Light Land Posted December 18, 2006 Share Posted December 18, 2006 I was leaning on one of them today while waiting for some sheep to walk past. : There is also a gray fergie inter row hoe in the yard for that mater and it looks just like the red on in the pic above. Like the other guys have said this old badger was used "back in the day" to bust open ploughing after winter a few times before a set of zig zag harrows were pulled over the paddock 3 or 4 times to kill weeds. My boss often says... "god dad worked the sh!t out of the ground before round up came along" His farther often says..."The boys going to f@ck this place with that de-stoner and rotory hoe" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allis8550 Posted December 18, 2006 Share Posted December 18, 2006 We used to have one of these, used it for working down root ground , would give you a deeper tilth than a set of discs or normal harrows. That was in the days before power harrows. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dwross Posted December 18, 2006 Share Posted December 18, 2006 About 25-30 yers ago we used to use them on stubbles with even spaced tines. Then alter tine spacing for inter row work on potatoes and swedes. David Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyB Posted December 18, 2006 Share Posted December 18, 2006 They still have a place in todays farming. The old stuff is always the best, sometimes during drilling, modern kit is too aggressive or too heavy for a spring seedbed. I have a number of growers who will use something like this drag to level out over wintered ploughing. Useing their lightest tractors leaving it level but rough/ridged enough to dry out if needed. Even had a 6000 acre grower fabricating a 6m one like that because he couldn't buy one! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pingu Posted December 20, 2006 Share Posted December 20, 2006 spring tined cultivator, can be placed straight into stubble after a subsoil, or after discing to break the ground up more. but it simply breaks the ground up like matty a said! a proccess not using a plough.......... the tines break up weeds (like matty said ) but can make rows ready for the bed prep........ they can help with drainage but not a great deal as they dont reach the pan............. You learned that at college didnt you as we pretty much were told the exact same things :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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