[AT] spring tooth harrows

[Aaron Dickinson]

Your use is the same as years past in our part of Michigan breaking up and leveling the soil. Plow, disk, drag (spring tooth harrow) was the typical order of operation for seedbed prep. Today it is rare to see a moldboard plow, chisel plows are still in use around here followed by a soil finisher which is one piece of equipment which contains multiple harrow components, disk couler, spring tines, sweeps, rolling baskets, spike tooth harrows. Then if you start talking about vertical tillage, some of that combines the whole plow, disk, drag, with one piece of equipment. Minimal till or no till doesn’t move the soil around, no breaking up or leveling required. 











From: John Hall
Sent: ‎Monday‎, ‎May‎ ‎4‎, ‎2020 ‎11‎:‎25‎ ‎PM
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For you "older" guys, why did you run spring tooth harrows? What 
implement replaced/obsoleted them? I've got one, haven't used it in 20 
years. Not sure it ever did anything but burn fuel.  When I was a 
teenager we would run a section harrow behind the offset disc harrow if 
we were trying to break up clods, level furrows, knock the dirt off 
roots, etc. Just wondering what good a spring tooth harrow was/is. Yes I 
know it will choke up in trashy ground, and pull hard if you set the 
teeth way down.

John Hall
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