garden drag

akjohnston · Mar 3, 2007

Do not need much. I am thinking of constructing some type of garden drag that will be use for aprox 1a. After plowing and disking my garden is uneven. I remember when I used a team of horses my father had a ride on drag that was constructed in a v shape with a cross member and large spikes drove through it to level the land. I am thinking of the same thing and transport it with the boom pole. Thought about crossties. Any one have any better suggestions for something simple just not able to do much work any more.
thanks

dirt clod · Mar 3, 2007

if you set your discs at a shallow angle and not running deep while traveling slow you can get pretty smooth. Otherwise a section of chain link fence with a 4x4 wood post tied to the end of it does a real good job.

Toolguy · Mar 9, 2007

A springtooth drag will work very well for you. They do a great job of breaking up clods and leveling the ground for planting. It takes 2 or 3 passes over the ground but it will get the job done. They are simple and cheap and work better than a spike tooth drag. You can find them at farm auctions and used equipment dealers. Most of the old ones were in sections that were 3' or 4' wide. The size of your tractor will determine how many you can pull. Most any good size garden tractor can pull one section, a larger tractor can pull more. It also depends on how deep you set the teeth.

bobodu · Mar 10, 2007

Love the spring harrows.Found a "C" shank harrow right before it was run over by a dozer.Going no till with my half acre garden this year and that little harrow will be perfect.

workinallthetime · Mar 11, 2007

akjohnston said:
Do not need much. I am thinking of constructing some type of garden drag that will be use for aprox 1a. After plowing and disking my garden is uneven. I remember when I used a team of horses my father had a ride on drag that was constructed in a v shape with a cross member and large spikes drove through it to level the land. I am thinking of the same thing and transport it with the boom pole. Thought about crossties. Any one have any better suggestions for something simple just not able to do much work any more.
thanks

i think i found one of those v shaped things in my dads back yard, i was wondering how i could put it to use. my dad also ran a team of horses, he said the worst mistake he ever made was selling them to buy a car, but he was born in 1932 and worked in the lead and zink mines in pitcher oklahoma and drove a mule team in the mines also. now that mine is like #3 on the epa's supperfund list to clean up "tarcreek" is the place.

Chuckanut · Mar 12, 2007

I did the Chain link fence which works well but it do not have enough weight when i was putting in my lawn.

So I took 2 pieces of 4 X 6 and lag bolted the fence under it. It work better but not as well as i wanted to. I added two 2 x 4's to the ouside of the 4 X 6's with JUST on bolt at each join. This made semi-flexible box with the chain lnke fence under it. That was almost perfect but it needed just a little more wieght, so i added 2 cement blocks in the center of the wood and it worked like a charm.

The pictures are of my last change to metal channel but the all wood one worked better.

bx23barry · Mar 12, 2007

I hokked 4 old 6"round fence posts together and looped a some old 5/8" chain three times across behind them. Works pretty good for smoothing and real good breaking up horse plops.

Coyote · Mar 13, 2007

I bought a 6' chain link gate at Home Depot for $25.00, put two 3' 2x6's on it for weight and it works great for a total of $33.00!

dirt clod said:
if you set your discs at a shallow angle and not running deep while traveling slow you can get pretty smooth. Otherwise a section of chain link fence with a 4x4 wood post tied to the end of it does a real good job.

flusher · Mar 13, 2007

akjohnston said:
Do not need much. I am thinking of constructing some type of garden drag that will be use for aprox 1a. After plowing and disking my garden is uneven. I remember when I used a team of horses my father had a ride on drag that was constructed in a v shape with a cross member and large spikes drove through it to level the land. I am thinking of the same thing and transport it with the boom pole. Thought about crossties. Any one have any better suggestions for something simple just not able to do much work any more.
thanks

Get a couple of truck tires, chain them together and drag those behind your ATV or tractor. Easy and cheap.

Soundguy · Mar 16, 2007

For a cheap and simple darg, go buy a piece of hog panel, cattle panel, or equine panel. Hog panels are about 3' x 16' and welded wire with tapered openings 16$.. cattle panel is about 4' x 16' and tapered openings. 20$, equine panel is about 52" x 16' and has 2x4 spaced openings, 50$ all are made form heavy welded wire.

You choice on materials. Get the panel, lay behind the tractor.. cut to desired width. if you use anything but the equine panel, use 2 pieces overlapped to get more 'teeth' You can weld them together, wire them together, band clamp them together our u-clamp them together. Take bolt cutters and start cutting fence sections at the edge of a 'block' and then bend them down with a big set of channellocks or similar tool. Do this all over. Now flip over,set it so the 'teeth' are swept back a bit so they won't hang up bad... hookup as a drag implement using rope, chain, cable.. etc.. whatever is on hand You can lay timbers, old fence posts, or concrete block ont he drag to add weight.

Some people also make a few rolls of any type of cheap wire fencing, and them slide a heavy fence post down the middle.. There is also the ever popular bedspring drag for the jeff foxworthy type people!

Soundguy