when to use springtooth harrow

[Anonymous-0]

What soil conditions is springtooth best suited for.

 

[The other green guy]

After plowing

 

[Don-Wi]

Yup. After plowing. Can't have too much trash either- it'll wad up and plug the machine. Works good for prepping the seedbed right before the planter.

Donovan from Wisconsin

 

[Anonymous-0]

When you want to use a rotary hoe, and you are willing to pick up the rocks that the spring tooth harow brings up.

 

[Brendon-KS]

Years ago the springtooth harrow was a must-have implement here in wheat country. The field cultivator pretty much rendered it obsolete, though. It was used several times after plowing and disking to keep the weeds out until fall planting. Like another said, they only work well in trash-free ground. Otherwise they make a good rake. This is why everybody uses field cultivators now since they can handle a lot more residue.

 

[johns48jdb]

in north al there use to be disk harrows pulled behind disk that we called spring tooth harrows. they were shaped something like hay rake teeth. there was only 2 or 3 rows of them and were used to just level up the ground a little bit and knock dirt of of roots on plants to help make them die after being disked. i think that your talking about an implement with nothing on it but teeth.

 

[Anonymous-0]

It works great to level the field after plowing. Best to angle work to pull any dirt into the low spots. I use mine in two different directions before planting, and to just deep the weeds out.

 

[R Wyler]

I use one every year before planting wheat they are a very good tool. Yes they will act as a rake if the soil has much residue however that isn't problem if the land is either moldboard plowed and or disced a few times to chop and mulch up the residue. They are a good implement as far as I am concrned.

 

[El Toro]

We always used one before planting corn. We usually did it diagonal across the field and we used a drag behind the harrow to level it. Hal

 

[RobMD]

After disking plowed ground, we run a harrow with a cast iron pipe behind it to drag the field smooth. This is what we do in vegetable gardens.

 

[TomA in CA]

The way I learned to farm it was used to prepare a seedbed. We would moldboard plow before the end of the rainy season, spike tooth harrow to break the clods down and then springtooth in several directions to prepare the seedbed. In this way the use of a disc could be avoided. With discing moisture can be lost but a springtooth can work the ground and conserve moisture.

Tom