which made me not happy, having to drive another 2 hours round trip to finish it with my old harrow) and basically the entire first row came apart, pretty much every bolt is bent.
I called them up said "I'm not happy"
They are bringing me a new one later this week, so we shall see.
I think most of it is caused by not having a bar to pull from, which causes it to pull at an odd angle and then bend bolts (which then break, as they are apparantly made in Chinese lead toy factories). I told the guy that, my wife agrees, the guy is going to bring a bar, and throw that in for free. (he told me to go with no bar originally, wasn't my idea).
so, currently doing 70+ acres this week with the old style harrow (which works fine, just tangles when loading and unloading), and the new harrow will come and I shall report back.
Got it, did one 2 acre job with it, worked fine.
Did a 8 acre job with it, started to bend bolts on it.
did a 3rd job, within 5 acres it started losing pieces, breaking bolts. I still didn't finish (which made me not happy, having to drive another 2 hours round trip to finish it with my old harrow) and basically the entire first row came apart, pretty much every bolt is bent.
I called them up said "I'm not happy"
They are bringing me a new one later this week, so we shall see.
I think most of it is caused by not having a bar to pull from, which causes it to pull at an odd angle and then bend bolts (which then break, as they are apparantly made in Chinese lead toy factories). I told the guy that, my wife agrees, the guy is going to bring a bar, and throw that in for free. (he told me to go with no bar originally, wasn't my idea).
so, currently doing 70+ acres this week with the old style harrow (which works fine, just tangles when loading and unloading), and the new harrow will come and I shall report back.
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LC.. take this following comment with a smile.. it is meant as humor and certaintly not to criticize or offend you in any way. i enjoy reading about your plights with machinery and am always very thankfull at the end of the day that i don't experience 1% of the problems you do!.. now that said.. you must be related in some way to my wife. I swear she could break a 600# anvil with a rolled up newspaper in about 5 minutes. how she does it.. i don't know.. she calls it 'her gift'.
Good luck on the next one!
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Good luck on the next one!
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Soundguy said:
Trust me, i was a great software tester. really great. I could break anything. (heck, I play this trukz online game and I found a bug that a whole bunch of people were cheating with and they got banned. Just by me fidding around.)
But trucks, cars motorcycles I rarely break, I can't figure out why some of this stuff hates me.
update, they brought a new one.
Thsi one is heavy duty (and it weighs a flipping ton, had to buy chains to move it around with). I said "can my ATV pull it?" She kinda looks at it and goes "well, maybe, if it doesn't, give us a call adn we'll try again"
This one has a bar to pull from (which it totally needs, I'm sure the lack of a bar caused this whole thing), tomorrow, 12 acre job, harrow 2 times. (24 total). I'll report back. I'm bringing the old style one too, just in case. Place is "an hour away". (i think everything is an hour away, unless it's two hours away
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I used my Martens spike tooth harrow again today for about 2 hours. Overall, it worked well.
I used it on three types of surfaces:
First, I ran it on thick sod around a 1/4 mile "track" trying to get rid of years of bumps due to gophers, etc. It took about 20 trips around to get it in shape. I also put about 70lbs on the back of the harrow to keep it down better. Still a few rough spots (going to be a go-cart track for the kids). I just need a few more rows of spikes, and I need the spikes spaced better.
Second, I ran it on 1/2 acre that was fairly rough, but that was lacking as much sod. This area I had planted in clover last winter, and then mowed it regularly this summer. I went round and round for about an hour and I am happy with how smooth it is now. Again, just need more rows of spike and better spacing (two pairs of bars have the spikes in almost the same alignment).
Third, I ran it on a 1/4 acre area that I tilled this summer to get rid of construction ruts and compaction, and which bermuda has started filling in. It was fairly sandy and a half hour was more than enough to get rid of the places where my tilling caused ridges or holes. It is very nice now, but again, it was rather sandy.
As a whole, I think it won't work for about half the things I was going to use it for, but works well at the other half. I've never used the standard chain drag harrow, so I can't really do a pro/con analysis.
I used it on three types of surfaces:
First, I ran it on thick sod around a 1/4 mile "track" trying to get rid of years of bumps due to gophers, etc. It took about 20 trips around to get it in shape. I also put about 70lbs on the back of the harrow to keep it down better. Still a few rough spots (going to be a go-cart track for the kids). I just need a few more rows of spikes, and I need the spikes spaced better.
Second, I ran it on 1/2 acre that was fairly rough, but that was lacking as much sod. This area I had planted in clover last winter, and then mowed it regularly this summer. I went round and round for about an hour and I am happy with how smooth it is now. Again, just need more rows of spike and better spacing (two pairs of bars have the spikes in almost the same alignment).
Third, I ran it on a 1/4 acre area that I tilled this summer to get rid of construction ruts and compaction, and which bermuda has started filling in. It was fairly sandy and a half hour was more than enough to get rid of the places where my tilling caused ridges or holes. It is very nice now, but again, it was rather sandy.
As a whole, I think it won't work for about half the things I was going to use it for, but works well at the other half. I've never used the standard chain drag harrow, so I can't really do a pro/con analysis.