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[tmiller]

Today i went exploring through a old barn and found this. the owner said take it so i hauled it away.
A couple of questions however,
i know there is more and i pan to go looking for the rest but
Do i have it hooked up right? with the loops at the frount?
Does anyone know who made it? and when its from?

Thanks Taylor

I was also thinking of welding a 3pt hitch on it.

 

[Bird]

It's been about 56 years ago (plus or minus a couple) when I spent some time with an uncle plowing big fields prior to planting wheat in northern Oklahoma. He had two Case tractors with the hand clutches, each tractor was pulling a two bottom moldboard (we called'em turning plows) and then "harrows" like that were being pulled on chains behind the plows.

 

[ToadHill]

If the geared half moon piece with the L shaped bar does the same thing on this unit that it did on an old plow I had, it should be in the front and is used to raise and lower the teeth to change the penetration into the soil.

 

[Ordite]

tmiller,

You are pulling the harrow in the proper direction. In the pictures, the lever which adjusts the angle of the harrow teeth is set so the teeth are actually pitched slightly forward. When in use, the teeth are usually set to a pitch with the tips at a rearward angle. (teeth would run over clods of soil rather than dig into the soil)

When I was growing up in the fifties, my Dad had a harrow with four sections similar to what you have shown. The hitch was a long pipe with the harrow sections hooked side by side along the pipe. The pipe was pulled from the center with additional steel rods running to the tractor hitch. We often planted oats in the spring with a broadcast seeder and then harrowed the field to cover the seed. Sometimes we pulled one section of harrow behind a plow but most often we harrowed the entire field a day or two later after the turned over soil had dryed to some extent. We pulled the 20 ft. harrow with a JD "B" tractor and I enjoyed this job more than any, as you were able to cover a considerable amount of ground in a short time compared to plowing a field with a two bottom plow.

As for brand of manufacturer, I have no idea what brand our harrow was or what your's is. For some reason most harrows that I have observed have no indication of manufacturer. The name was probably originally painted on but harrows seem to lose their paint in a short time.

 

[Ordite]

tmiller,

Looks like you have a Ford 8N that's in nice condition. Enjoyed the picture. When I was 12 years old, our neighbor purchased a new tractor very similar to yours. My Dad and him worked together stacking alfalfa hay. I had a lot of opportunity to run the "new" tractor that summer and loved every minute of it.