john-deere-boy Posted March 22, 2010 Share Posted March 22, 2010 hey diorama people just needing help with harrows i am wondering how to mak esome harrows for my models and im asking for some help tah Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powerrabbit Posted March 22, 2010 Share Posted March 22, 2010 If you mean zig-zag type harrows, very difficult I would say. The best way would be to build the lattice type frame from flat brass strips and solder together and then drill a tiny hole where each cross and solder in a wire 'pin' for the tines and it's possible. You would have to solder 2 hooks on the front of each section of the drags be it 1, 2 or 3-lap drags and then make a towing 'pole' with corresponding chains, 3 links probably, fitted to the pole with an eye for each to hitch each section of the drags to and 2 eyes about a 3rd in from each end of the front of the pole to take 2 long rods with an eye ring at each end, one end to link to the pole, the other ends connected with another ring to atach the towing chain to the tractor. I bought a 3-lap set of drags off eBay a couple of years ago that had been built like this but was minus the front pole rods and eyes, which I made myself. I'll post up a picture if I can find them in the pile. If you want to go more modern and make folding 3-point-hitch drags there would be a bit more involved as you would have to construct a tubular 3 section frame, probably from small bore copper pipe, like car brake pipe, then you just suspend your drag sections under the frame with 3 link chains, 2 each side and 2 in the front and rear of each section as in the 'real' thing the sections need to move around. I've often thought of making a set of these myself as the sections from a set of Lone Star drags lend themselves perfectly for this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archbarch Posted March 23, 2010 Share Posted March 23, 2010 no advice here only its ironic that the simplest of implements is the most difficult to make in miniature form. Another piece of useless imformation but we always refferred to the towing pole as the Swingle tree. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powerrabbit Posted March 23, 2010 Share Posted March 23, 2010 Here are the set of 5-lap drag harrows I got from eBay a couple of years ago. I don't know who made them but they did'nt know how to connect the sections to the pole or how to make the tractor towing rods so having used sets like this in real life I made these bits myself, the silver bits. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powerrabbit Posted March 23, 2010 Share Posted March 23, 2010 I myself have never seen any of this specific type other than those Lone Star ones. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MJB1 Posted March 24, 2010 Share Posted March 24, 2010 i converted a set a while back Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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