The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Smallholding => Equipment => Topic started by: Buffy the eggs layer on May 08, 2013, 07:33:37 am
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A friend kindly gave me 3 grass horrow panels that I intend to pull behind the pick up. They are the fixed ones in a diamond pattern with the vertical spike at the point where the mettal criss cross design intersects.
Can anyone post a pic of how they should link together. I am guessing a chain and then each one fixed to a bar to tow behind something.
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Any way that works for you.
Have them all chained across a bar / pole / angle iron. That in turn you chain to tow bar. Or get technical and have one in front and other 2 trailing off each corner to give total coverage.
The whole process is not rocket science, just do what works best for , vehicle, size of field, you.
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Sounds to me like you have harrows for tilling soil.......known as harrows.
Chain harrows are for use on grass.
You will achieve nothing pulling harrows around on grass.
Post a picture if you would like confirmation !
Cheers
Stu
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Thanks
I will post a pic. We tried chain harrowers last year but despite weighting them down they didnt work at shifting the moss. A friend of mine who has very sandy soil as we do uses them effectively so I thought I would give them a go.
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We have lots of moss - found that more wieght and moving slowly was a better result - also had to do it a few times in different directions. Weighing up the time effort and fuel I should have just bought something that kills moss as we still have more moss than grass.
Doing it when it was dead dry helped too.
To be fair I found a few of those panels in the field too and tried to make a harrow for the quad out of two - soon found out why a chain harrow is different - it just tore big holes in strips across the grass and made the quad use about a million litres of petrol and mangled the clutch. :)
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ooow thanks for that tip Baz. I will post a photo but I have been concidering something that just kills the moss. I just havent got round to finding out if that sort of spray is safe for sheep to graze on afterwards.
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lime is the best way of dealing with moss. have you done a ph test?
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What you need is a spring tine harrow, like the opico one much more than a chain one and variable too!
and i agree with the other post you have the wrong type they are for breaking up small clods after ploughing and grubbing.
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as kids we used to use a harrow for levelling the woodchip horse arena. that was diamond shaped with a spike. it was tied by baler twine to a metal pole and we all pulled it by hand (pony mad kids will do anything for a free ride :innocent:). it was a bout 6ft wide.