[AT] spring tooth harrows

[szabelski at wildblue.net]

When I first got our Cub, it came with a plow, cultivator, grader blade, mowing deck, two sickle bars, three spring tooths, and an assortment of extra parts and adapters. In the fall I would plow our garden to turn the soil over, then in the spring I would use the spring tooths to break up the soil. The spring tooths are three foot wide and can be ganged together or used individually. I would set them at a shallow depth and break up the surface top, then I would set them deeper in two more steps and repeat the tilling, We have heavy clay here and it did a good job of breaking it up and leveling.

Now that I have the H, I bought a rotary tiller and use it to break up the soil in the spring. The spring tooths are now sitting on the side of the property and won’t see any use unless I’m doing some leveling in the yard.

Carl
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From: John Hall <jtchall at nc.rr.com>
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Sent: Mon, 04 May 2020 23:25:45 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: [AT] spring tooth harrows

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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