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[Spencer Yost]

Chain harrow.  Used it during reseeding a hay field and it was great.   Intended to use it in established pastures based on advice from a good friend that raised cattle.  Turned out to be less than useful and that chore seemed to be a fuel burner without benefits.  
Still have it though....

Spencer

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> On Oct 30, 2019, at 11:13 AM, szabelski at wildblue.net wrote:
> 
> We don’t have a really large garden, but we never had an issue using spring tooth harrows like you indicate.
> 
> I have three sets that I would gang together, two side by side, and the third one centered behind them. Pulled them with our 50 Cub. I got them free, along with some other free implements when I purchased our Cub.
> 
> I would set them for a shallow cut and make my first pass. Then I would set them about half way and make a second pass. Then a third pass with them set all the way down. I would drag them in multiple directions to break up the clay as much as possible.
> 
> I no longer use them since I started to amend the soil and went out and brought a three point rototiller that I put on the 42 H.
> 
> We have semi heavy to heavy clay in our area, but it never clogged the rototiller to the point where I had to stop and clean it out. The rototiller will have some clay packed in the housing, but I just clean it out when I’m done.
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Greg Hass <ghass at m3isp.com>
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> Sent: Tue, 29 Oct 2019 23:05:47 -0400 (EDT)
> Subject: [AT] New Question
> 
> Have been tossing this around for quite a while and would like list 
> opinions from those who have farmed or been around the farm.  What 
> machines or implements are you glad to see disappear or be used much 
> less than before? While I could list several the one that stands out in 
> my mind by far is the spring tooth harrow. While still being used some, 
> and while they do a real good job of leveling, they were also a real 
> pain in the a$$. Growing up into my 20's thats all we had and all they 
> did was plug.  We had probably the worst brand ever made, a Case 
> harrow.  It had 2 runners between every section and if it saw a 
> cornstalk 50 feet away it would start plugging before you got there.  In 
> either corn ground or sod the results were the same.  We always worked 
> our fields what we called double kitty corner. In a 20 acre field, we 
> would have to stop at all four corners and unplug the harrow by hand. We 
> used a IH Super C and 3 section harrow (8 foot) and if not plowing we 
> had a four section we pulled with an IH 350. In later years we bought an 
> IH 401 harrow and 3 section equaled 12 feet and pulled it with an IH 
> 504.  We though we had the world by the tail as it plugged much less but 
> that was soon to end.  That harrow did not have replaceable ends; the 
> next years model did, but my dad being stupidly cheap would not get new 
> teeth but cut an extra notch for the handle allowing it to dig deeper 
> but with the tooth being shorter, cut the clearance making it plug as 
> bad as the old Case harrow.  For the past many years we have used a 
> field cultivator which almost never plugs and I have no desire to go 
> back to a spring tooth harrow.
>       Greg Hass
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