Chain harrow......Worth buying??

Anonymous-0 · Apr 10, 2010

Hey folks,
Think it's time to upgrade a little for the sake of my bones and my quad.Not to mention the looks I get when I drive between pastures with my harrow concoction....

Anyway, what I have now is two of the fields (30"x40") like is on this setup chained together lengthwise that I drag around (2 1/2 ft swath).

Ran across this thing that is 4x6ft and about 140 pounds. Thinking I have something a little more practical to haul, use, and store and save plenty of time, fuel, and wear on me and the quad.

Any ideas????

Dave

mazemeister · Apr 10, 2010

well... what are you using it for? we have a 12' wide version of the lower picture for "dragging off" potatoes- knocking down the hill formed by the planter before they come up. does a nice job of flexing to form to the shape of the row. one thing to remember- don't ever get that chain harrow tangled up with itself; there's a fun way to kill an afternoon.

Anonymous-0 · Apr 10, 2010

Just dragging horse pastures to break up piles andsmooth out high traffic areas. Just used the heavy ones to smooth out some pretty rough ruts and I'll keep them around for that, but the chain harrow will be straight pasture work.

Dave

usetob · Apr 10, 2010

your on track, works great on pastures

JD Seller · Apr 10, 2010

These chain harrows are great tools for spreading manure piles in pastures. I used to sell the Fuerst Harrows like these and they actually had long teeth on one side and short teeth on the other. So you could control how aggressive they where.

hoosier boy · Apr 10, 2010

Dave - I have a 3 sction chain harrow, guess its 15 ft. Pulls easily with the DC Case. Use it every year to drag about 50 acres of pasture cow pies. Works great, time to get it done here in South Indiana, you want to scatter them when their moist and before the grass starts growing.

Anonymous-0 · Apr 10, 2010

thanks folks...
Guess I'll go pick one up this week. Could have it delivered but can save a bunch by picking it up and have an opportunity to gawk at all kinds of goodies in a big farm/fleet type store.

Dave

Ron in Nebr · Apr 11, 2010

We had one like in your second pic for awhile. Worked pretty good, but keep a close eye on it. They seem to wear pretty fast at the metal on metal spots, and if a peice lets go or one of those front "J" hooks comes undone, the "V" shape sections spread out and make a mess of things to the point where it's hard to get it all back together.

Remember those old puzzle things that the two peices would separate only if you had them just so? These are the same way going back together, and if parts are bent(which they will be if they get drug very far after they come apart) it's darn near impossible.

But whey they're right they do a very good job. Ours was about 20 foot wide and got used a LOT, which may explain why things wore out.

Kirk Grau · Apr 11, 2010

Hi Dave,

We have an 8'x8' chain harrow like that. Pretty handy to have around. I drag it tines up behind the mower when I do pastures and it does a great job breaking up the piles.

Tines down works really well on the arena to soften it up and pull weeds that get started. Try to do that weekly.

As somebody said don't get it folded on itself, although a small one like that might be hard to get tangled on itself. Check weight, I use my loader to move it around. Not sure you want to be picking up even that small one very often. You can find some with a frame for the 3-point hitch, but they get a bit pricier. I have toyed with fabricating some sort of frame to move it around, but the loader works fine as long as I keep it slow.

Kirk

bc · Apr 11, 2010

You might look for an old spring tooth as well. I found an old chain drag one for $50. Works good for a drag and I can adjust the teeth to not cut in at all or cut as deep as I want. A rubber tire one would be better.

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