What is a weed destroyer?

Heard some old timers talking about a tool called a weed destroyer was told it was similar to a spring tooth drag. I think John Deere had one called a 324. Does anyone have any more info or pictures of one of these??

You can look at some parts drawings at the link below.

Dunno if that will be helpful?
Deere 324

This is my weed destroyer

I think it was just a name Deere put on a drag. We have 2 old 12ft drags dad said were weed destroyers. I was under the understanding they just had one handle/lever to set them rather than a lever/handle set each section. I could never see a difference between them other than the number of levers. We used to pull the two of them with the Cat years ago 40's maybe 50's up untill the mid 80's was 24 ft wide when put beside each other.

They are good rock pulleruppers.

The spring tooth harrow would pull the rocks up, the drag harrow would roll the rocks to clean off the dirt so a nice clean rock was laying on top ready to be hand picked. There is also a mechanical means of picking up these rocks in the fall. Its called a flex head.

Did you pull them through plowed ground like a typical springtooth drag? Or was it across unplowed ground??

Ferguson built one called Weeder. Three point-Spring teeth.

We pulled the spring tooth through mellow plowed ground here in Iowa. In hard ground the spring teeth would pull back and just scratch on top of the ground. The spring tooth was the last implement pulled across the field to make it smooth for the planter. A week to two weeks after the corn was planted and before the corn plant had peeked up out of the ground we would pull the drag harrow across the field to kill any freshly germinated weeds that hadn't taken root yet. This was before herbicides. Some farmers pulled the drag across the field at an angle to the corn rows to level the field a little better and drag the soil into low spots in the row to bury the weeds in the low spots the harrow teeth did not touch. If the farmer ran the drag at an angle when the corn was just starting to peek through the heavy tractor killed or stunted the corn in the wheel tracks and you could see the tractor tracks in the emerged field until mid July when the corn was tall. after the corn was up we would cultivate, and cultivate, and cultivate some more to keep the weeds killed until the corn had grown tall enough to shade the row. And those were the good old days. We would cultivate and bale hay, cultivate and bale and on and on it went.

Oh, I forgot one more thing. Before the corn was cultivated the first time we would walk the field to pick up the ricks the plow, spring tooth and drag would bring to the top. What fun it was!

This post was edited by fixerupper on 12/19/2021 at 08:24 am.

Dad's spring tooth was on two rubber wheels with a trip row like the old plows. I think it was 6' and the SC couldn't handle it as good as the JD 2-16 plow. And it was very good at dispering quack grass nice and evenly, not killing it. Leo

SV. That is one awesome farm dog. Need to post more pics of your hard working friend. Wingnut

Thanks hes getting awful old funny how time flies