What's this?

[skidoo]

Can anyone tell me what this is and what I could use it for?

 

[MicroPilot]

Cultivator? It's hard to see with all the brush.

 

[Grand_Pooba]

Looks like a drag.

 

[bruceatlam]

That's an old spring tooth harrow. Normally used after plowing to work the ground prior to planting.

 

[Mighty Dodge]

Looks like a spring tooth harrow to me.

M.D.

 

[Sackett2]

Can anyone tell me what this is and what I could use it for?

i like the fact the we can find something in the brush and the first things in our minds it "How can I use this with my tractor?"

 

[LBrown59]

i like the fact the we can find something in the brush and the first things in our minds it "How can I use this with my tractor?"

i found my spike harrow in the brush 37 yers ago used it one time and put it away in the carport where it's been ever sense.

 

[skidoo]

Here is another view.

What would you do with it? What would it do compared to a disk harrow?

 

[schmism]

Here is another view.

What would you do with it? What would it do compared to a disk harrow?

till dirt. does basicly the same thing as a disc just older version.

if memory servers from previous discussions you need about 5hp per tooth to pull it at full depth

 

[bruceatlam]

Here is another view.

What would you do with it? What would it do compared to a disk harrow?

My father used to use the spring tooth harrow on fall plowing -- by the next spring, the fall plowing had hardened up and wasn't so easy to disk -- the disk wanted to bounce along the top of the fall plowing. We would first use the spring tooth and then disk the fall plowing. The spring tooth was much better at breaking up the fall plowing.

Spring plowing was much softer and we would just disk that before we planted. FWIW -------

 

[herringchoker]

Around here we call that a spring tooth harrow. I took the teeth off an old horse-drawn model that had been in our family for 3 generations (the frame was toast) and mounted them on an angle iron to make a tool bar harrow. It works great for breaking up the soil. When I was a kid (in more than just mind), first we ploughed, then used the disc harrow, then the spring tooth to till the soil.

 

[Taylortractornut]

Its a spring tooth harrow like others said, I had a friend of mines dad in high school had found one on an old place they boughtwhile cleaning up. It was about 8 feet wide but a tree had mushed the frame in the past. he was about to scrap it which shocked me. The maThe dad told me it wasnt any thing but scrap then I made a bet that I could make a handy tool out of it. They were cleaning up with an old Jubilee Ford and had a time with the roots and sticks and briars. I offered to build him a 3 point mount tool bar from some tubing they had laying around. I mounted all the teeth on the bar close together making a landscape rake of sorts. I won the bet they clean an entire farm raking debris afterwards with that rake. I saw it sittnd be hind a new Newholland lastweeknd.

 

[JDeerekid]

till dirt. does basicly the same thing as a disc just older version.

if memory servers from previous discussions you need about 5hp per tooth to pull it at full depth

I dont think this is right. I have used a 10ft wide one behind my old 8n and had it dig in as far as I could get it to go and it pulled it just fine.