[AT] New Question

[Jim Becker]

You got it half right with "chain".  My vote goes for chain saw.  They are 
heavy, noisy, dangerous, the exhaust is usually blowing back on you, and 
they throw saw dust everywhere.  It was almost guaranteed they would have 
some sort of starting/running issue on every job.  Besides all that, they 
are impossible to run left-handed.  I know, some of you are going to say "My 
Xyz brand saw is great."  Fine if you had good luck with one.  But there has 
been somebody to say how great nearly every brand of miserable saw I have 
been around is.  Maybe some are just less terrible.

I was glad we finally cut down every black locust tree on the farm and had 
to start buying fence posts.

Jim Becker

-----Original Message----- 
From: Spencer Yost
Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2019 11:38 AM
To: Antique Tractor Email Discussion Group
Subject: Re: [AT] New Question

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>
> To: at at lists.antique-tractor.com
> 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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